Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
In the original incarnation of the scene, Lucas said he had 3 squib set ups he had the time and money to shoot, and that all 3 times the squibs didn't go off at the right timing. He said in one shot, Greedo shot way before Han, in another shot, Han shot way before Greedo, and in the take they ended up using they shot at that same time, but you couldn't really tell. (this is from Lucas own words on the Making Movie Magic CD ROM).
You mean the "Making Magic" CD-ROM that was used as a promo for the SEs?In the original incarnation of the scene, Lucas said he had 3 squib set ups he had the time and money to shoot, and that all 3 times the squibs didn't go off at the right timing. He said in one shot, Greedo shot way before Han, in another shot, Han shot way before Greedo, and in the take they ended up using they shot at that same time, but you couldn't really tell. (this is from Lucas own words on the Making Movie Magic CD ROM).
If so, he doesn't mention any of that. What he does say is (and this is probably the 5th time I've quoted this and the 5th time nobody's cared):
George Lucas: "Well, the change in the Greedo scene: it's always been a little difficult exactly how Han shoots Greedo and what Greedo does to provoke that. And obviously, the situation was that Geedo's gonna shoot Han, Han outdraws him and kills him. But in the film, it sort of appeared that Han shot him without Greedo knowing what was going on. That always bothered me so we added a new shot - a wider shot - where you see Greedo fire his gun and have it richochet off the wall, and then Han shoots him so it doesn't look like Han shot him in cold blood. We did have some difficulty in the timing of the laser so that it looks believable that Greedo could have fired the gun and then Han would have fired shortly thereafter but still have it far enough apart for it to read, for an audience to see that there were two separate gun shots going on."