HAN SHOOTS FIRST

[kortanaskew]

Dunno, if this is a hoax. But apparently hits USA TODAY tomorrow.

I even e-mailed old Harry to see if he can sniff it out beforehand..

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1867436

Apparently the OT, comes to DVD completely untouched.

[St. Alphonzo]

Damn, my original OT Laserdisc box set will be worth diddly squat now.

[raasnio]

Who cares? I'm all about the Star Wars films, but this release, if real, will only be good for comparisons. I still prefer the OT: Special Edition DVD box set.

[Bob Samonkey]

That can't be real can it??!?

[Lord Voldemoo]

That can't be real can it??!?

of course it is. I'm an enormous SW fan, and I'm sure I'll buy it, but this is just another way for lucasfilm to squeeze some extra bucks outta us fanboys...

[Leckomaniac]

I have the VHS copies of this...but I will probably end up buying these.

Lucas has done it again. I wonder if the vaseline used to cover the tires on the Speeder will still be visible like it is on my VHS copy?

[St. Alphonzo]

Damn, my original OT Laserdisc box set will be worth diddly squat now.

you've got one of those too?!
awesome!

at first i was like "yessssss!"
but now, thanks to your financial wit, St. A, im pissed.

id like to be the first to put my ass and reputation on the line and call bullshit on this. i dont think its gonna happen. i could be wrong, and if so, well, lucas has positioned himself squarely in the way of another 50 bucks from me. goddamnit.

Although it would be nice to not have to change discs three times during each movie...

EDIT: Damn post-jumping. It's getting worse, isn't it?

[Brocktune]

Damn, my original OT Laserdisc box set will be worth diddly squat now.

you've got one of those too?!
awesome!

at first i was like "yessssss!"
but now, thanks to your financial wit, St. A, im pissed.

id like to be the first to put my ass and reputation on the line and call bullshit on this. i dont think its gonna happen. i could be wrong, and if so, well, lucas has positioned himself squarely in the way of another 50 bucks from me. goddamnit.

[Brocktune]

vasceline (sp?)

vaseline.

vasceline sounds like some sort of pharmeceutical that cleans out your arteries.
funny, but incorrect.

[austenandrews]

I doubt it's true. We all know it was BS when Lucas asserted that he'd never, ever release the originals on DVD. But this seems a bit too soon.

If it is true, though, I'll be buying it. And most likely they will be the ones I watch on occasion.

[papalazeru]

Never bought a copy cos they useed to be shown routinely on television about 10 years ago, one after the other...my fave was always the Chistmas with "empire".

I wouldnt buy it if I were you. Wouldnt give Lucas the satisfaction of knowing that he can release, re-release and re-edit, then do a nostalgic release.

Smells like capitalism to me.

Lucas: "I want my pound of flesh!"

[bamf]

I seem to remember in a talkback a long time ago (internet time months can be years) someone sayin that Lucas was going to wait for the format war to get started, dump the OT untouched on standard dvd, then start releasing everything all over again on blueray/hddvd. I hope this is the start because i have bitched to no end about not having the OT on dvd to my friends. Still, sounds to good to be real.

[Jumpman]

Seems like the report was true. The Official Site reports that this set comes out in September.

What the hell changed Lucas' mind?!

And their two disc sets included the 2004 editions and the Unaltered Editions.

[RogueScribner]

IT IS TRUE!!!

http://starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/news20060503.html

From StarWars.com!!!

In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983.

W00t!

[Chairman Kaga]

I wish I knew some people now I knew a few years ago for an I told you so.....Does this make me a bad person?

[Neo Zeed]

Thank god! No more wussy Han Solo and bad CGI-ed Jabba..

[Chairman Kaga]

Smells like capitalism to me.

I doubt that is the main reason. Sure diehards will buy it but the general audience who didn't care that he changed them in the first place and who already own the current boxset will not be impressed. I think the hardcore fans make up a small percentage of the dvd buying market.

[raasnio]

Thank god! No more wussy Han Solo and bad CGI-ed Jabba..

You've never seen RotJ?

[Theta]

That can't be real can it??!?

of course it is. I'm an enormous SW fan, and I'm sure I'll buy it, but this is just another way for lucasfilm to squeeze some extra bucks outta us fanboys...

Fuck it, it's worth it. I caved like a little bitch and bought the first box, I will cheerfully bend over and buy the second, just to score a point for film history.

