Posted on Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 by Danielle Ryan
Artists often show their friends and fellow creatives their work before it’s finished. It’s a great way to get feedback and new ideas, and you hope your friends will be more honest with you than people who rely on you for a paycheck. Apparently, that level of honesty was a bit too much when director
George Lucas screened his unfinished cut of
Star Wars: A New Hope
for his Hollywood friends, including filmmakers
Steven Spielberg and
Brian De Palma. This screening is the stuff of legend – the only person who was positive at all was Spielberg. (To everyone else’s credit, Lucas had substituted airplane footage for unfinished special effects shots, which is more than a little jarring.)