Originally posted by Alliance
....20CFOX helped him. He wasn't fully independant until ESB and 20CFOX still distributed.
True. But they only started paying him around 1976 or even the beginning of 1977. He was in production since 1975... and he paid everyone by himself. Without that effort he would never have gotten any money from Fox.
Originally posted by queeq
True. But they only started paying him around 1976 or even the beginning of 1977. He was in production since 1975... and he paid everyone by himself. Without that effort he would never have gotten any money from Fox.
And without Fox to market and distribute the film, he would have been bankrupt.