If you’re a major film studio, and a young filmmaker comes to you with an idea for a sprawling science fantasy franchise that has a chance at being wildly successful, how would you respond? Would you willingly give up any and all rights to the merchandise because of a terrible musical you made a decade prior and are still licking your wounds over your financial loss? If you answered yes to that question, then congratulations, you are 20th Century Fox, and you just gift-wrapped George Lucas billions of dollars because of how badly you bungled a Doctor Dolittle film thanks to your merchandising push.
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