Originally posted by: marioxb
I always got the idea that Greedo was going to shoot Han based on Greedo's words as well. Also, I thought a bounty hunter and hitman were the same thing. Maybe I'm dumb. Whatever.

I also had this impression that Greedo was just going to blast him. If I remember right, the novelization and the shooting script bear this out:

HAN
I've been waiting for you Jabba.

JABBA
I expected you would be.

HAN
I'm not the type to run.

JABBA
(Fatherly-smooth)
Han, my boy, there are times when you disappoint me... why haven't you paid me? And why did you have to fry poor Greedo like that... after all we've been through together.

HAN
You sent Greedo to blast me.

JABBA
(Mock surprise)
Han, why you're the best smuggler in the business. You're too valuable to fry. He was only relaying my concern at your delays. He wasn't going to blast you.

HAN
I think he thought he was. Next time don't send one of those twerps. If you've got something to say to me, come see me yourself.

If George had wanted to have both Han and Greedo shoot at the same time, the evidence of the Making Magic CD-ROM seems to back that up. I still prefer the scene the way it turned out in the original, but I'm not going to be mad at George for this change. That's what the new Hayden scene in Jedi is for.