"When Kathy came on, we started talking about starting up the whole franchise again," Lucas told Bloomberg in 2013. Though nobody knew it at the time, the public beginning of his succession plan arrived when he hired Kathleen Kennedy to run Lucasfilm in 2012. He wanted to make sure that they were well taken care of. In 2012, the year after the big Blu-ray release, Lucas was increasingly thinking about retirement and what would happen to his empire - including the companies he owned and franchises like Indiana Jones and Star Wars - in his absence. Depending on when he was talking about his space opera, Star Wars was always going to be nine parts, unless it was supposed to be 10 parts, except that it was always really going to be three parts, but seriously six is the real, final number - just check the September 2011 Blu-ray release, which bundles Episodes I - VI and calls it "The Complete Saga." How much more definitive can you be? Lucas' plans for Star Wars have always been in flux. Come back after you've seen The Force Awakens.
These are the canonical stories that Disney and Lucasfilm released during the ramp up to The Force Awakens' release to get fans ready for what's to come.īut if you'd rather not know backstories or where characters came from or what happened the day after the Battle of Endor, then stop when you reach that section. What you'll learn here isn't based on rumors or speculation. It's entirely possible that story details have leaked on some dark and spoiler-friendly places on the internet. To be clear, these aren't spoilers, at least in the sense that were deliberately constraining our coverage to the official sources. Read on, and you'll know the official accounts, the broad strokes and how you can find out more. Then, because Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes place three decades after the events of the last chronological Star Wars movie, Return of the Jedi, we'll tell you what we've learned about the events that transpired between the last frame of the original trilogy and the first frame of a new chapter in a galaxy far, far way. Another part was to fill in the gaps.įirst, we'll recap the weird, convoluted, feelings-hurting, screenwriter-firing, story-ditching, teenager-trashing, mind-changing journey to new Star Wars movies. Part of that plan was to keep things secret. We're at the tail end of what Disney CEO Bob Iger called a " very carefully designed marketing plan" in May. But that doesn't mean we know nothing.ĭisney and Lucasfilm have spent the last year rekindling interest in Star Wars and building anticipation for The Force Awakens. Only a day out, and we know next to nothing that The Force Awakens' creators don't want us to know.
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