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<blockquote data-quote="TheLe" data-source="post: 1734494" data-attributes="member: 3981">American Graffiti - Star Wars - Universal - Fox - LucasFor the record, this is incorrect. Star Wars (A New Hope) was actually greenlit well before American Graffiti, and it was totally financed by FOX Studios for 12 million dollars (which was very expensive at that time). For Star Wars, George Lucas sacrificed his own fee in exchange for the sequel rights and merchandising control (although I think Lucas is a moron in general, this was clearly a brilliant move on his part). Money from American Graffiti actually went to UNIVERSAL Studios.Lucas' money for his Empire didn't really roll in until Empire Strikes Back (pun intended). Please be careful when invoking the name of holy trilogy&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ~Le</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheLe, post: 1734494, member: 3981"] [b]American Graffiti - Star Wars - Universal - Fox - Lucas[/b] For the record, this is incorrect. Star Wars (A New Hope) was actually greenlit well before American Graffiti, and it was totally financed by FOX Studios for 12 million dollars (which was very expensive at that time). For Star Wars, George Lucas sacrificed his own fee in exchange for the sequel rights and merchandising control (although I think Lucas is a moron in general, this was clearly a brilliant move on his part). Money from American Graffiti actually went to UNIVERSAL Studios. Lucas' money for his Empire didn't really roll in until Empire Strikes Back (pun intended). Please be careful when invoking the name of holy trilogy ;) ~Le [/QUOTE]

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