Even George Lucas' wife thought Star Wars would be a flop
Near Christmas, Marcia [Lucas] left for Los Angeles to work on New York, New York after an impassioned phone call from Martin Scorsese, whose editor had died before the movie could be completed. It was a move that irritated [George] Lucas, who still disapproved of Scorsese and his drugs and multiple girlfriends.
"For George, the whole thing was that Marcia was going off to this den of iniquity," said screenwriter Willard Huyck (who had worked with Lucas on American Graffiti). "George was a family homebody. He couldn't believe the stories that Marcia told him. George would fume because Marcia was running with these people. She loved being with Marty."
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