Bingowings said:

I don't mean to be nasty

And yet you do. You could easily omit this entrance and cut to the chase.

Other than being Lucas's directorial prophylactic he didn't do much.

1. This thread was created merely to pay homage to the director of ROTJ by giving a link to the petition, not to discuss what you personally think or not of him. There have to be lots of threads dedicated to this subject you may want to visit instead.

2. If you wanted my opinion on the whole matter of ROTJ/Marquand then I expressed it in one started for this purpose (ROTJ is the best Star Wars movie), though, I guess, I wrote too much for someone to read it from cover to cover - there're too many letters, that's forgivable (sarcasm).

3. If you don't want to support this petition, it's your choice. Other than that I don't see any sense to start a similar debate here. Especially, to chew over one and the same crapola coming from many years of internet gossip, various agenda-driven media sources and persons.

The Richard Burton stage would make more sense

What does Richard Burton have in common with the Star Wars? And if you think so you can start your petition too at change.org. Hope you'll succeed. Oh, and May the Force be with You!