A scene from “It's a Trap!”

Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in order to-— okay, you know what, we don’t care. We were thinking of not even doing this one. FOX made us do it. When we did "Blue Harvest", they said, "Oh, you guys are crazy." They tried to talk us out of it, and it ended up making a ton of money. By then we were just finishing "Empire", and we were absolutely exhausted. But Fox suddenly had dollar signs in their eyes, and they said, "Seth, if you don't do 'Jedi', we're not gonna let you leave to go direct your movie."