Such a pity they didn't have her do all of them up front.

Yeah. I imagine Lucas might not have had the connexions at the beginning, and maybe Brackett wouldn't have been interested. Alec Guinness, after all, wasn't enthusiastic until he first saw the completed first film.

But it's really too bad she died before Return of the Jedi. The fact that Lawrence Kasdan was carried over suggests Brackett might have been, too. Then again, Jedi also suffered from an inferior director . . .