Actually the footage shown was the same dailies David West Reynolds unearthed while viewing the lost cut materials.

All of that footage was already known back in 1996 and 1997 when his articles were published in the insider. and many of the same scenes were in the shooting script.

Lucas already has shown a talent for selective memory when saying the media made up the whole 9 episodes thing.

I have all the magazine articles and transcripts in book form and magazine form, in official lucasfilm publications like the bantha tracks and the making of empire strikes back.

Never mind it is calling all those journalists like the one who covered star wars in 1977 for rolling stone liars.

He already called Pollock Dale who wrote skywalking a liar and he said all those things he wrote in his book. He had them all on audiotape. Calling the authors book nothing but a "national enquirer piece" because the Coppola stuff he said made Francis madder than hell. and Having his divorce spelled out was probably the breaking point for him.

Anything he cannot spin his own way or have ultimate control over he gets angry about.

They guy is a self labeled Machiavellian dictator over his films. He admits he's a stubborn ass and wants things his own way, but says he won't apologize.