[Neo]

Originally posted by ray gower
The '78 attempt was over ambitious.

The producers had high hopes of making it the definitive film, then found that a/ they ran out of money and b/ nobody was going to sit still for eight hours to watch it. I'm also told it was incredibly long in production (6 or 7 years).

It ended up trying to cram the entire trilogy in a single film that was patched together quickly from the parts that had been completed, simply to try and pay for it what had been done.

The result?
Much of the early parts of the story are in place, but the later parts were progressively more rushed, large formative parts not represented at all.

There was enough there to show it really would have been a real humdinger of a film, if it had been finished. But not as one film!

is this the animated one u are talking about