Non-Special Edition Star Wars coming to DVD?
Look, don’t shoot the messenger when this turns out to be a load of crap, but The Digital Bits seems pretty confident that the original Star Wars films will be coming to DVD this year.
This is no joke and we’ve bent over backwards to confirm it’s the real deal. Our very best industry sources have been checking in over the last couple of days - independently, I might add - with word that Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are finally going to be releasing the original theatrical versions of the Star Wars films on DVD… good old regular DVD… sometime in the second half of this year. You read that right - the original THEATRICAL versions. THIS year.
I don’t buy it for a second. Yes, we’re all nostalgic for seeing Greedo shoot first, and yes, the musical number in “Jedi” was far, far worse than anything Jar-Jar was capable of, but be honest here. Do you really want to see those outlines around the Star Destroyers. These will be fun for about five minutes, and then you’ll realize that they haven’t aged well. Nobody’s going to miss Jabba and Solo’s encounter in Docking Bay 94, but who’s really longing to see the big Ewok jamboree again?
In short, they’ll sell like crazy, and then sit on a lot of DVD shelves, unwatched. Not that it’ll really matter because I don’t believe this for a second. Sorry.
May 4th, 2006 at 9:05 am
Confirmed.
http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/news20060503.html
And I, for one, am looking forward to it very much.
Cheers!
June 20th, 2006 at 10:01 am
filtering @ schools is so crap its bolloks