Because George wrote a 3 act story which was too big and detailed to be crunched into a 1.5 hour film. So he chopped it up into 3 parts, and started with part 1.
When Lucas was first making Star Wars, it originally had “Episode IV” in the title before he removed it and released the original without a number. He was worried it wasn’t going to do well financially.
I’ve heard this before, but I don’t really believe it. George doesn’t strike me as a “grand design” sort of guy. More like, this seems like a cool scene, add it!
Because George wrote a 3 act story which was too big and detailed to be crunched into a 1.5 hour film. So he chopped it up into 3 parts, and started with part 1.
When Lucas was first making Star Wars, it originally had “Episode IV” in the title before he removed it and released the original without a number. He was worried it wasn’t going to do well financially.
No, it was supposed to be a single movie, “Star Wars”, but due to the success of it they started working on further movies.
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I’ve heard this before, but I don’t really believe it. George doesn’t strike me as a “grand design” sort of guy. More like, this seems like a cool scene, add it!
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