George Lucas' Plans For The Third Star Wars Trilogy

[Agent Z]

“I had planned for the first trilogy to be about the father, the second trilogy to be about the son, and the third trilogy to be about the daughter and the grandchildren. Episodes VII, VIII, and IX would take ideas from what happened after the Iraq War,” Lucas says in Star Wars Archives. “‘Okay, you fought the war, you killed everybody, now what are you going to do?’ Rebuilding afterwards is harder than starting a rebellion or fighting the war. When you win the war and you disband the opposing army, what do they do? The stormtroopers would be like Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist fighters that joined ISIS and kept on fighting. The stormtroopers refuse to give up when the Republic win.”

But the Imperial remnant Lucas describes wouldn’t have been the main threat of the new trilogy; their fight would’ve created a power vacuum that allowed the long-simmering power base of Star Wars’ criminal underworld—an idea Lucas has long been fascinated with, and had big plans for—would’ve risen to confront our heroes and the remnant alike. Led by a familiar face: Darth Maul.

“They want to be stormtroopers forever, so they go to a far corner of the galaxy, start their own country, and their own rebellion. There’s a power vacuum so gangsters, like the Hutts, are taking advantage of the situation, and there is chaos,” Lucas continued. “The key person is Darth Maul, who had been resurrected in the Clone Wars cartoons—he brings all the gangs together. [Maul]’s very old, and we have two versions of him. One is with a set of cybernetic legs like a spider, and then later on he has metal legs and he was a little bit bigger, more of a superhero. We did all this in the animated series, he was in a bunch of episodes.”

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[Anthony W]

Better than what we got.

[Jackalope89]

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While the Legends time line is still my overall favorite (Chewie, no!), that actually sounds like an interesting story line. Far better than the utter mess the ST became (Force Awakens did have potential going forward, but man was it wasted).

[Slowpokeking]

I don't think Maul would fit a big bad role too well. Darth Plagueis would be a better choice if you don't want anything new.

[Sacred Knight]

Its a different, if only slightly different, main antagonistic formula over basically just the Empire 2.0. I mean, a crime syndicate isn't new, but it was never the driving force of any films before.

[sunofdarkchild]

One thing I'm not a fan of is him having Luke take toddlers to train as Jedi again. Considering that he was around 20 when he started training to be a Jedi, the way the Jedi were depicted as being partially responsible for their own demise in the prequels, and the fact that there would need to be a new Jedi order pretty quickly, I feel like Luke should specifically be looking for people who are older and can give their own consent to being trained as a Jedi.

[ChrisIII]

I think a bit of the criminal stuff did survive-Disney's sequel trilogy EU has the First Order often make deals with the underworld in order to help them out. (This is also implied a bit in TLJ as well).

[Bruce Wayne]

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So basically what Clone Wars was leading up to with the founding of Maul's Shadow Collective. I guess that meant he wasn't suppose to die in Rebels and why Ron Howard pushed for his appearance in Solo.

[thwhtGuardian]

So basically what Clone Wars was leading up to with the founding of Maul's Shadow Collective. I guess that meant he wasn't suppose to die in Rebels and why Ron Howard pushed for his appearance in Solo.

Eh, these loose plans for a sequel trilogy were from way before Rebels was even an inkling so you can't really say, " Maul wasn't meant to die in Rebels" and since Lucas was supposedly a huge fan of Rebels it's probably fair to say he was okay that things evolved beyond his earlier ideas.

[K. Jones]

Eh, these loose plans for a sequel trilogy were from way before Rebels was even an inkling so you can't really say, " Maul wasn't meant to die in Rebels" and since Lucas was supposedly a huge fan of Rebels it's probably fair to say he was okay that things evolved beyond his earlier ideas.

Agreed. I can't claim to know but I suspect he's probably fairly satisfied with the Filoniverse as of now. A lot of really satisfactory resolutions and "could continues". And while I still think it's a magical universe where his finale could totally play out, I don't think it's likely or necessary.