# Plans for Star Wars 7,8, and 9? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699 "2003-02-17T20:01:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/21 "2003-02-18T17:49:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TridCloudwalker \* > \*\*It’s always said Episode IV (minus i believe the test screening). The only thing added since it’s original release was the subtitle “A New Hope” which was added for the special edition. > > I don’t mean to be anal about it, but I saw the original release of Star Wars.\*\* Nope. Neither was in the original release (which I also saw). At ‘Empire’ we first saw “Episode V” and after that it was added to the first movie. There’s a cite to this effect on the official site, but I can’t find it at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/22 "2003-02-18T17:56:07Z")
Star Wars #7 : The Return of Jar Jar Binks. Except this time, Jar Jar shoots first. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/23 "2003-02-18T18:00:14Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s always said Episode IV (minus i believe the test screening). The only thing added since it’s original release was the subtitle “A New Hope” which was added for the special edition. > > I don’t mean to be anal about it, but I saw the original release of Star Wars. > [@](#): > > Nope. Neither was in the original release (which I also saw). At ‘Empire’ we first saw “Episode V” and after that it was added to the first movie. Legomancer’s [Right](http://www.starwars.com/community/askjc/steve/askjc20021031.html) ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/24 "2003-02-18T18:43:22Z")
> [@](#): > > As a fan of the movies, I don’t WANT an episode 7,8, and 9. Amen ---
**Author:** ![markdiscordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@markdiscordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdiscordia)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/25 "2003-02-18T19:37:57Z")
The quality of Shadows of the Empire being left to individual opinion, I’ll correct two little factual errors. > [@](#): > > Yes, you’re right if you’re currently thinking “What gap? Like, two weeks passes between those movies! Wouldn’t something set between ‘A New Hope’ and ‘Empire’ make more sense?” Six months. And there’s so much stuff set between ANH and ESB already that people are struggling to place it all in order: [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Starship/6618/timelines/ANH-ESB2.HTML](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Starship/6618/timelines/ANH-ESB2.HTML) > [@](#): > > The funniest part in the comic book series is when our beloved new Han Solo stand-in, Dash Rendar, has reached the end of the story and is not needed anymore, so he’s killed – off-panel! He jumps to hyperspace moments before the asteroid hits the ship. Presumably he’s alive, but he hasn’t appeared since. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/26 "2003-02-18T19:41:21Z")
If they make a movie based on Dash Rendar, I hope one of those “replacement cousins” on Dukes of Hazzard play him. ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/27 "2003-02-18T20:32:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt \* > **Just for the record, “Episode IV, A New Hope” was _not_ in the original release of Star Wars. I know that it’s been discussed ad nauseam, but some people still are buying the Lucas story.** When was it put in? I have the impression that if not in the original release, it was _very_ early. Is this another “false” memory like my alien abduction and satanic abuse? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/28 "2003-02-18T22:24:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TGWATY \* > \*\*When was it put in? I have the impression that if not in the original release, it was _very_ early. Is this another “false” memory like my alien abduction and satanic abuse? \*\* According to the aforementioned weblink, the re-release with episode 4 added was April 10, 1981. ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/29 "2003-02-18T22:26:56Z")
**ArchiveGuy** (appropriate in this case, since we’re looking at the archives), posted [this](http://www.starwars.com/community/askjc/steve/askjc20021031.html) link from the official Star Wars website and that contains that information. Thanks for finding the link **ArchiveGuy**. I knew that I should have looked up and posted it before; despite the number of times that it’s been discussed before, there are always those who missed the previously displayed proof. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/30 "2003-02-18T22:40:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TridCloudwalker \* > **The only thing added since it’s original release was the subtitle “A New Hope” which was added for the special edition.** The title “A New Hope” was added before the special editions (1997, twenty years after the original). I have the boxed set tht was remastered in THX, from 1995, and It bears “ANH.” And I’m sure the title predates this set. