this would apply to the orginal trilogy which he recut twice and is recutting again, even though he own's them they were a collaborative effort. I cannot believe he's allowed to bury the originals and none of the guilds or academys will stop him, what about the people who slaved over these films should'nt their work be preserved? I think lucas should be able to do what he wants with his films, only if the original versions are preserved on dvd. I mean the model builders, the mask makers, puppeteers etc. work should be preserved. Does'nt suprise me that he would crap all over these creative artists endeavors however, since even today he won't ackowledge john dykstra and look at his phenomenal work on star trek the motion picture, battlestar galactica (original) and spider man and spider man II. He evented the motion control dykstaflex camera that back in the 70's made star wars so amazing, i admit the two and a half million dollars spent by lucas not by him to get it working however.
And i still think Gary Kurtz should've been involved on jedi, and the prequels, and lawrence kasden etc. and the original production crew, although it would've cost more money. I don't think the young indy crew should have been used on the prequels. If he would only get the original artists, writers back together and make episode 7
he could be redeemed in all star wars fans eyes, with mark hamill, harrison ford and carrie fisher returning, or at least just mark hamill as a ben kenobi type character passing on the torch to the next generation of jedi knights end capping the series. No need to make episodes 8 or 9.