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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Rian Johnson wrote the script and KK approved it. This was not a collaborative effort and if it was, credit would have been listed in the end credits of the film and registered with the Writer's Guild of America for all to see.
I have a good friend that's written several blockbuster movies and once, a manager tried to claim 33% of the writing credits because he managed the star and co-writer. Lawyers were involved and it went to Arbitration.
My friend won the case and was given his 50% share but he'll never work with those people again.
If that happened on a Star Wars film, it would be the talk of Hollywood so the bottom line is that it didn't happen.
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Actually producers almost always (and frequently do) contribute to scripts and stories and provide copious notes that are routinely ignored by the writer (which is why you have a whole second business in re-writing scripts). The WGA rules don’t allow producers to claim credit on scripts unless there is a pre-existing written deal between the writer and producer. There are other exemptions to the rule if the writer is also the director.
I find it next to impossible to believe there weren’t all kinds of back-and-forth on the film but given the end product and how it tears down many of the set-ups from TFA I could be wrong.