3 New Star Wars films possibly coming.

Biggins

Don't start packing up your lawn chairs and igloo coolers just yet, but there will once again be "camping out" for a Star Wars movie. IESB has learned some news about the future of the Star Wars franchise.

First, let me remind our readers of IESB's past scoops so anyone doubting the news will be aware. From Joss Whedon directing the Avengers, to the recent announcement of Disney's planned renegotiation of the Paramount Marvel deal, to the countless casting scoops, directing scoops, to our solid sources at Lucasfilm.

Confirmed IESB scoops specific to the Star Wars universe include the first announcement of the PG-13 rating of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, the first word of a live action Star Wars TV series as well as the Clone Wars animated series. Yes, all of these Lucasfilm scoops were all first reported here on IESB.

Now on to our newest big Lucasfilm scoop, ready? George Lucas is plotting to create new Star Wars movies at the ultra top-secret Skywalker Ranch.
This is déjà vu of the mid 90's when Uncle George starting tweaking the Holy Trilogy to gear up for the Special Editions. That was his first step in moving forward with the eventual prequel trilogy.

It's happening all over again, Lucasfilm is already hard at work converting the entire Star Wars saga into 3D which will be released starting with Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 2012. The word from our ultra top-secret Lucasfilm insider is that Lucas has gotten the itch and is already looking ahead into launching an entirely new trilogy in that galaxy far, far away.

What do we know? First of all, these new film will have nothing to do with the live action television series currently in development. That show already has over 50 scripts ready to go and plenty of pre-production time and money has been spent on artwork and storyboards. Once that show goes into production, Lucasfilm hopes to be able to produce at least 100 episodes since that is the threshold for syndication in the United States.

IESB has been told fans can expect the new trilogy after the entire saga is released in 3D which is expected to be complete around 2015 or 2016.
Uncle George's modus operandi has not changed, the plan is that he will self finance the new trilogy after he rakes in an expected $500 - $750 million dollars with the re-release of the entire Star Wars Saga in 3D and on Blu-Ray.

The ideal plan, according to our spy at Skywalker Ranch, is to be able to release a new Star Wars film within 24 months after the release of the last re-re-release (is that right?) of Return of the Jedi 3D.

Too early for story details but one thing that our source is certain about, they will not be prequels but instead sequels. It's not for certain if they will be the long awaited Episodes 7, 8 and 9 but could instead be Episodes 10, 11 and 12 or possibly even further out in the Star Wars timeline. And by giving space in the timeline, possibly even as far as 100 years or 1,000 years in the Star Wars universe future, Lucas avoids having to make these stories "fit in" with what the previous stories have told.

According to our sources, the most likely scenario for the films is that they will exist in the same universe but will not have anything to do with the Skywalker Clan. That story has been told, that starship has sailed.

What has caused this sudden change of heart for Uncle George? Well, besides the obvious possible billions that a new Star Wars trilogy will take in, our source tells us that George has gotten motivated with the success the Clone Wars animated series, the video games and also with the success of Avatar.

Can we expect Lucasfilm to confirm our story? Have they ever? Nope, I am sure that they will spin this or completely deny the story, but we will stand 100% behind our source.

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The other very brief news is that there might be an Indy 5 coming soon too!
See (Ford possibly drunk too): http://furiousfanboys.com/2010/11/ford-on-indy-5-it-would-be-more-than-fun/

Revolution9

Someoned needs to inform the creators of South Park quickly

Karl Hungus

And they're be as sh*te as the prequel trilogy.

ziedth

^ I would get excited over this but the hurt of Episode I and II still burns deep. I have always been surprised that he didn't release 3 more and rake in the billions.

Indy franchise is dead to me so I'll ignore that.

jaykhunter

LOL Spite is a powerful motivator.

While making Ep I Lucas said "we can't beat Titanic. No-one can" and then seeing Cameron beat his own record to pieces with AVATAR; Lucas wants to jump on the 3D bandwagon and try reclaim a lot of 'lost ground' on being the true pioneer of filmmaking technology (which I guess most people think is Cameron now).

Ah yeah, set it in the future so we don't see any Darth Vader lookalikes and Han Skywalker and Chewy Solo or whatever the classic trilogy kids' names are!

I'll definitely go see it, sure I unknowingly sat through the Clone Wars film without doing proper research; ya go on. If nothing else the story can't be worse than Avatar and we'll have a CGI treat for the eyes.

bonerm

I actually have hope for this. The animated clone wars series is excellent imho and episode iii touched the levels of the original movies in a way ep1 and ep2 completely failed. Basically in the past six years Star Wars has been moving in the right direction.

Add to this that if the new movies are set after ROTJ then the story doesn't have to be stifled by trying to fit in with established canon in a way that really harmed the prequel movies.