Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on DVD: 9/12 to 12/31

[Mister J]

I can see him releasing a boxset with all 6 films (with some extra stuff, of course) to capitalize on this after 12/31.

****ing Lucas; he's a smug and arrogant bastard, but a shrewd businessman.

 

[LostSon88]

^Exactly.Then he will release the saga set next summer for the 30th anniversary making us pay again.

Yep. On HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray...

And on the theater side we have the upcoming 3D Original Trilogy to look forward to and their eventual turn to HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray.

See...Lucas is playing us...not the other way around cuz' he knows that there are those kind of fans out there that will eat all of this s*** up...

It ain't right...but hey that's Lucas for ya'.

 

[logansoldcigar]

The fans beat George Lucas once again.

It's that old saying, the customer is always right.

Guess what George? We are the customers. And Star Wars isn't just yours anymore.

and sorry to be an ass, man, but in what way did the fans beat George Lucas at any point in time?

the man is worth billions, does what he wants when he wants, has just released 3 self financed movies that brought in roughly 2 billion in profit at the box office. owns all the merchandising and licensing rights (thanks Mr 20th century fox, that cost you a couple of dollars ), making shatloads of cash from that. is producing two self financed tv shows on the same subject, and ill bet now that all 100 episodes or so of each are shown..cos whichever network gets them will most likely have to pay for the whole lot, whether they show them or not.
Is gonna get even more cash from releasing the OT later this year, despite the fact he said he never would.

and us, the fans?

well, we say we didnt really like the prequel trilogy as much as the original.

yeah, we've got him on the run there. aint we?

 

[Backdrifter]

Lucasfilm has announced that this September fans can look forward to the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic "Star Wars" trilogy!

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.

See the title crawl to "Star Wars" before it was known as "Episode IV"; see the pioneering, if dated, motion control model work on the attack on the Death Star; groove to Lapti Nek or the Ewok Celebration song like you did when you were a kid; and yes, see Han Solo shoot first.

This release will only be available for a limited time: from September 12th to December 31st. The international release will follow on or about the same day. Each original theatrical version will feature Dolby 2.0 Surround sound, close-captioning, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish for their U.S. release. International sound and subtitling vary by territory.

"Over the years, a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars. Topping it off with a new interactive adventure makes September 12 a red-letter day for Star Wars fans."


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Hellz yeah.

YES!!!

 

[Backdrifter]

Actually, I'm waiting for the Musical remake.

I was actually thinking that they could make it into an opera. I doubt Williams would want to do it though.

 

[Edward Brock]

Limited time? Yeah right!

Great news though.

 

[GoldGoblin]

I wonder if this edition will be like the dvd quality that is already out,or are we gonna get something that looks like VHS quality.

 

[snipe]

I'll be all over this

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

No way, this is just not hapening is it? I thought lucas was not going to release these onto DVD?

 

[Erzengel]

I was going to post this but my thread would have said:
"Han FINALLY shoots first."

Anyways, I'm buying this as well.

This would be my 5th Star Wars Trilogy.

 

[Fettastic]

"Just hours after we posted our story in The Rumor Mill, the official Star Wars website has now officially confirmed it: Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are going to be releasing the original, undoctored and digitally-untweaked, theatrical versions of the Star Wars films on standard DVD in September. The films will be available on disc only for a very limited time, starting on September 12th (they'll go out of print on December 31st). The films will be available as individual 2-disc sets (there may also be a box as well). One of the discs in each set will include the recent "2004" special edition version of the film, while the other disc will include the original theatrical version in anamorphic widescreen video, with audio in Dolby Digital 2.0 surround. And yes, on the 2-disc set of A New Hope... Han will shoot first! Here's an official quote from Lucasfilm's Senior Vice President, Jim Ward:

"Over the years, a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters. We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars."

Well, all I can say is... it's about ___-damned TIME! So much for "those versions don't exist anymore." This is very good news indeed, and we're very happy to see it finally happen. Hats off to George Lucas, Jim Ward and everyone who decided to finally make this a reality on DVD.

And before you ask, it IS DVD only... there's no high-definition version expected this year. Just FYI."
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

I am completely shocked! I can't believe this is happening! Lucas swore up and down it never would but I guess he decided to give in to fan demand!

 

[Fettastic]

Damn! Someone beat me to it. Just let this thread die I guess.

 

[boywonder13]

Yay!!!!!

 

[Dr. Fate]

Finally!

 

[boywonder13]

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230032

this is amzing news so lets all tak about it in the place it was first posted.

 

[Fettastic]

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230032

this is amzing news so lets all tak about it in the place it was first posted.

I can't argue with this. I screwed up and am more than willing to let this thread die or be deleted by the mods.

 

[Kable24]

I may rent and copy, but I doubt I will buy. I don't mind the redone editions. Except for Greedo shooting first. If anything they need to hire the guy who did the Phantom Edit and re-edit the new trilogy.

 

[Immortalfire]

From Yahoo..

In Star Wars, Han Solo shoots a bounty hunter named Greedo. Lucas changed the scene later so it seemed that Greedo draws first, and changed it again for the DVD so that they appear to shoot simultaneously.

WTF? Does this mean we still don't see only Han shoot, as is the correct manner?

 

[Immortalfire]

Yay! Damn to the depths the blasted special editions

 

[huskerwebhead]

it's about ****ing time!!!

 

[Timstuff]

Making Greedo shoot first was such a stupid idea, because Han still shoots first in almost every gunfight in the freakin' movie except that one.

 

[War Lord]

I can see him releasing a boxset with all 6 films (with some extra stuff, of course) to capitalize on this after 12/31.

****ing Lucas; he's a smug and arrogant bastard, but a shrewd businessman.

He ain't that shrewd, you're just that easy.

 

[Erundur]

I'll be all over this

Oh my god you've posted

 

[Timstuff]

Making Greedo shoot first was such a stupid idea, because Han still shoots first in almost every gunfight in the freakin' movie except that one.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

This is one time I'm actually glad Lucas is a lying bastard.

I was shocked to learn that he truly is.

I bought a bunch of old Starlog magazines from the 80's and in one there are all these outraged letters because insanely, stupidly (because there's no way he couldn't be caught), George Lucas said that it was a false rumor that they were going call ROTJ "REVENGE of the Jedi", and that that was never a title they talked about.....even though a bunch of Starlog readers had actually SEEN early teasers that said "This Summer...Revenge of the Jedi" and one guy worked at a theater and OWNED Revenge of the Jedi posters.

There was also talk about how Star Trek 2 was going to be called "Khan's Revenge", but Lucasfilm made them change it because it was too similar to "REVENGE of the Jedi".

But there was Lucas being interviewed saying that Revenge was never even a working title.



So yeah, he's a weasly rat of a little compulsive liar, you can tell it's compulsive because THERE'S NO WAY HE WOULDN'T BE FOUND OUT, but he lied anyway.

Pffffff