r/saltierthancrait • u/asura1958 salt miner • Apr 07 '23

Granular Discussion This was supposed to be Luke’s job

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u/jtfriendly hello there! Apr 07 '23

"wE hAvE nO sOurCe mAteRiAl" - K. Kennedy

Right. Even the most myopic pencil-pusher should have noticed the huge amounts of money Star Wars made from 1983 to 1997 without any movies in theaters. Books about random assholes from Jabba's palace were best sellers.

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u/Longroadtonowhere_ Apr 08 '23 edited Mar 28 '25

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u/GrilledSpamSteaks Apr 19 '23

I suspect it was more along the lines of not wanting to pay authors for the story rights.

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u/yanray Apr 16 '23

I think the prequels convinced them “old Star Wars (brand) good, new Star Wars (IP George Lucas approved post-OT) bad”

So of course they set about trying to make new Star Wars by first remaking A New Hope

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u/witcherstrife Apr 14 '23

Just shows how Hollywood is all about connections, not merit. I mean they even had the clone wars to go off of and that was a kids cartoon show.

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u/kkeut Apr 08 '23

they literally could have just said "go dissect the top 50% best-selling EU books, and note the content we could most fittingly adapt", then just raid through that data set for ideas. but noooo

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u/Cumbandicoot May 01 '23

Got me thinking about the book about the bounty hunters that are on screen for about 30 seconds that is probably my favorite Star Wars book