[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by blankall

Hard to say what's reality and what's rumour, but Lucas apparently made some awful re-writes from ROTJ for the purpose of selling toys.

Changing the wookies to Ewokes.

Han was suppossed to die.

Luke was supposed to somberly walk off, spaghetti Western style. Instead we get a family BBQ.

The film was supposed to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" and be a lot darker.

That was Fords request, he went to Lucas and said that killing Han made sense and would create a sense of greater loss in the GFFA, he also didn't want to be known as Solo forever

That wasn't Lucas, I don't believe, that was another writer or David Lynch's idea ("I can't remember who) that Luke would walk off into the sunset all sad and dark and stuff.
Lucas put the ending in there that we saw because at that point he didn't want to do anymore sequels to Star Wars, the story as a whole was the rise and fall and redemption of Anakin, and when that all happened it was over, happy ending time.

That was extremely early in the script writes of the third movie, but George came to the realization that he had written the Jedi to not be creatures of revenge and changed it.

Frankly sitting there and going Lucas is crazy because of what could have been is a bit foolish, if you look at most early writes of awesome movies they would have been particularly bad scripts and bad concepts or had cringe worthy moments.

In the end, Lucas has to be slammed for Jar Jar in the Phantom Menace, the Ewoks in Jedi, and he should have really hired a dialogue writter instead of trying to write it himself

(Yeah I'm looking at you the whole I hate Sand conversation).