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39. Did You Know: George Lucas was paid by Twentieth Century Fox to write the screenplay for Star Wars: A New Hope? He earned only $50,000 for writing the screenplay. Once the film was shot, Lucas invited his friends Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Brian DePalma to screen the final product. Scorsese and DePalma were certain the film was going to be a major flop. In the end, Lucas laughed all the way to the bank, after Star Wars grossed $100 million in three months. Three decades later, Lucas is a billionaire.
64. Did You Know: A radar dish was the inspiration behind Boba Fett’s spaceship? According to Nilo Rodis-Jamero, “Johnston showed me some of the ideas he has for Boba Fett, and I remember asking myself what his spaceship would look like. I remember seeing a radar dish and stopping to sketch it very quickly to see if I could get something out of it. The original design I had was round, but when you looked at it from the side, it became elliptical. For some reason, when I drew it, George thought it was elliptical, so that's what it became. When we were building the ship at ILM, somebody looked at street lamps and pointed out that they looked like Boba's ship. So everyone began to think that was where I got the idea for the design.”
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