Pre-"Prequel" Rumors

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Hi all,

As a mirror to the Pre-"Empire" Rumors thread - I have been thinking, what was known/speculated/even professionally considered about the Prequel trilogy before "Episode I" came out?

Obviously, Lucas changed his mind over the years quite considerably, but of course the "Darth Vader"-backstory was the great mystery of the Star Wars universe - before the prequels (re-) defined it in detail. What do you remember?

Yours,

Rafe

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Shortly after Star Wars (1977) came out there was an article in Starlog (IIRC, it might have been a similar magazine) stating the following rumor that turned out to be true almost 30 years later. They stated Darth Vader wore his armored suit with its distinctive respirator mechanism because he'd been thrown into a volcano after a pitched lightsaber battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi years before.

[archersix]

I remember that same story. I was only about 7 at the time, but it was the talk of the playground, let me tell you!

I don't recall any other rumors BITD, but the Obi-Wan/Vader volcano fight was definitely a thing.

[coffee]

Yeah, I remember that as well.

Can't think of any other rumors, except that at one point Lucas was saying there would be a total of 12 stories, not 9. He wanted people to spend an entire day in the theater, watching his movies.