canofhumdingers said:
walking_carpet said:
thing is, what we saw in 1977 was NOT what lucas described to Fox executives (not to mention he had none of john williams music to set the scene nor ralph mcquarrie and joe johnstons designs).
Actually, some of McQuarrie's ealry concept paintings (such as the one below) were what helped Lucas finally convince Fox execs to take the gamble.
Yes it eventually did. I should have clarified that before he had the designs, it was going nowhere - then once the designs were created (like the one above and the 3p0 desert design), things started moving forward