Alan Ladd, Jr. offered George Lucas some of the only support from the studio. He dealt with scrutiny from board members over the rising budget and complex screenplay drafts. Initially, Twentieth Century Fox approved eight million dollars for the movie. Producer Gary Kurtz said: "we proceeded to pick a production plan and do a more final budget with a British art department and look for locations in North Africa, and kind of pulled together some things. Then, it was obvious that eight million wasn't going to do it, they had approved eight million." After requests from the team that "it had to be more", the executives "got a bit scared". For two weeks, Lucas and his crew "didn't really do anything except kind of pull together new budget figures". At the same time, after production fell behind schedule, Ladd told Lucas he had to finish production within a week, or he would be forced to shut down production. Kurtz said that "it came out to be like 9.8 or .9 or something like that, and in the end they just said, 'Yes, that's okay, we'll go ahead.'" The crew split into three units, with those units led by Lucas, Kurtz, and Production Supervisor Robert Watts. Under the new system, the project met the studio's deadline.

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