Jeff
2008-05-29 11:58:20
I remember reading somewhere that since George Lucas was practically untested as a filmmaker (THX1138 and American Graffiti were it) he had a lot of people over him on Star Wars, courtesy of the money people. As a result it had something like 6 forced major rewrites before it became the version that hit the screen (and the hints I barely remember indicated version 1-5 were really, really bad).
By the time RotJ came out, he could write his own ticket without the oversight.
And he did, and we see the results. Then he did it again in Eps. 1-3 (haven’t actually seen 3 yet).
