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Post #173386

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zombie84
Parent topic
New Gary Kurtz interview!
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Date created
26-Jan-2006, 9:40 PM
I wasnt debating the quality of the movies. Titanic went overbudget--whether or not it is a good movie is debatable and irrelevant.

My point was that Kurtz never once did his job right, and Lucas' parting with him is more than justified.

As for the PT being overbudget--not so in the least. At one point, yes, it was surmised that perhaps each episode could be made for 60-70 million, this was around 1993 or 1994, after the success of Young Indy. By the time they actually got to production in 1997, that naive projection was no longer relevant--the budget alloted for TPM was 120 million and it was brought in for 115 million. McCallum really is a great producer, its just a shame that he is responsible for the best-made dissapointment of the decade, while a good-for-nothing hack like Kurtz gets kudos up his ass for tagging along while Lucas was at his peak.