"Lucas wrote a short summary called "The Journal of the Whills", which told the tale of the training of apprentice C.J. Thorpe as a "Jedi-Bendu" space commando by the legendary Mace Windy" (not on topic but funny)
"It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at last nine films to tell—three trilogies—and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to write the middle story." that should explain it
Because he knew that if he made the prequels back in the day, that the Star Wars franchise would have bombed, and that he could sucker all the dumb***es in today's world to think that they are good movies.
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