Quote - > 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...

 

Not sure how accurate that is. Lucasarts controls all story lines to novels, games etc. George Lucas even named Han and Leia's kids when those books were written (back in the 90s). As I understand it now, it's pretty near impossible to get a star wars plot approved from outside sources. The novels that exist today are mostly just outlines created my Lucasarts and fleshed out by various authors. 

Puts on the SW geek hat - Technically the Sith haven't existed for centuries - they were a race of brutes that the Dark Jedi enslaved long ago. Darth = Dark Lord of the Sith. For a while, any dark jedi that did not cary Sith blood was not considered a true Sith lord (by their peers), so technically Palpatine and Anakin were never true Sith, they only followed the Sith religions (Well Palpatine may have been), since the last traces of Sith blood vanished long before Anakin ever came along. But as long as Jedi exist, the potential for the Sith also exists. (Good can't exist without evil, and vise-versa). 

If he wanted a new enemy for a 3rd trilogy there are the Yuuzhon Vong, which is what the Solo kids have been fighting pretty much their entire lives, and IMO that would make both the film and the EU fans happy, in order to tie all of it in together.

 

~Shane