{"id":624992,"date":"2026-09-23T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624992\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:10:18","slug":"george-lucas-had-planned-to-make-three-more-star-wars-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624992\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas had planned to make three more Star Wars movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">George Lucas had planned to make three more Star Wars movies before he decided to retire.<br \/>During a recent interview on CBS Sunday Morning, the creator of the legendary franchise revealed his original intention to helm additional instalments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His wife and business partner Mellody Hobson also took part in the interview, and recalled how the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles &#8220;nearly killed him&#8221; due to the &#8220;level of detail&#8221; he poured into the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Opening the museum became the catalyst behind Lucas&#8217; decision to retire from directing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m 82, so there is a limit&#8230;.&#8221; Lucas explained as he discussed launching the museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When I did this, I decided to retire from making movies, which was a big deal because I had three more Star Wars to make,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" aria-description=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cover_media_us_video_962\/721b6c9bd14292061678f86db775363e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Lucas continued to focus his energy on the museum, he realised it would compromise his filmmaking plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I realised that I was running out of time, and I did want to make this museum, and I&#8217;d spent a lot of time developing digital technology for the movie business,&#8221; he shared. &#8220;You know, all art depends on technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lucas directed four Stars Wars films, with the first instalment Star Wars: Episode IV &#8211; A New Hope released in 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He then co-wrote and produced the second and third movies in the trilogy, with Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand taking on directing duties respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lucas returned to helm the prequel trilogy, comprising Star Wars: Episode I &#8211; The Phantom Menace in 1999, 2002&#8217;s Star Wars: Episode II &#8211; Attack of the Clones, followed by Star Wars: Episode III &#8211; Revenge of the Sith in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Lucas had planned to make three more Star Wars movies before he decided to retire.During a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58963,146,44648,85,46,57481,281126,6377],"class_list":["post-624992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cbs-sunday-morning","tag-entertainment","tag-george-lucas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art","tag-mellody-hobson","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}