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" On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie. "

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" As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further down the field and to make things better for the rest of the company and the rest of the industry. "

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