The Phantom Menace | Behind-The-Scenes Following the release of Return of the Jedi(1983), talks of a follow-up were proposed, but Lucas was not motivated to return to the franchise. During the hiatus, the backstories he created for the characters, particularly Anakin’s, sparked interest in him to develop a prequel trilogy during the 1990s. After he determined that computer-generated imagery(CGI) had advanced to the level he wanted for the prequel trilogy’s visual effects, Lucas began writing The

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