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| Taral-DLOS wrote: |
Regarding Alec Guinness, I had heard the opposite about him being unhappy at his death. That in fact, the death was his idea.
[quote="Alec Guinness biography on IMDB]Reportedly hated working on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) so much, Guinness claims that Obi-Wan's death was his idea as a means to limit his involvement in the film. Guinness also claims to throw away all Star Wars related fan mail without even opening it. |
| 6 Classics Despised by the People who Created Them, by Cracked wrote: |
| . That's right, one of the most tragic and mentally scarring scenes from your childhood came about because Alec Guinness thought George Lucas was a talentless hack. |
I stopped it there because I heard an interview with Guinness himself on a CD that came with "The Star Wars Vault" where he said that the more he read of the script for SW, the more he got into the idea, and that he ultimately enjoyed the experience.
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