![]() ![]() I said this was a good venture, and I could take it to the studios… they do marketing and stuff but they don’t interpret it properly. The thing is, okay, if I spend $4.5 million, then on the advertising and the prints and everything another $4.5 million, there is a little bit of profit in there, if it makes $16 million. ![]() Yes, I started out saying this is a fairly viable project, I thought it would make roughly $16 million. ![]() I had done sociological research on what makes hit films – it is part of the sociological bent in me I can’t help it.Īnd yet you encountered a lot of resistance on this project? Right, and that is really the reason I did it. So that was the mainspring of your decision to make Star Wars. I think speculative fiction is very valid but they forgot the fairy tales and the dragons and Tolkien and all the real heroes. Once the atomic bomb came, everybody got into monsters and science and what would happen with this and what would happen with that. I didn’t want to make a 2001, I wanted to make a space fantasy that was more in the genre of Edgar Rice Burroughs that whole other end of space fantasy that was there before science took it over in the Fifties. Stanley Kubrick made the ultimate science-fiction movie and it is going to be very hard for somebody to come along and make a better movie, as far as I’m concerned. Well, I had a real problem because I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, “You know there’s no sound in outer space”. You firmly establish that at the beginning of Star Wars with the words: “A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” ![]()
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