Bingowings said:
I'm pretty sure he made Star Wars to make money from getting us to watch robots hit each other and kids drive too fast.
His friends thought a bit of story and characterisation would be a good idea.
In the seventies George listened to his friends.
In the eighties George discovered that puppets were easier to control and burps were funny.
After Jurassic Park he came to the conclusion that puppets were so 20th Century and farts and poop were funny.
I think people forget this too often. I highly reccomend everyone on this forum read "The Making of Star Wars". The old George was very different from billionaire George.
When working on Star Wars, Lucas revised the script multiple times. The first draft was pretty much completely different from the final draft. This was because he was getting continuous feedback from (now famous) directors that he graduated film school with. They would critique each others works, and George would listen, making appropriate changes.
Do you think Lucas did this for the prequels? Hell, do you think he did this for Jedi? It's obvious that he didn't like the lack of control he had over Empire with Kersh in charge of things, so for Jedi, he decided to choose someone he knew he could control. Hell, he even admits it:
"I've got to find a director* who's willing to give up some of his domain to me and is willing to work with me and accept the fact that he's essentially doing a movie that's been established, that ultimately I'll have the final say."
*replace director with EVERYONE ON THE SET when talking about prequels