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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
I guess nobody really gives a crap about Howard Kazanjian's contributions to the Star Wars Saga.
It's sad when a thread is titled "Howard Kazanjian" and you have two posts regarding him, and twenty others pertaining to Gary Kurtz, Rick McCallum, and their respective working relationships with Lucas.
It's not sad at all. Any discussion of Kazanjian would be replete without the point being made that Lucas has seemingly become more insular since the 1980's and gravitated more toward the producing style of McCallum which is decidely less artistically hands on.
My guess is that Kazanjian had moved on to other things since 'Jedi' like producing television and more features. His schedule was probably busy and McCallum was hired to produce Young Indiana Jones. A working relationship formed between him and Lucas, and there you go.
I think the reason that a thread about Kazanjian moved into other areas is that his story isn't as lurid and entertaining as Kurtz's. Honestly, his contribution to the Star Wars universe is a little boring apart from the interesting point that it was he who originally contributed the 'Revenge' title.
For what it's worth, you could probably credit him with the title for 'Revenge of the Sith' which without the original 'Jedi' title would have been called something else. The danger though is creating a legend out of Kazanjian where there may not really be one...
Just my opinion though (and the beers as well, I guess)