[StarWarsRedux]

Hopefully, this means we'll also get some real work done on the OT films, like new scenes involving the Senate, Bail Organa, Palpatine, Alderann and Coruscant in general in this or future releases. Now that Lucas is letting the purists get what they want, he can get around to inserting what he wants into his movies without criticism.

Now, if only Hideo Kojima would give into fan pressure and release Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake as it originially appeared on the MSX console with Sean Connery as Big Boss, Michael Madson/Mel Gibson as Snake and Richard Crenna as Colonel Campbell...

[Eric G]

I will be one of the douches who goes out and buys this bloody thing.
I have a copy of the OT in original format burnt on DVD, (not to mention the VHS boxset I have), but I would still want an official copy.
Nostalgia more than anything....

[Tubbs Tattsyrup]

FUCKING A!

I'm excited. The one thing is - will it be cleaned up a la the 2004 DVD editions? Like the prints cleaned and all that? Cos while I'm all for the original edits of the movies, I want the transfer to look pretty too.

[Chairman Kaga]

People are questioning that as well....since the article doesn't mention cleaned and spiffy THX.

[Tubbs Tattsyrup]

I guess there's nostalgia value in a mono soundtrack and dirty prints, but I mean, it's fucking Star Wars. You want it to look and sound good.

[St. Alphonzo]

I guess there's nostalgia value in a mono soundtrack and dirty prints, but I mean, it's fucking Star Wars. You want it to look and sound good.

This'll be the Dolby edition... two months after you buy it, Lucas will announce the THX edition will be coming out in Summer, 2007.

[Chairman Kaga]

I guess there's nostalgia value in a mono soundtrack and dirty prints, but I mean, it's fucking Star Wars. You want it to look and sound good.

This'll be the Dolby edition... two months after you buy it, Lucas will announce the THX edition will be coming out in Summer, 2007.

I really don't see that. Compare the avalanche of VHS versions from the 80's to the handful of versions since the 95 THX vhs boxset. If they were that interested they could have been pumping out DVD versions for the last decade.

[AtomicHyperbole]

I will be one of the douches who goes out and buys this bloody thing.
I have a copy of the OT in original format burnt on DVD, (not to mention the VHS boxset I have), but I would still want an official copy.
Nostalgia more than anything....

/signed

I was about to burn my mid-eighties VHS's onto DVD too.

[RogueScribner]

FUCKING A!

I'm excited. The one thing is - will it be cleaned up a la the 2004 DVD editions? Like the prints cleaned and all that? Cos while I'm all for the original edits of the movies, I want the transfer to look pretty too.

USAToday.com

The original films' video quality will not match up to that of the restored versions. "It is state of the art, as of 1993, and that's not as good as state of the art 2006," Ward says.

So I'm thinking either the laserdisc transfer or the print they cleaned up just prior to working on the Special Editions.

[Leckomaniac]

I still can't believe its true.

I can't WAIT to get my hands on these.

[TheButcher]

I never thought it would happen.
http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/news20060503.html

I guess there's nostalgia value in a mono soundtrack and dirty prints, but I mean, it's fucking Star Wars. You want it to look and sound good.

This'll be the Dolby edition... two months after you buy it, Lucas will announce the THX edition will be coming out in Summer, 2007.

I really don't see that. Compare the avalanche of VHS versions from the 80's to the handful of versions since the 95 THX vhs boxset. If they were that interested they could have been pumping out DVD versions for the last decade.

In 2007 it will be the high-definition version that Lucas will release.



It's just a matter of time before Lucas makes three more SW movies.
Call me crazy but I think it will happen.

[austenandrews]

Well strip my circuits! It's the real deal, eh? Cool.

[so sorry]

wow.
i'm not sure how to feel actually.
after the crap prequels, i may have lost my undying love for all things SW...
i would actually have to think long and hard about buying these considering that i have the boxed set already.

maybe i can sell my existing DVDs to some shlub...

[banthafodderUK]

I want the 'Eric G' version with the pervy stormtroopers!!! Whens that one coming out??????

[The Ginger Man]

**doing the happy dance**

[You Know My Name]

Next big Star Wars news: Episodes VII-IX will in fact be made!

[banthafodderUK]

hey man - according to supershadow.com (yeah i know the wan*er is a complete liar) he's actually writing the sequel trilogy with old 52 chins himself!

[Doc Holliday]

I dunno....I suspect I'll end up buying it (what with mind-tricks working on the weak, of which I am one)...but it genuinely feels like a bit of me dies each time Lucas does this.

I rate George Lucas....I think the good he contributes far outweighs the bad....I mean...I've never seen or heard him say that he thinks he's a great director for example.

