Another Star Wars Prequel?

boarder8925 writes "George Lucas said he was finished with the Star Wars movies, but it seems George Lucas has an idea for another add-on to the Star Wars movie series: a prequel to The Phantom Menace. The story would follow the Jedi regaining control of the universe from the many Dark Lords some 88 years before Anakin Skywalker ever graced the universe. Yoda, who, according to Lucas, was instrumental in the effort, would apparently have a headlining role. However, Lucas, now age 60, says he won't be captaining such a ship if it ever happens."

Re:Finally

[(trb001)]

He's a Whill [wikipedia.org], though it's never been announced in the movies. He's also over 800 years old in Episode III, so I wouldn't look for a significant change only 100 years earlier.

--trb

Off-topic reply to off-topic comment,

[bonehead]

but it seems there's no place to discuss it "on-topic".

The slashdot headlines at my "personalized" google page are displaying the same thing. Started sometime late last night.

Re:Hmm...

[IpalindromeI]

The explanation I've heard is that the Kessel run involved flying around or near a blackhole. Because of the way gravity works, the closer you are to the blackhole, the more power you need to get away from it. So Han is stating that the Millenium Falcon has a lot of power to be able to fly so close to the blackhole (and minimize the distance of the flight).

On a side note, the spelling of that word is r_i_diculous.

Re:Hmm...

[GreyyGuy]

There was a hand-waving explaination of that in one of the books, though I don't remember which one off the top of my head. The explaination given was that the Kessel spice mines were in the middle of a collection of black holes and there were only a few very narrow safe corridors to get in and out. But since the ship was so fast it was able to use an unsafe shorter route to get in and out, which would be a requirement for smugglers since the safe routes were strictly patrolled.

If you buy the idea of a black hole cluster, that almost is reasonable ;)

Already Done?

[Elranzer]

The story would follow the Jedi regaining control of the universe from the many Dark Lords some 88 years before Anakin Skywalker ever graced the universe. Yoda, who, according to Lucas, was instrumental in the effort, would apparently have a headlining role.

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't this already exist, in some form, as Knights of the Old Republic? I thought Georgy boy officially declared that KOTOR was permenantly the very first plotline in the Star Wars universe, the Genesis of the SW universe if you will, much like Ocarina of Time is permenantly the very first Legend of Zelda storyline no matter how many other Zelda prequels they make.

We really don't need an Episode Zero movie, cuz if they tried to put all of the main points of KOTOR into a movie it would be at least 5 or 6 hours long...

Re:Finally

[Darth]

actually, yoda is not a whill. That was speculation that the community created due to the fact that the text scroll had a byline saying it was from the journal of the whills in some of the original scripts. (i think it says that in the original novel too).

Rick McCallum answered that at a convention once and said yoda's race has never been identified, nor had his homeworld; but he was definitely not a whill.

(the whills were an idea that lucas abandoned before releasing the original star wars film, which is why the scrolling text on the film doesnt include the by line)

Re:No matter how hard I try

[SnprBoB86]

I just love beating this dead horse!

Great comic strip:
http://penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-12-13& res=l [penny-arcade.com]