why the last 3 episodes of star wars r the first ?

Answer 1

the movie starts in the middle. the first one starts in the middle of a story. the next continus where the last left off. and the next where the last. then they start from the beging of the story. til they get where the first one began. it is like this.

episode 4
episode 5
episode 6
episode 1
episode 2
episode 3

that is the order the movie went in. lucas did that cause it had never been done before. it was just a clever marketing strategy. and hay, it worked.

Answer 2

The closest to the correct answer is Jermaine, but even he is not completely correct. And no offence to vfaa_2000 but she is way off base there were no books prior to the movies.

Here is the story.

After the success of American Graffiti, George Lucas was able to sell the studio on the idea of making a Science Fiction movie. Lucas had loved the Sci-Fi serials that he grew up on (like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers). When he came up with the concept for Star Wars his dream was a series of movies that would be episodic in nature like the old serials. (These serials were also the influence behind the Indiana Jones Trilogy).

Jermaine is correct is saying that he did not plot out the story, but he is wrong in thinking that it was not in Lucas’ mind. George thought he was only going to make one movie so he started with Episode 4 as an homage to those serials he loved as a kid. Even the story introduction with the text moving away from the camera is taken directly from the Flash Gordon serial of the 50’s.

The serial would start with the text moving away from the camera saying something like “Flash Gordon – Episode 5 – Ming’s Revenge: Flash Gordon and Dr. Zarkoff have escaped from Ming’s Palace….etc.”

George Lucas gave a lot of thought to the what happened before the start of “A New Hope” and what came after. He did this not with the thought of making the story into movies, but to give Star Wars the feeling that it was just one chapter in a larger story. Star wars was having so many problems he was worried that he would never be allowed to make another movie at all, much less a sequel.

After Star Wars came out and was such an unbelievable hit, he began to think of making more Star Wars movies. He sold the studio on the idea of two more Star Wars movies and put together a rough outline of ESB, and ROTJ. After those two completed he was tired of Star Wars and wanted to do other things. That is why there was such a large gap between Episode 6 and 1.

Answer 3

Well, let me tell you what I know. First of all, when George Lucas was deciding to make a movie of Star Wars, he felt the fourth book was the most exciting and felt this would be the one to make money. When the fourth book did so well, he then did book 5 and 6. Since then, there has been commotion in Hollywood that they should do the first three books for the past 15 years. The problem of why it took so long is George Lucas felt movies on the first three books wouldn't do well in movie form and was not willing to direct them. As you know, he obvious gave in.

Answer 4

When Lucas wrote Star wars there were originally 9 Chapters...

If you watched his interviews after any of the new ones he told you why he Chose Star Wars A new hope as the first one......

and he also did a special for TV years ago telling how he had written all 9 of them back when he was in College or shortly after...

Answer 5

the total solid of the famous person Wars saga will kick the crap out of all the Lord Of The rings solid because of the fact there are a lot greater characters interior the famous person Wars saga like Darth Vader, Obi gained Kenobi and the total military of Ewoks and Stormtroopers. those undesirable asses will kill first and take wands later. THE rigidity is powerful WITH THIS answer!

Answer 6

Do you mean episodes 1,2,and 3? They're the first episodes because everything that happened in them happened before the other episodes. Kind of like a prequel.

Answer 7

Because contrary to popular belief, he DID NOT have them plotted out from the very beginning. Otherwise, they would not have been shameless rip-offs of the original trilogy. Granted, I think the man's original vision was a genius, but that doesn't mean his s* don't stink. B.S. is B.S. and the prequel trilogy smells a lot like it.
Except for Revenge of the Sith. That junk was SWEET*

Answer 8

Let me just pretend your question made sense.

No wait, yeah it does, sorry, my bad.

Because that's the way George Lucas wanted to make them. The first three episodes were meant to be a prequel.
He's cool and could do whatever he wanted with it, I dunno.

It doesn't affect the coolness of the series, it's just cooler FOR that reason.

Answer 9

I think he did it cause the backgrounds to the last three were easier to film with a limited budget. Once he had made a gazillion dollars making the last three, then he had enough money to digitally do the first three the way he saw it in his head.