Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker wrote a novel called "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", which was originally commissioned by George Lucas for the purpose of being filmed as a low-budget sequel, as a fallback plan in the event that "Star Wars" did not do well. It was published in 1978, a year after the movie's release. This made it the first full-length original novel to be published in the Star Wars expanded universe. The next official novelization of a "Star Wars" movie was "The Empire Strikes Back" by Donald F. Glut in 1980. Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker Star Wars: From the
Star Wars sequel trilogy that there would be no Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, since the time feels right to move on: In 1999, when asked about the possibility of someone else making "Star Wars" films, Lucas said, "Probably not, it's my thing." In August 1999, at a press conference in New York City to discuss "The Phantom Menace", Lucas described the "nine year commitment" required to make a "Star Wars" trilogy. In 2002, he said: "Basically what I said as a joke was, 'Maybe when Harrison and Carrie are in their 70s, we'll come back and do another version.' The thing