brash_stryker said:

Quoted from that article:

"The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”

The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leiagrappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it."

If Ady can pull anything close to that off, he's truly a magician.

Sorry it's off topic.

Ady's project is about restoring the OT to its full glory, not to make it something entirely different, as Kurtz envisioned it. That would be a FanEdit, which this project is not.

So yes, indeed, it's off topic :)