George Lucas on Why He Doesn't Want to Direct Star Wars
WhenGeorge Lucashad completed the initialStar Warstrilogy, he maintained that the franchise actually consisted of three trilogies in total: another that tells the story of what happened beforeEpisode IVand a final series that continued the Luke/Leia story afterEpisode VI. He was able to realize the first continuation a couple of decades afterReturn of the Jedi, but then maybe not so surprisingly retreated from the world of directing for a bit. Indeed, the response to the prequels was not kind, and so Lucas focused his efforts on producing films likeRed TailsandIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....