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Warhol's manager and film-making collaborator Paul Morrissey signed on as director of the production, which was then renamed Man on the Moon. Waite managed to persuade Andy Warhol to come on board as producer. They went to New York to raise money, performing the songs to potential backers as part of their pitch. When financing for the film seemed to be going nowhere, Phillips and WaГЇte focused their energy into making the musical happen again. Phillips would later maintain that Lucas got the idea to make Star Wars from Space. In 1972, Phillips also got a copy of the script to director George Lucas through his daughter Mackenzie Phillips, who was one of the stars of Lucas's film American Graffiti. Holzer took the project to Ray Stark, producer of Funny Girl, who brought the script to the attention of Barbra Streisand, while Holzer tried to hook Jack Nicholson for the male lead. Phillips then attempted to generate interest in a film version of the book with the help of real estate heir Leonard Holzer (a producer on the Stones documentary, Gimme Shelter and the former husband of Warhol superstar, Baby Jane Holzer).

Butler hired a young director called Michael Bennett to work on the project, but he and Phillips did not gel and Bennett resigned during dress rehearsals for the production at the Aquarius Theater in Los Angeles. Initial funding for the project came from producer Michael Butler, who had brought the stage musical Hair to Broadway.

Phillips envisioned that the lead role of the astronaut would be played by either Elvis or Ricky Nelson, both of whom he was friendly with. Phillips worked on a script and wrote songs for Space over a period of two years with his third wife, GeneviГЁve WaГЇte.

The initial title for the project was simply Space.

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Soon after completing work on his debut album John, the Wolf King of L.A., John Phillips came up with the idea for a space-themed musical project, inspired by his viewing of the July 1969 TV broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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