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Original Star Wars Trilogy Theatrical Cuts To Be Released On Blu-Ray

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 26 2017, @08:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-about-time dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The original, unaltered Star Wars trilogy is rumored to be re-released this year to mark the 40th anniversary of A New Hope. While fans have speculated for years that George Lucas will finally release the first edits of the iconic 1977, 1980 and 1983 films to the public in a variety of formats, a concrete announcement appears imminent. Numerous industry sources have informed fan site Making Star Wars that the original edits are on their way. This is a big deal for diehard fans, many of whom argue the versions they saw in cinemas during the late 70s and early 80s are far superior to the versions later released to the public.

[...] The 40th anniversary of A New Hope occurs on May 22.

Source: http://thathashtagshow.com/2017/02/unaltered-original-star-wars-trilogy-released-year/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @06:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @06:00PM (#471935)

    As long as the copies necessary to make this happen exist, I'm sure that Disney will do it. They don't have the emotional attachment that George does to the version of the film he envisioned. I'm sure the only considerations they'll make are whether it's possible to do this and whether there's a market for it.

    So, they haven't announced it, but I would be surprised if it doesn't happen eventually. Disney is just too interested in profits to ignore this excuse to sell another copy of the trilogy.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @06:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @06:46PM (#471951)

    This current 'rumor' probably is just fishing by them to see if anyone wants it.

    Will they use one of the existing restoration projects? Or re-do the whole thing? Or just do a sloppy master copy or upscale laserdisc dump?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @09:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @09:19PM (#472010)

    there's no profit in disney. nothing is created and nothing is destroyed.
    if you wipe disney from the earth today there's no gain and no lose. so how can there be a profit (or lose)?

    maybe you are misrepresenting "profit" for " wealth re-distribution" as in "money from many hands into less hands" with an overall gain of ... nothing?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @03:19AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @03:19AM (#472086)

      Hi Aristarchus, ignorant as always, I see.

      They paid something for the franchise and the money they make on top of their expenses is profit.