Quote - Too back they can't go back and film the back story between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Shadows of the Empire. 

Wasn't that one of the novels that Lucas allowed to be written? I'd heard that he has distanced himself from them, and won't use any of the stories from the very large collection as part of his universe.

I also heard that he wants to move away from the Jedi stories. The Star Wars universe in pretty vast, and he wanted to explore a lot more of it.

At least until he sold it...

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.