Originally posted by: Jumpman
There is no evidence that Lucas is in it for the money and not in it for the art, which it comes to him as a director. Period. Him milking Star Wars has everything to do with keeping his company afloat. They're not WB, Paramount, or Universal. They don't have a cascade of films in a library.
Then how do you explain the accounts where George argued that Empire should have been made differently in order to make more money? Sounds at least a little detached to me.
Originally posted by: Jumpman
And you don't spend from November of 1994 to April of 2005 and hundreds of millions of your own money, just to make a quick buck. You just don't do it. That's 11 years he could've done numerous amounts of projects(easier ones) to generate more money.
There is no evidence that Lucas is in it for the money and not in it for the art, which it comes to him as a director. Period. Him milking Star Wars has everything to do with keeping his company afloat. They're not WB, Paramount, or Universal. They don't have a cascade of films in a library.
Then how do you explain the accounts where George argued that Empire should have been made differently in order to make more money? Sounds at least a little detached to me.
Originally posted by: Jumpman
And you don't spend from November of 1994 to April of 2005 and hundreds of millions of your own money, just to make a quick buck. You just don't do it. That's 11 years he could've done numerous amounts of projects(easier ones) to generate more money.
Hardly. There are practically no other projects that Lucas could have begun that would have made him as much money as new Star Wars films. In addition to the films making automatic profit (even if they had been horrible), you’re talking about a vast, drastically-reinvigorated line of merchandise. There’s a lot of money there.
He spent a lot of money making the prequels, true, but he could afford to do that based upon the guaranteed profits. Plus, considering all of the techniques he was trying to develop and all of the investment he was putting into Lucasfilm that spent money will pay off for years to come in the filmmaking world.