Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > > No, I'm pretty sure when the very first Star Wars film appeared, it said
> > > "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the opening title sequence. I remember
> > > wondering why...
>
> > Nope.  When I went to watch the re-release before the second movie came out,
> > I went "WTF? Episode 4?"
>
>   AFAIK the very first time Star Wars was shown on theaters it did not have
> the subtitle "Episode 4", but the next movie did have "Episode 5" as its
> subtitle when it first was shown (causing quite some confusion). Star Wars
> was then retroactively given its "Episode 4" subtitle.
>
>   So it seems that, indeed, Lucas had planned for a prequel trilogy right
> from the beginning.

As I recall, both SW and Indiana Jones were conceived as homages to old movie
serials like the Perils of Pauline, Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon.  The episodic
subtitles and initial "recap" from previous episodes were following the same
formula as well.

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