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Niteshade007 said:He was good early on in his career. But after Return of the Jedi I think he lost his touch. I mean, have you seen The Bodyguard? Awful.
As I understand it, The Bodyguard was a script he'd written quite a while earlier and that had floated around in development hell for some time before finally being made, and when it did get produced it was pretty different from what Kasdan originally wanted it to be; I believe he expressed disappointment with how it turned out at the time it was released, so I'm not sure it's the best indicator of his writing ability now (or at the time it came out).
According to IMDB, this was Kasdan's first screenplay, and the proposal was rejected 67 times. The first go-round was in the early '70s, intended to star Diana Ross and Steve McQueen.