Originally Posted by
Brigadoon
Of course, there were always going to be 9 Star Wars films - three trilogies, which Lucas originally said would be released over a 25 year period - he thought the last one would be released by around 2001 IIRC. He always planned to to start with the middle trilogy, then go 'back' and do Eps I-III, then 'forward' again and do Eps VII-IX. So yes, we will see new characters in the next two, and the line btw good & evil becoming blurry has always been a central theme - the evolution of Annekin to Darth Vader, then Luke & now Jacen is the emobodiment of the Force struggling to find balance, rather than there always being polar opposites of good & evil, light & dark - the esixstence of these opposed forces in their pure form means there will always be war between them.