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Article #623938Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Bob Eager
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:02
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:02
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:56:50 -0400, J. Clarke wrote: > On 21 Jun 2018 09:51:48 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > >>On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:30:25 +0000, Huge wrote: >> >>> Budget does not a movie make. For example, these are all better than >>> Star Wars and yet had budgets a fraction of what Lucas spent; "The >>> Girl With All The Gifts", "Under The Skin", "Cargo". >> >>I would add "Dark Star". >> >>(and "Forbidden Planet"!) > > Forbidden Planet did not have a budget "a fraction of what George Lucas > spent". The budget for Star Wars was 11 million in 1977. The budget for > Forbidden Planet was 8 million in 1956, which, adjusted for inflation, > is 18 million in 1977. The budget for "Dark Star" was 60 *thousand* dollars. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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