TotalFilm: The Star Wars universe has expanded far beyond the movies. How much leeway do the game makers and novel writers have?
Lucas: They have their own kind of world. There's three pillars of Star Wars. I'll probably get in trouble for this but it's OK!
There's three pillars: the father, the son and the holy ghost. I'm the father, Howard Roffman [president of Lucas Licensing] is the son and the holy ghost is the fans, this kind of ethereal world of people coming up with all kinds of different ideas and histories. Now these three different pillars don't always match, but the movies and TV shows are all under my control and they are consistent with themselves.
