Kurtz could only shake his head. “That’s not true,” he said later. “There were a lot of little bits and pieces that were reasonably good ideas and that ended up being in the final draft [of Star Wars],” but “there wasn’t enough material to do other movies.”38 Lucas, however, would maintain he’d had a galaxy-spanning epic mythology in mind all along, though he would sometimes waffle on whether he had intended it to be six parts or nine. Regardless, at least one critic bristled at Lucas’s nerve in teasing fans with the promise of even more Star Wars.
