Star Wars fans, flock upon me.?!


Question: Star Wars fans, flock upon me!.!?
I usually peruse this forum answering questions about economics and finance, but this is bugging me!.

Back in the 70's when George Lucas was writing the Star Wars stories and finally got the chance to turn one into a movie, why did he start with episode 4!?

I've always wondered!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
Short Answer: he started with ep IV because it is the only one of the 6 movies that could be seen as a "stand alone" movie!. It had a beginning and an ending !.!.!. if there had never been another Star Wars movie made nobody would have been the wiser!.

Long Answer:

I'm always amazed, not in a good way either, at the answers people give when they try to answer this question!. None of the answers that you've got so far are any where near being true!.

When Lucas first came up with the idea for "Star Wars" he envisioned it as a 12 part story that would be told in a similar fashion as the old Flash Gordon series!. It didn't take him long to realize it wouldn't work that way so it got cut down to a 9 part story!. The first trilogy was to be about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker!. The second trilogy was to be about the rise of Luke Skywalker and the redemption of Anakin Skywalker!. The third trilogy was to be about the "other" Skywalker that Yoda mentions in The Empire Strikes Back!. There have been many insane rumors floating around saying that Lucas is going to make ep 7 – 9 … he’s not because the don't exist anymore!. They were all basically condensed into what became ep 6, Return Of The Jedi!. A little known fact is that up until the point where Lucas was almost done writing the script for ROTJ Leia was NOT the other Skywalker!. When Lucas was writing the duel between Luke and Vader he was stumped on something that would make Luke attack his father in a dark side fueled rage!. He solved this problem by making Leia Luke's twin sister and having Vader threaten her!. That one change eliminated the third trilogy in its original form!.

As for why he did 4 - 6 first!. It has been said it was because the technology was not there to make it right!. That's almost true except for the fact that the technology wasn't there to make 4 - 6 either!. People have said that Lucas is a genius !.!.!. I don't know if I'd go that far but what really is the true genius of Lucas is that he surrounded himself with the very best people in Sci-fi movie making !.!.!. for the most part everything that we saw in ep 4 were things that they made up as they went along!. Basically a "how are we going to do this", "I don't know, figure it out" kind of thing!. Lucas had the vision but it was the people he surrounded himself with who made it work!. When Lucas was first shopping the story of Star Wars around Hollywood he was laughed out of town!. Nobody thought it would work including, to a certain extent, Lucas himself!. Then came American Graffiti!. The success of that movie gave Lucas credibility in Hollywood and FOX finally said ok !.!.!. we don't believe that it will work but here's some money !.!.!. prove us wrong!. If you watch the documentary "Empire of Dreams" you will find that Star Wars came within a few "missed" phone calls of never being made!. Lucas had a friend on the FOX board of directors and when FOX decided to pull the plug on Star Wars this friend called Lucas and told him not to answer his phone!. Up until that point production of the movie was in chaos !.!.!. nothing was working right and it was a mess!. In what can only be a stroke of luck (or proof that the Force does exist in some form) things started to go right with the filming of the movie!. Lucas let the phone ring and instead showed up at a FOX board meeting with some of the footage that he had "in the can" for the movie!. To say that what he had to show them blew them away is probably and understatement!. They still didn't think it would work but they were willing, given what they had seen, to keep the project going!. Even when the movie was finished the doubters, even Lucas himself to a certain extent, didn't think the movie would be a hit!. If you really watch ep 4 you see that it could have been a stand-alone movie!. By that I mean that if it was a flop then we would never need to know that there were 8 more parts!. Of all the Star Wars movies ep 4 is the only one that can be said of!. Good had defeated Evil !.!.!. end of story!. Lucas, being a very good "business man" had made some "strange" deals with FOX before the release!. He had the rights to all future episodes, probably because most thought there wouldn't be any, and all the rights to marketing all the toys and other stuff that came about because of the movie!. I have to image the people at FOX had a hard time hiding the fact that they were laughing at Lucas for wanting the rights to all of this stuff!. Kind of like !.!.!. Fine, you can have all that stuff !.!.!. it won't make a difference because there isn't going to be any of that stuff to make money from!. I guess in the end it is proof that he who laughs last laughs best because Lucas ended up laughing all the way to the bank!. As I said before, nobody, including Lucas thought they had such a monster hit on their hands!. When Star Wars hit the movie houses people were blown away by it!. I was all of 8 years old when I saw it for the first time and I remember sitting there absolutely spell bound by what I was seeing!. It was and still is one of my best childhood memories!. With the runaway success of ep 4 Lucas and FOX realized just what a monster hit they had and that the fans would want more!. The rest is history!.

May The Force Be With You !.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

He started with Episode 4 because he wanted to drop the audience into the middle of the storyline where the most action takes place!. He thought the movie would be a bigger hit had the introduction had a mysterious backdrop and the pivotal plot-turns within the first few films!. Imagine if they had come out in chronological order: You would have known Darth Vadar was Luke's father several movies before Episode IV because of the first three!.

In short, the first three would have spoiled the audience and the movie's surprises!.

I always wondered that too, but then I watched a special with George Lucas when Episode III was coming out and he was asked that question and I finally understood!. It makes sense!.

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I was always under the impression that he STARTED with A New Hope, but at the time it wasn't necessarily 4!. It was just "Star Wars"!. He filmed that one and the other two (Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi), and then a few years later realized that there was more to the story he wanted to tell!.

I believe he came up with the idea of A New Hope first, long before the prequels!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I seem to remember he said that he had decided the story needed a beginning middle and end and since he only expected to make one movie the middle section was the most complete storyWww@Enter-QA@Com

To build suspense for the first 3 by establishing character and making interest and countless fans!?
I don't know!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

the power of space!?Www@Enter-QA@Com

He wanted that to be the one he made into a movie if he only had one choice!. Simple preference!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

He was an idiot!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Because he is a very wise man!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

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