Originally posted by: Jumpman
Not on Episode V. Sure, brainstorming ideas and such, but it was Lucas who put pen to pad and created the structure and scenes for Episode V after Brackett died. Remember, Lucas essentially started from scratch after reading Brackett's draft of Episode V. Once he did his draft that set the tone, Kersh and Kasdan did the rest.
Episode V doesn't work without Lucas. He shouldn't get all the credit but he shouldn't be left out either.
Not on Episode V. Sure, brainstorming ideas and such, but it was Lucas who put pen to pad and created the structure and scenes for Episode V after Brackett died. Remember, Lucas essentially started from scratch after reading Brackett's draft of Episode V. Once he did his draft that set the tone, Kersh and Kasdan did the rest.
Episode V doesn't work without Lucas. He shouldn't get all the credit but he shouldn't be left out either.
Just remember with ESB, Lucas did not write the classic Han Solo line, "I know." Lucas wrote, "I love you too." and when Kersh & Ford changed it on set, and Lucas saw it in his first screening, he thought the crowd would laugh at it. So he made a pact with Kersh to let the audience decide at the preview whether to leave it in or not, and the audience loved it! It is all in the Annotated Screenplays.
I am just saying if Lucas written & directed ESB, we might have gotten a romance with Han/Leia more like Padme/Anakin in AOTC, and many of us here would only be SW '77 fans, and think the rest of the movies were inferior.