mrbenja0618 said:

Wow.... The man really has no real excuse as to why it was that bad....wow...

Star Wars took nearly as long the treatment was written in '73 and the final script was delivered in 76 and they revised as the shooting went on, even in the first part of the real filming script Luke was Luke Starkiller until he became Skywalker.

About 4 years.

Phantom took a little longer, but Lucas was rusty 16 years is a long ass time.

Supposedly Carrie Fisher did an uncredited polish on the Phantom Menace finished script, she was one of the first people Lucas gave a copy to read.

Also Jonathan Hales CO-wrote the Attack of the Clones script.

Lucas appears to have written Sith all on his lonesome and also the film started really in the art department without a script and even the finished film deviated from the initial script in how anakin's turn happened.

Only Lucas has said what he changed the initial finished script has never been leaked or published.