Deep inside a
compelling Washington Post
profile of George Lucas is the Star
Wars creator defending perhaps his most infamous bit of Special
Edition tinkering: having Greedo shoot Han Solo first rather than the
scruffy-looking smuggler taking a pre-emptive action.
In a recent
interview with EW, Harrison Ford refused to take a side on the Who Shot
First debate. “Knock yourself out,” he said. “Have fun with it.” But The Force Awakens director J.J.
Abrams had a firm opinion on the subject when asked during a Sirius XM Town
Hall on Monday if Han shot first. “Hell yes,” Abrams said (the
episode, hosted by PEOPLE and EW editorial director Jess Cagle, will
premiere Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. ET on EW Radio Sirius XM 105).
(Watch at link below.)
But Lucas won’t read that, or your comment below, because he also admitted in the interview that he has “assiduously avoided the Internet since 2000 — no Facebook, no Twitter, no e-mail even.” The first of the oft-derided Star Wars prequel movies, The Phantom Menace, was released in 1999, so that was probably indeed a good time to bail out.
Read that whole WashPost story here, and see both versions of the Han versus Greedo scene above.
By James Hibberd
With many thanks to EW.com
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