ED: We did the film for about eight million.

Banking when I did the film in 1987 was not this business it has become.

How did the film come about for you?

How much did the film leave behind?

Now why did the film stop?

Harry Gibson's adaptation for Jacket Productions necessarily pulls a narrative structure from the episodic book, as did the film script.

So what went wrong, and why did the film end up buried on Netflix, rather than getting a respectable cinema screening?

Not only did the film inflate credentials of some of the contributors; some of them appear to have been made up altogether.

After all, not only did the film make a staggering amount of money, but a disproportionate amount of that loot was taken in this territory.

Did the film play out like you imagined it would?

Did the film-makers manage what the Vikings and Lord Kenneth Clark failed to do and reduce Star Wars Island to a pile of damp rubble.