George Lucas planned three more Star Wars movies before he ultimately decided to retire, with Disney taking up the franchise instead.
Lucas has, over the years, occasionally discussed having nebulous ideas for his own Star Wars sequel trilogy, though nothing concrete was set in motion before he sold the series to Disney for $4 billion back in 2012. The filmmaker has also made conflicting statements over the past 50 years over whether he ever had ideas for a third trilogy of stories in the first place.
Still, Lucas has now referenced an abandoned desire to complete what has become known as the "Skywalker Saga" — all nine main Star Wars films — though Lucas has said he had to choose between creating those and working on his newly-opened museum.
"When I did this, I decided to retire from making movies," Lucas said of creating The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, in conversation with CBS. "Which was a big deal because I had three more Star Wars to make.
"But I realized that I was running out of time," he continued, "and I did want to make this museum, and I'd spent a lot of time developing digital technology for the movie business. You know, all art depends on technology."
Lucas' early plans for the Star Wars sequel trilogy changed dramatically over time, with ideas that it would feature a sister for Luke Skywalker and an ultimate showdown with Emperor Palpatine reworked into Return of the Jedi. By the 1980s, Lucas realized the sheer scale of the story, and elected to make just the main trilogy.
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