imperialscum said:

It's been pretty well documented that it was because he had already introduced Chewie as a character that can fly a spaceship and have intelligence and that Wookiees could no longer be the "primitive" race to defeat the Empire that George wanted.

I agree, that was one of the main reasons too.

Even Gary Kurtz said that he became disillusioned with George after ESB when he noticed that his priorities had changed from Story and character and focused more on selling toys.

Well not "even". Kurtz was pretty much the one who came up with that crap. It was in that interview where he tried to convince people that he left because Lucas changed his priorities... to suppress the fact that he got fired because ESB spiralled over-budget.

yeh, right. he got fired because of the budget problems with ESB. You don't seriously believe that revisionist bull do you? If that crap is supposed to be true then wouldn't he have been fired once ESB was finished and NOT well after this had already been released and they had already started work on Jedi? They fell out over the direction Jedi was taking and they parted ways. If it was down to him being fired over ESB's budget then he would have been gone long before work started on Jedi.

It's so easy to see through the revisionist lies.