Harrison Ford famously told Lucas: “George, you can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it,” while Alec Guinness called the dialogue “lamentable”. Katz tells me: “George didn’t want anyone to know we worked on the [Star Wars] script. Lucas was later nominated for an Oscar for the Star Wars screenplay, while his secret co-writers remained uncredited. When Star Wars was released, Princess Leia’s buns became a phenomenon. Photograph: Julian Wasser/Getty ImagesSo she went to work for Scorsese, editing Taxi Driver, then New York, New York while simultaneously cutting Star Wars.

Source: The Guardian April 26, 2017 13:07 UTC