[Austin Willard Wright]

Well, Lucas wasn't going to do the prequels either but changed his mind. I suspect that that there will more episodes.

[codebreaker]

I have heard that Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption) and M. Night Shamalyan (Sixth Sense) are alredy writing 'Indy 4' for next year.

[rmmcdaniell]

Well, Lucas wasn't going to do the prequels either but changed his mind. I suspect that that there will more episodes.

You may be right. Lucas likes to milk his projects as much as possible. I just hope Star Wars doesn't get as bad as Star Trek in reference to Voyager and Enterprise. Paramount is still milking thier Trek cow long after they ran out of ideas.

[Charles Martel]

Lucas *says* no more SW films. Of course, it did take him about fifteen years to get around to doing the first prequel, so we won't know for certain until 2017 or so.

Before the final trilogy, Lucas will have plenty of time to go back and "fix" everything about the first six films that he feels - IN RETROSPECT - could've been done better. Who knows... all those unfortunate racial stereotypes may yet be digitally erased. ( / sarasm )

The factor which will ultimately determine whether we ever see the last three SW films may be found in Spaceballs, where, in Mel Brooks' final scene as "Yogurt", he tells Lonestar and Barf: "Don't worry... we'll see one another again in Spaceballs II - The Search For More Money!"

Mel nailed it, as usual. :-)