George Lucas fled to Hawaii with Steven Spielberg as audiences watched the premiere of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.
The Big Picture Following the drubbing of his misunderstood THX-1138 and the surprise success of his second feature, American Graffiti, George Lucas looked to the stars for his next directorial effort. But the journey to take Star Wars from page to screen was anything but a walk in the park for the maverick filmmaker, as he faced seemingly insurmountable odds from every angle.
Willing to take a risk, though uncertain over the film's chance at success, Fox negotiated a directing fee of $150,000 rather than the initially proposed $500,000 for Lucas in exchange for granting him rights to merchandising and potential sequels. It would ultimately go down as one of the most lucrative deals in Hollywood history, but at the time, the notion of Star Wars becoming a hit was anything but a foregone conclusion.
Brian De Palma remembers things differently. "The fact that Steven says that only he saw the possibilities of Star Wars, that’s not really true," he told Collider. And De Palma didn't mince words with a particularly scathing critique of the film. Aside from expressing befuddlement over the nature of The Force, De Palma took Lucas to task for what he perceived as a lack of narrative exposition.
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