When Tippet said this was he talking about the prequels?

"Pepsi Cola or whatever, paid him $3 billion to do the next three movies as long as he worked and directed it, so..."

If that is true it puts them in an entirely new perspective. And proves something i have known all along he only returned to do star wars as a money making venture, and for a nest egg for his children after he is gone.

Also to keep his companies afloat, films like Howard the Duck, radioland murders, or the young indy show don't exactly make the bucks.

For the Phil Tippet's and Richard Edlund's of the world history has turned against them with the replacement of real practical effects and models with cgi. And Dennis Muren is one of the culprits.

Still The guy who kept the old ILM in business under another name had to go bankrupt right? Lucas with his billions could have kept it open as an idiosyncrasy or as a kind of window to the past or museum, but that is not good business.

Wasn't it called Kerner optical or something?