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Originally Posted by blankall
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/ |
I still loved the scene where Obi-Wan meets Luke for the first time and admits he's Obi-Wan.
And also when he talks about the Jedi Knights.
TBH, Alec Guiness was the Ian McDarmid of the OT.