The intervening years have made it clear that there was no real plan for a sequel to the 1977 movie Star Wars. There was no guarantee that it would be a hit, much less the saga it came to be. Before that year was out, though, science-fiction writer Leigh Brackett was working to construct a sequel. George Lucas nixed many of her ideas, and she died before the project could be finished, so the story was passed to others. So what was in Brackett's treatment of the story?
"I’ve never been able to understand the pleasure human beings get from placing their mouths together."
That was a line from C-3PO. Read its context, and other ideas that were changed from the first script of The Empire Strikes Back at Mental Floss.
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Oh sure, he said that. And he may have even had some vague idea of where it might go. But he didn't have a story for a second film, much less a third. And each film that followed made it even more clear that they were making it up as they went along.
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No plans for a sequel? I remember reading at the time (about late 1976--definitely before "Star Wars" hit the theaters) that Lucas was planning 9 movies in the Star Wars saga. I was ticked when a few years later he reneged and cut the number of movies down--to either 3 or 6, I can't remember.
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