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Andrew

Posted: Feb 9 2012, 11:07 PM

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George Lucas Claims That Han Solo Never Shot First In Star Wars (Cinema Blend, February 9, 2012)

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"The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn�t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down." - George Lucas

UPDATE: I've found the script on IMSDB and it makes no mention of Greedo ever firing a shot. Here it is:

GREEDO
That's the idea. I've been looking forward to killing you for a long time.

HAN
Yes, I'll bet you have.

Suddenly the slimy alien disappears in a blinding flash of light. Han pulls his smoking gun from beneath the table as the other patron look on in bemused amazement. Han gets up and starts out of the cantina, flipping the bartender some coins as he leaves.

HAN
Sorry about the mess.

Lucas is an idiot.

Dan	Posted: Mar 24 2012, 06:21 PM
O-2 1st Lieutenant Group: Special Forces Posts: 1,193 Member No.: 8 Joined: 23-November 04	George Lucas has also said Empire Strikes Back was the worst film in the Star Wars series.

Andrew	Posted: Mar 26 2012, 09:07 AM
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Dan	Posted: Apr 8 2012, 09:46 PM
O-2 1st Lieutenant Group: Special Forces Posts: 1,193 Member No.: 8 Joined: 23-November 04	Hey at least Lucas didn't make Han Solo do a dance number. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A

Andrew	Posted: Apr 9 2012, 01:18 AM
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Dref	Posted: Apr 10 2012, 12:33 PM
E-4 Corporal Group: Members Posts: 167 Member No.: 1,507 Joined: 11-July 10	Well, yeah, Lucas is an idiot in many ways ( ) but online scripts ARE far from reliable. Regardless of what the author of the piece above thinks, the IMSDB ANH script is far from a smoking gun. (No pun intended, of course.) I've seen many instances where online scripts (yes, even at IMSDB) have been tampered with and/or gotten mucked up. For instance, one of the most popular ROTJ scripts online has the Falcon blowing up and Lando dying (!) at the final battle but yet Lando magically pops up alive several scenes later! And besides, as I understand it, scenes/scripts are often tinkered with on set, so even if Lucas had scripted Han to just shoot it does not mean that when he got on set he couldn't have changed his mind and now wanted Greedo to shoot first. Not a big fan of Lucas as a person, but fair is fair.

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