Episode 7, 8 and 9?

The year was 1997, the 20th anniversary of the greatest trilogy ever to come to theaters. To celebrate the momentous occasion, LucasFilms re released the original Star Wars Trilogy with new and spectacular CG effects. I remember attending the midnight showing of A New Hope and the two subsequent movies. The excitement was palpable. Finally I was able to see the movie series that started when my father was a young boy, finally I was part of the revolution that took the science fiction community by storm. It wasn't long after the special edition of Return of the Jedi was in theaters that I saw the first previews for Phantom Menace. This was surely my trilogy, it was surely made just for me. Over the next several years I attended the midnight showing of every Star War movie to be released.



It's been 5 years since the last Star Wars movie and since then there has been enough Star Wars related media to keep me happy. Today we live in a new age, with Clone Wars in syndication, two new Star Wars video games being released this year and the news of a remastered 3-d version of all six of the movies coming to theaters soon. It all feels so familiar.


In fact, there is a reason why it feels so familiar, perhaps a formula that Lucas has cooked up for a new generation? Which is why it was almost not surprising when I saw the news yesterday.


IESB.net has announced a very credible rumor that George Lucas plans on working on a new trilogy after the release of the 3-d conversions. According to the site, Lucas plans to begin working on the series in 2012, to be finished around 2015 which coincides with the final 3-d conversion. The series will not involve the Skywalker family or have anything to do with the live-action series currently in development.


Details are limited right now, yet we can all keep our fingers crossed and hope it's not another dead-end rumor to pull attention to the current Star Wars universe.