| Original STAR WARS on DVD [message #261513] |
Do, 04 Mai 2006 18:33 |
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I just found this on SCIFI WIRE at
-< http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=3 5855>
Original Star Wars Comes To DVD
Fox will release the original unaltered theatrical versions of the
first three Star Wars movies on DVD on Sept. 12, despite statements by
series creator George Lucas, USA Today reported.
Lucas had adamantly declared that 2004's digitally restored Star Wars
Trilogy DVDs were the definitive versions of his movies. But fans have
held out hope for DVDs of the originals, and it appears that Lucasfilm
is responding, the newspaper reported.
Fox will release new two-disc DVDs, priced at $30 each, of Star Wars,
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi that will feature the
films as they first appeared in theaters, along with the new, restored
versions (now available in the four-disc $70 Star Wars Trilogy). The
individual DVDs will be taken off the market on Dec. 31, a strategy
that Disney uses on many of its classic releases.
This new set of DVDs does not constitute "George changing his mind,"
Lucasfilm's Jim Ward told USA Today. "What we've always said is George
viewed the revised versions of the films as the definitive versions."
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 said.
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Now which original theatrical versions will we get?
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