But in the last 5-6 years he does seem to have made a habit of saying he's not going to do something - then far too soon after does a complete U-turn. What happened to the "Now I've done all 6 I can concentrate on smaller projects". It turned into 100 episodes confirmed for Star Wars TV Series is what.

I just want to respect the man today for more than his actions of yesterday, if that makes any kind of sense?

[Brocktune]

ahhhh

it has never felt so good to be so wrong.

[Doc Holliday]

Next big Star Wars news: Episodes VII-IX will in fact be made!

Oh for fucks sake (diminishing footsteps, door slams)

[MasterWhedon]

I'm waiting for the final, fuck-all, ginormo box set that you KNOW is coming a few years away with all six films bundled as one, Special Editions and Originals altogether.

Truth told, I like a number of additions in the Special Editions, but could do without a few others. Honestly, I'd love to be able to do my own edit over all six films and trim out the little snags.

That said, fuck it. I own me my Star Wars and I don't need to own it 17 times.

[Doc Holliday]

Yup MW, I like your style. Though if the above is anything to go by, even the all 6 box-set is simply filler until the WTFT gets made (yup, thatd be the What The Fuck Trilogy)

Lets face it - we're all going to be posting thirty years from now (probably by thought alone by then) abut how episodes 13-15 should never have been made, ruined the careful work of the Dodecahedrolgy (Ummmm......Adam, help! What term should I have really used!)
and bodes very badly for the recently announced 9-picture deal to continue the franchise........

.....and yet, we'll all buy it.....and again, and again

[Doc Holliday]

I see absolutely no reason why you should be exempt from The Grand Fleecing, as history will come to regard this.

Go and buy this set (it will undoubtedley be good) and start saving for the next reinvention, which normally raises its ugly head in the run-in to Xmas, in the UK at least.

Last I heard the 6 volume set is closer to three than two years away....but you only have to read this thread to see how much stock you should put in that kind of info.....it could just as easily be announced 6 months from now.

Join the ride!

[sleepflower]

Considering I do not own any of the original star wars, could this possibly be the set I buy?

My mum has them on VHS, but I havent lived with her for 5 years.

Sould I wait until the 6 film set? Is there ANY idea of when they will be out?

[MasterWhedon]

It's really sad, we all keep saying, "Okay, I'll only buy ONE MORE set..."

[Doc Holliday]

will these be BluRay or HD DVDs?


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, the insanity!!!!!!!

Seriously? I reckon neither - seems to me that LucasFilm only release on current technology once the Next Big Step is less than twelve months away from being commonplace in our homes. I mean how long has DVD been around as dominant to the outgoing VHS? Bloody years. What, the OT couldn't have been done any sooner? Yeh right. And don't give me that "I've been so busy working on the prequel trilogy" crap Lucas - it could have been done within 12-18 months as long ago as 2000 and you know it.

Then begins the 2-3 year period of going without, the denial, the pain - perhaps liberally peppered with some nonsense re-releases - improved sound, added scenes and the like. They just make us want it more.

We'll get our HD and Blue Rays once people have started replacing their TV's with holographic projectors or whatever else is coming next......and don't expect it to be any time soon neither.

As the man in black says himself:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[so sorry]

will these be BluRay or HD DVDs?


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, the insanity!!!!!!!

[sleepflower]

Oh yeah I'll wait for Blu Ray

[Doc Holliday]

Oh yeah I'll wait for Blu Ray

Dude, whichever one you get, you'll be looking at another longingly within 12 months....its just the way it is......but, before I get too angry about finding Lucas' dick in my wallet everytime I open it....they are great great great films and I'll still be buying them years from now.......

[King Psyz]

the only way I'd want to see episodes 7-9 at this point is if he handed off writing duties to some of the EU writers who have helped shaped the time frame after ROTJ. Mostly because those who are even remotely interested in the EU know the basics, Vader has a clone that's "activated", Luke retarts the Jedi order, Han and Leia have kids and they're powerfull Jedis, Chewy gets killed, ect.

The other thing he needs to do is hand them off to other directors ala ESB, as it's largely considered the best of the films for a reason...

[colonel_lugz]

Oh yeah I'll wait for Blu Ray

Dude, whichever one you get, you'll be looking at another longingly within 12 months....its just the way it is......but, before I get too angry about finding Lucas' dick in my wallet everytime I open it....they are great great great films and I'll still be buying them years from now.......

Your quite old dude, dont get ahead of yourself old timer 8)