SINsister wrote:EvilBastard wrote:ROTJ doesn't count because there are ewoks in it.
But we can argue about this over dinner
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Incidentally, wasn't its working title
Revenge of the Jedi?
It indeed originally was
Revenge, but later changed to
Return.
If I recall correctly, the original idea was to have not Ewoks, but Wookies. A much better scenario in my opinion, but Lucas went with what he thought was the more marketable approach. Episode 3 does have a few moments of Wookie battle, so you can imagine what
Jedi would have been like had they stuck to the Wookie idea.
What mh described above is what I recall about the Star Wars title in 1977. The title
A New Hope appeared once the sequals became reality. I do not recall much confusion about it being Episode 4, though. I thought that it was widely known that three trilogies were planned, with
Star Wars being the start of the second one.
Purely speculation on my part, but I would not be surprised if there was work on a third triolgy at some point, in a few years. One advantage to it over the most recent batch would be that the mythology can go afresh without having to fill in gaps which need to be addressed. In Episode 3, muych of what needed to transpire was already known because of the original film, but a new triology would be more open-ended. (albeit still touched by the hand of Lucas.)
How would you feel if you were the actor who originally played Jabba the Hut in the first film, only to have the scenes deleted, and then have them reinserted with a cgi Jabba over your performance nearly 20 years later?
For those who keep up with the mythology, how is the book
Splinter of the Mind's Eye treated? Originally canon, but some plot elements no longer fit with the developments later in the triology. Does anyone want to bring up the Christmas special?