Kurtz was fired because of Lucas’s ego, and the budget issues on ESB were just an excuse. Lucas could not stand someone else making a better SW movie than him, one that put story first and merchandising second. If Kurtz worked on Jedi it would have blown Empire out of the water.
The ending would have been way better but as it pertains to the totality of ROTJ it is uncertain. Surely things like Luke skipping the end of his training and the Ewoks being so focal wouldn’t have been written into the script but Kurtz’s version of ROTJ would need to do more than fixing the mistakes of the original ROTJ to be legitimately better.
At least we would have a franchise that hasn’t been on a losing streak for 35 straight years.
As of 2015 we have had two wins that I can count.
And one win that frevious could count, until he read a review that convinced him he actually didn’t like TFA after all.
So did he completely 180 or did the review reinforce his previously held points?
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1021308
Personally I love the OT(unaltered), really like TFA, thought R1 was okay, don’t particularly like TPM but have a sort-of nostalgia for the era when it was released, and love to hate the rest of the PT.
Five hours later!
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1021424
http://www.agonybooth.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015-a-failed-review-51100
Makes me reconsider my opinions on TFA. JJ Abrams is the one director who might be destroying the art of cinema more than anyone else, even more than Michael Bay or Zack Snyder. I haven’t seen TFA in over a year, and only once, and now I’m uncertain if it would even hold up a second time.