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/31 "2003-02-18T23:01:00Z")
In a recent interview, Lucas said that, after Episode 3, he’s going to make more movies like THX 1138… essentially, “I’m gonna make my own funky, weird, bizarre movies, and if people don’t like it, fuck 'em.” I’m betting that, at best, he’ll make two of these kinds of movies, lose HUGE amounts of money on 'em (I don’t care how much money you have… if you lose 100 million, that’s a big dent in your wallet), and THEN he’ll announce the creation of Episodes 7, 8, and 9. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/32 "2003-02-18T23:12:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*In a recent interview, Lucas said that, after Episode 3, he’s going to make more movies like THX 1138… essentially, “I’m gonna make my own funky, weird, bizarre movies, and if people don’t like it, fuck 'em.” I’m betting that, at best, he’ll make two of these kinds of movies, lose HUGE amounts of money on 'em (I don’t care how much money you have… if you lose 100 million, that’s a big dent in your wallet), and THEN he’ll announce the creation of Episodes 7, 8, and 9. \*\* That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/33 "2003-02-19T02:13:32Z")
> [@](#): > > ## Originally posted by TridCloudwalker The only thing added since it’s original release was the subtitle “A New Hope” which was added for the special edition. > > The title “A New Hope” was added before the special editions (1997, twenty years after the original). I have the boxed set tht was remastered in THX, from 1995, and It bears “ANH.” And I’m sure the title predates this set. According to the [IMDB](http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0076759): The episode number and subtitle “A New Hope” did not originally appear in the film’s opening crawl. These were added to the April 10, 1981 re-release to be consistent with those seen in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/34 "2003-02-19T02:53:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SC\_Wolf \* > \*\*I hate to be the one to bring it up, but there were those three made-for-cable Ewok Adventures movies. \*\* Do NOT dis the Ewoks. Yub yub! ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/35 "2003-02-19T03:15:51Z")
One story I heard, don’t know where, don’t know when, don’t know from whom, was that after Lucas finishes the current trilogy, Disney was going to take over for 7, 8, and 9. I have never seen or heard anything about this story since and apparently am the only one to have heard it. Personally after seeing the last two, I would just as soon have Lucas left well enough alone and not bothered. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/36 "2003-02-19T04:10:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kasuo \* > \*\*Wasn’t there mention in some of the later SW books about some extragalactic enemy that invades the SW galaxy after the New Republic is established? \*\* The Borg? ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/37 "2003-02-19T04:19:43Z")
The Yuzhan Vong, a rather UN-Borg like species that uses biological ships and weaponry. They find technology (and droids in particular) to be heretical, and see fit to invade the galaxy, purge it of technology, and eradicate the Jedi. Their notable accomplishments include conquering 75% of the galaxy to date, destroying and remaking Coruscant, and killing both Han and Leia’s youngest son, Anakin, and our beloved wookie Chewbacca. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/38 "2003-02-19T04:47:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TridCloudwalker \* > \*\*I don’t mean to be anal about it, but I saw the original release of Star Wars. \*\* Is this some kind of joke that you’re whooshing us with? According to your profile ("Biography 25 y/o male with weird interests. ") you weren’t even born when Star Wars was originally released. Did your mother use Star Wars to imprint you in the womb? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/39 "2003-02-19T08:22:29Z")
> [@](#): > > The Yuzhan Vong, a rather UN-Borg like species that uses biological ships and weaponry. The Yuuzhan Vong are a cross between the Borg and the Zerg. Not that that’s a bad thing… there’s only so many “alien archetypes” that one can use in sci-fi, and the Bio-Religious Bad Guy shtick is one that hadn’t been used before. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699/40 "2003-02-19T10:33:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\*Is this some kind of joke that you’re whooshing us with? According to your profile ("Biography 25 y/o male with weird interests. ") you weren’t even born when Star Wars was originally released. Did your mother use Star Wars to imprint you in the womb? \*\* Maybe one of his weird interests is time travel? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plans-for-star-wars-7-8-and-9/155699.md?page=1)