We Don’t Care What You Say, George: Han Shot First!

In a recent interview, George Lucas has gotten even more delusional than usual:

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.

This is wrong on so many levels, as the original post points out.  Lucas’ insistence that he should be allowed to present his vision of Star Wars is all well and good, but on this point he is dead wrong.