Originally posted by: lordjedi
How was ESB a disaster? I know it went over budget, but didn't it also make more money than ANH? I'm sure there was the stress of making a successfull sequel, but other than that, how could any of it be considered a disaster? It was a successful sequel and it guaranteed him the ability to make another movie. If anything, I'd say that ANH was a bigger disaster. He had to redo all the FX shots when he got back from England, fire his entire FX team, and do all kinds of things with almost no time left before the release. But again, it made a ton of money, so in the grand scheme of things, even it wasn't a disaster.
How was ESB a disaster? I know it went over budget, but didn't it also make more money than ANH? I'm sure there was the stress of making a successfull sequel, but other than that, how could any of it be considered a disaster? It was a successful sequel and it guaranteed him the ability to make another movie. If anything, I'd say that ANH was a bigger disaster. He had to redo all the FX shots when he got back from England, fire his entire FX team, and do all kinds of things with almost no time left before the release. But again, it made a ton of money, so in the grand scheme of things, even it wasn't a disaster.
It went over six weeks overschedule, the budget nearly doubled during filming, crew members were sick and injured, John Berry died during filming, Hamill hated the shoot and was the only actor on set for a month, all sorts of mechanical failures occured, ILM was pushed almost past its limits, Gary Kurtz and George Lucas was split up and Carrie Fisher was going through a heavy coke addiction at the time. It was very much a disaster in its production, even if it wasn't an elaborate disaster the way, say Apocalyse Now or Alien 3 was.