Yeah, I was about to ask if anybody had reference to the screenplay. That proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Lucas just accidentally neglected to film that footage the first time around. Dirty, dirty, dirty rotten liar!

I find it a little bit sad that Mark Hamill has been confused by the whole Han/Greedo exchange and ended up answering the question wrong.

But reading Ann Crispin's quote made me realize that, if Lucas wanted to change Han's intentions, he went about it the wrong way. He should have cut out all the close-ups of Han pulling his gun out while Greedo was talking to him. And then have Greedo fire. And then add the deleted clips back in in fast motion of Han pulling his gun out of his holster, and then firing. But then again, he always has half-assed it, hasn't he?

And jturd, Greedo wouldn't have had to drag Han back to Jabba's palace. Jabba was already at the spaceport and sent Greedo out as a gofer. Yes, I know that scene is special edition, but it was actually originally planned (imagine that!) and in the novelization written before the movie came out, so I consider it canon. I just don't want to see it on my screen because it's redundant and not central to the plot of the story. But he was there.