Carrie Fisher’s career as a script doctor became the stuff of legend in the 1990s. Fisher was responsible for fixing up
Hook in 1991,
Sister Act in 1992,
Lethal Weapon 3 in 1992 and
The Wedding Singer in 1998. In 1992,
Entertainment Weekly called Carrie Fisher “one of the most sought after doctors in town”—high praise, and one of the only accolades that Fisher would ever receive in printed form, given that she
was not credited by name as a writer for any of the films in which she had a hand.
There are some projects to which Fisher might not have wanted her name attached, however. Fisher has been said to be
one of the script doctors on board to fix all three of the
Star Wars prequel scripts. Even Fisher’s writing skills and
Star Wars savvy must not have been enough to save those projects! Not all patients can be cured, as every doctor knows.