Rajvik Wrote:Well I doubt Lucas would have sold the rights to Disney to begin with. Production would be dirt cheap because the Warsies would practically be falling over each other to volunteer.
Hell I could see the advertisement now. Welcome to Lucas Studios New Bespin, where the force is with you.
Not really. Lucas did seem to have sold for more reasons than just money. He was pretty depressed that fans didn't like the PT, for instance, and got better after selling.
More importantly, while the fen could offer a bunch of new opportunities, they'd still wrack up a heck of a budget. Teaching Hamill to fly, designing all the props, the expense of ordering custom craft, princple photography issues with trying to film dogfights in space, filming locations, paying to develop the puppets for some of the creatures, trying to figure out how to film star destroyer sized capital ships, the expense of trying to film outside the system if they went for that, stuff like the crashed ISD and SSD (the latter would have to be CGI due to the insanity of that shot).
It'd have a more authentic feel, but it might be even more expensive, might be marginally cheaper, might be that the fen have to sulk after yelling at the studios that they could totally do that stunt physically.
Oh, and the Boskone War, can't forget that that would have warped filming concerns.