Venice Wars was a play written by William Shakespeare in 1590, which was eventually scrapped to make way for the immensely more popular Romeo and Juliet. In 1970, George Lucas got his hands on the script, altered it to make it more futuristic, changed the title, and seven years later, made a trilogy of movies about it. Lucas, feeling confident after his success, spent almost thirty years writing a prequel trilogy, which wasn't as good or as popular as the original.