Ronster said:

Yes I would Have to agree with you, I would like to have seen the first cut though.

Actually I made a mistake with Robocop 2 It's Peter Weller that was really upset about his character becoming de-humanised further. Not Studio involvement it was Kershner's choice to cut it apparently which is a bit strange going from Empire a very human film...

But Marquand was not on the same big hitting scale as Kershner he must have been far easier to tell him what to do. But I don't think ROTJ was Chopped about as much as ESB was in Editing. Or ateast I don't think it was?

ROTJ has a lot going for it still but I think Lucus did not want a repeat of Empire where it seems George and Kershner both had to compromise on final cut. Or George was making more compromises than he wanted to.

George wanted more control Back on ROTJ and he got it.

At the time, he was also more interested in controlling costs than anything else. The Secret History book has a lot on how out-of-control TESB seemed during production. Obviously it made that money back many times over, but to Lucas it seemed like there was a real chance that trusting Kershner and Kurtz would have bankrupted him. He wasn't ready to go through that again with ROTJ so they were gone.