The reason the Star Wars movies were released 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3

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@Mister44

Though later Lucas said he had an outline of 9 movies, and took the middle part to tell first. By outline I think he wrote “I should make 9 movies.” because there was very little in the prequels that had the same feel as the originals and the story of the prequels was way too disjointed and contrived.

Except, of course, when he was saying he had outlines for 12 movies. (Of which the original one was to be the 6th instalment.)