[Ingtar]

Hollywood screwing and eating their own - nothing new. No movie will make a profit any longer with their book keeping.

[Seruzawa]

Lucas has really proved himself to be a big Hollywood fraud. Notice that his best movies, i.e. THX, Raiders, SW:IV-VI, american Graffiti, were all made before he became so powerful that no one could tell him, “No”. Now that he has total control of his films they reek. SWI-III were an incoherent incompetent mess.

Now, ripping off the people who made him what he is, whose credit he steals, is beneath contempt. Typical Hollywood Mogul: Talk like a Hippie, act like a Mafia Don.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

I find your lack of funds disturbing.

[Richard Kimball]

William Shatner said in an interview that according to Desi-Lu productions, the original Star Trek series still hasn't turned a profit. One of the reasons it took so long to do the first Star Trek movie was because the actors, particularly Leonard Nimoy, held out for enough money to compensate for being stiffed out of the royalties all those years.

On the subject of the thread, Lucas has been a dick forever. He recut the scene in Return of the Jedi where Vader is unmasked, using a different actor, because Prowse had mentioned that his face would finally be seen.

All that said, James Earl Jones did the voice, so any tall actor could have played Vader. He was essentially a special effect before there were real special effects.

Lucas ripped off the comic book series The New Gods to create the original Star Wars series, and of course, the original Doctor Doom. Just about all of those movies were ripped off from Jack Kirby. Let's see. Dr. Doom's face was damaged so badly he wore a mask and you never saw his face. In the New Gods, Darkseid (pronounced Dark Side) was ruler of the planet Apocalypse, while New Genesis was protected by a young God named Orion. It was later revealed that Orion was actually Darkseid's son.

Lucas is a dick and a rip off artist.