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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The whole Alec Guiness hated Star Wars thing has become this bigger then life legend. He was a classically trained serious actor, so when he read the script and signed on he saw it as fairy tale nonsense, But as pointed out above after he saw it in the theatre he came around to it.
The bottom line as well, is if you look at the interviews by people like Fisher and Ford and Mark, they thought that him being in this movie and on the set was essential to the legitimacy of the movie, because frankly the two best known actors were Guiness and Cushing, everyone else was pretty much a unknown.
They also got what is basically actor 101 classes from Guiness who was committed to the process of making the movie, but again until he saw the final product thought it was just a nonsensical movie.
With Solo, he actually loved working with Lucas, and loved the character of Han Solo. His two main issues were the dialogue or as he basically said to Lucas. "You might be able to write this, but we have to read it". And that after the events of ANH and Empire there was really nowhere for Solo to go except to be a hanger on to the main duel, and his death would add weight to the plot.
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From what I understand of Guinness he found the dialogue "ropey" but then was actually given the chance to re-write much of it. In that interview I linked, Guinness was actually given an increase in the share in the profits of the movie for the re-writes he did. Guinness had enough faith in the movie to agree to work on it for a share of the profits. His share was increased from 2% to 2.25% as compensation for the edits he made.
Apparently the problems kept on going. The first cut of Star Wars was also totally non-sensical and awful. Lucas as a whole was apparently constantly writing and re-writing the story as he went along, and changing major plot points. So Guinness not liking the original script, was probably justified as it was apparently awful and had little in common with the finished project.
I found a site with the original scripts. I wonder which one Guinness read:
http://hem.bredband.net/wookiee/development/