Why did they make the last three star wars movies before the first three?

Question

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Answer 1

Lucas had all of the episodes written prior to filming. Due to the lack in technology of the time period he was forced to go with the last three first. As technology in filming progressed he was able to go back and redo his older films and begin production of the first three films.

Answer 2

None of these people know what they're talking about.

When Lucas originally created Star Wars, it was going to be nine episodes - working as the beginning, middle and end of one story.
In any story, the middle part of the arc of the story is always the most interesting, because the characters have already been established and resolution of the story hasn't begun to happen.
That's why he shot the middle trilogy first.

Once the first three were shot in the 70s and 80s, Lucas decided that he was the only filmmaker who understood the technology to make the rest of the movies - thus, he was the only one that could direct them.

Because of that, he realized nine episodes would take up too much of the rest of his life.
So he shortened the saga to six episodes.

Answer 3

Because that was the original plan. If you look closely at the beginning of the first Star Wars movie, the scrolling text is titled "Episode IV". So naturally, the first three episodes had to come before the story of Luke Skywalker.

They didn't have to suck, though...

Answer 4

Oh, boy.

Given the new technologies to make animated aliens a bit more realistic, and because George Lucas is a profiteering glutton, he decided to "make up" an "Explanation-movie trilogy" about the movies he created.

It's like making the first part of Shrek. We know where Shrek begins.

And since it's been a successful movie, maybe the producers decide to make a Shrek movie in which they don't follow the story we have right now, but rather a story in which Shrek was a little boy, to kinda explain why he ended up alone or something.

We really don't need it. But people would still watch it and pay for it.

So money is a motivation.

Answer 5

When George Lucus started making the films he didn't have the capabilities to do some of the scenes and he said in an interview that he would rather skip them than do them badly. He did the first ones last because he could do them right. He is a perfectionist and it shows in his work. It does make the story hard to follow but is well worth it. I hope this answered your question.

Answer 6

Because George hadn't written or thought up the storylines for the prequels yet. This is called "working backwards". Pretty cool idea. You'll see it again with the Silence of the Lambs and the following release of Red Dragon.

Answer 7

because the original star wars (now known as episode IV) was originally a self-contained movie ... he outlined a rough backstory to the movie at the time to provide for himself a sense of history ... it was only later that the sequels and prequels were fully flushed out

Answer 8

My guess is because they make a movie....if it is good then they make another one....2 good so they go ahead with the 3rd one. Then they may have run out of places to go forward so they decided to go backwards and work up to the first one.

Answer 9

because in the last three parts you see anakin the bad guy without knowing where did he come from

Answer 10

The first three were intentional. Then years later, someone thought...hmm..I could use some extra cash...hehe