{"id":857417,"date":"2026-09-23T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857417\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:20:10","slug":"george-lucas-was-going-to-make-3-more-star-wars-movies-before-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857417\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Was Going to Make 3 More Star Wars Movies Before Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGeorge Lucas<\/a>, the mind behind the legendary Star Wars<\/a> franchise, revealed that he intended to helm three more movies, but decided to retire from directing instead after 2005\u2019s Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent interview with Norah O\u2019Donnell on CBS Sunday Morning<\/a>, Lucas, alongside his wife and business partner, Mellody Hobson, opened up about bringing the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art<\/a> to life in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Hobson noted that the \u201clevel of detail\u201d Lucas put into the museum \u201cnearly killed him,\u201d the director added, \u201cWell, I\u2019m 82, so there is a limit to\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I did this,\u201d Lucas continued, referring to the museum\u2019s creation, \u201cI decided to retire from making movies, which was a big deal because I had three more Star Wars to make. But I realized that I was running out of time, and I did want to make this museum, and I\u2019d spent a lot of time developing digital technology for the movie business. You know, all art depends on technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLucas directed four Star Wars films across his career, beginning with the franchise\u2019s first installment, 1977\u2019s Star Wars: Episode IV \u2013 A New Hope. While he handed off the directing duties to Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand, respectively, for the next two films in the original trilogy (1980\u2019s Star Wars: Episode V \u2013 The Empire Strikes Back and 1983\u2019s Star Wars: Episode VI \u2013 Return of the Jedi), he still wrote and executive produced them before returning to the director\u2019s chair for the prequel trilogy (1999\u2019s The Phantom Menace, 2002\u2019s Attack of the Clones and 2005\u2019s Revenge of the Sith).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2012, Lucas sold Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise to Disney for $4 billion. In addition to the sequel trilogy (2015\u2019s The Force Awakens, 2017\u2019s The Last Jedi and 2019\u2019s The Rise of Skywalker), Disney has continued to expand the universe with shows like The Mandalorian, Andor and The Acolyte, and the 2026 film The Mandalorian and Grogu. The next movie in the franchise, Star Wars: Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling, hits theaters next year.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the museum\u2019s star-studded opening night<\/a> on Saturday, Hobson spoke on the stage, emphasizing that Lucas \u201cwas driven to create a space that would showcase the brilliant illustrators that he thought were too often overlooked and ignored. And if critics say a museum on narrative art is too much like a popcorn movie and not enough like an art film, well, we like popcorn movies in our family,\u201d as she dubbed the space \u201ca director\u2019s cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened to the public on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Lucas, the mind behind the legendary Star Wars franchise, revealed that he intended to helm three more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,12472,206,5295],"class_list":["post-857417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-george-lucas","tag-movies","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}