I'm currently playing through KOTOR for the FIRST TIME EVER and I must agree... the game is brilliant. And I could see a movie from it, though perhaps not with the game's exact storyline. Perhaps something in the same time period and with overlapping characters though, certainly.

Movie nothing. I see a miniseries where are certain points there are webpolls. Let the audience decide!

Now, out of Lucasville, I'm feel that, with the exception of KOTOR and the post-movie Star Wars, the franchise has collapsed. I pray Lucas stops at RotS, or else it all goes to waste.

but what will life be like without new star wars movies?

Peo: Erm, actually unless Lucas is lying there WILL be no more new Star Wars movies after Episode 3. Most of you probably know the drill: Star Wars was originally planned as a trilogy of trilogies (Episodes 1-9). For some reason, Mr. Lucas decided to start with Episode 4 (perhaps because it rocked hard). But according to all recent news I've heard, he never plans to let Episodes 7-9 see the light of day.

Muktar: A couple of the new Star Wars games from Lucas Arts look good (specifically Republic Commando, Battlefront, and of course KOTOR 2). Besides that, though, I suppose they haven't really been offering much lately... especially since the cancellation of the Sam and Max sequel. Le sigh.

Yea, and for those of you who have read dragonlance, they were not going to write any more trilogies about three times, and for those of you who follow basketball, how many times has Michael Jordan retired? People just say those things so that you wont expect anything new.

Lucas started with 4-6 because they were the least visually intensive. If he had attempted 1-3 back then he would have had to cut like the entire movie, or invent a lot a CG techniques and some better computers. He has actually said this somewhere but I can't remember where I heard it. He changed the orignals the first time because he had new CG techniques that allowed him to add scenes that he had to cut before. I asssume that's why he edited the second time as well. Also, seeing how long it took him to get of his ass and make 1-3 I think he will be dead before he finishes getting ready to do 7-9.

I thought he wasn't doing 7-9 because of all the books out there that 'detail' the events of post Empire Strikes Back?

You can't really craft a story when there are 20 differing plot and timelines floating around.

This logic is flawed. You're thinking in the now. He could easily have made the first 3, and 4-6 would be the special effects ones. You only think that it wouldve been impossible because of the star wars we know now. Do you see what I mean? The order thing was to make something new--there was more to the star wars universe that you didn't even know, and that hooked people.

Imagine the geonosian arena without modern SFX, or the Trade Federation's robot legions. I wonder how Jar Jar would look without SFX. Probably wouldn't have that dipshit accent.

Thats assuming he had every storyline plotted out ahead of time.

He most likely had the storyline for three good movies, decided to be hip and cool and made those the MIDDLE, then released them to a hungry hungry audience. 15 years, and a couple million dollars, later he cooks up Episodes 1-3 with all the sci-fi geewhiz effects.

If you think he DID have all the episodes planned out, explain the mediclorians and numerous other things mentioned in Episode 1+2 that failed to make it into 4-6. And why he let people write stories after Episode 6 if he wanted to make movies.

Also, theres no way he could have known how far technology would go.