Go Triad has a new article talking about Lucas opening up Skywalke Ranch to visitors on last time and reminiscing about the Star Wars movies. There's plenty of good stuff there, including this clip about the hero's journey:

If the criticism Lucas received for casting Jake Lloyd as 9-year-old Anakin was harsh, it only intensified when he chose little-known TV actor Hayden Christensen to play the teenage Anakin.

Then there was the script that was pretty much gutted by critics.

"Listen, I was thrilled to get the role," he says. "It was one of the greatest parts ever, and I just wanted to do the best I could do. ... I just said to myself, I am George?s voice. This is his vision, and I?m here to fulfill it, and that?s how we worked."

Christensen believes that "Revenge of the Sith" will ultimately make the previous two episodes more palatable.

"I felt that everybody felt more comfortable with this, and I know I?m looking forward to going back and looking at episodes IV, V and VI now because this changes everything. You?ll see them in a different way."

And that, claims Lucas, was always the point.

"I could have never conceived this, because I always thought ? Star Wars? was like the first act of the movie in my head, and I never really thought I would get the opportunity to make the ending.

"You have to remember, nobody wanted to make that movie. They (the studios) didn?t get it. Then I get to go back and explain the beginning. It?s still the classic hero?s journey, but because it?s just been made backwards so to speak, in reverse chronology, we?re just now seeing where the hero gets corrupted, before he gets redeemed."