Once again, there will be no sequel trilogy. So sayth George.
“This was never planned as a nine-episode work,” Lucas said. “The media [pounced when] I made an offhand comment, ‘It might be fun to come back when everyone’s 80 and do another one of these.’ But I never had any intention of doing that.”
Retconning? Don’t know. Don’t really care. Am just happy that they’re keeping the line on this.
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