Hello, new to this site, but I am enjoying it. It seems to me that at this point George Lucas could partially redeem himself by putting out a 70 M.M. , 1977 original print of SW, warts and all for the 30TH aniversary. IMAX-6track dolby2.0. Run it for a year. I'd love it

I still don't know if I'd buy it if it only came as a 6-movie super special edition pack. I don't want to buy the prequels again, and I don't want to own his next revised vision. If he would just release the bare bones original original trilogy (kinda like what he did a couple of months ago with the special editions), that I would buy. But I don't want to have to shovel his crap just so I can get what I want.

And welcome to the boards, wingman.

I know I wont want to but I'll buy the boxsets and what ever Lucas wants to put out (apart from that stupid 3 disc set) just cos I'll go Star wars=buy.

Well, he certainly didn't take his time to get everything right with the previous two re-releases, and that alone keeps me from caring about his future efforts. If it takes that many tries to get it "right", either he sucks at what he's doing, he has no idea what he's doing, or he's just doing half-ass jobs to be able to keep re-releasing.

I understand a preview of this was shown at Celebration IV, but I didn't go.

Now when I go the 5-25-77 website, all the content that used to be there is gone.

Does anyone know anything new about this movie? When it's coming out? What was shown at Celebration IV?

Thanks!

They showed the entire movie at C4. It was the latest rough cut with unfinished special effects, but complete for the most part. I really enjoyed it.

Basically, the movie is about a high school kid from a small town in Illinois who gets the chance of a lifetime when he flies out to Hollywood to meet the special effects supervisor from the movie 2001. When he gets there, the guy isn't available but he ends up on the set of Close Encounters and gets to meet the then-unknown Steven Spielberg. (The actor playing the young Spielberg is such a great look-a-like btw.) He then gets to tour ILM and, as luck would have it, happens to be there to see a preview of an unfinished version of Star Wars (no soundtrack, no special effects). He goes back to school and tries to get all his friends to go see Star Wars on opening day.

Overall I thought the movie was very entertaining. It's not so much about Star Wars as it is about a young aspiring filmmaker whose perspective on life changed after seeing a weird sci-fi movie. The film is based on the true story of Patrick Read Johnson (writer/director) who saw the rough cut of Star Wars and ended up moving out to California and joining ILM as a model maker after he graduated high school.

It was kind of fitting to see this movie at C4 in its unfinished form, as Johnson pointed out at the panel. I don't think anyone expected they would be showing the whole movie either. It was a welcome surprise.

SFX supervisor Mike Pawlak posted on IMDB that, "'5-25-77' is still in post production with visual effects and final sound mixing being worked on....A release later this year is planned."

I'm looking forward to seeing this in the theater when it's finally released.


EDIT: Check out the trailer on YouTube.

Thanks, Zion!

What a hack Kurtz turned into... from SW to a geek version of American Pie. Sad to see him picking up GL crumbs.

Watching the trailer made me realize how good amateur moviemakers have it today in terms of actually getting their stuff seen by a lot of people. Really looking forward to this!

I saw this a C4 too and I got to say I was really impressed because Johnson seemed to really capture the look and feel of the late 70's and what it was like in that summer. I thought the cat did a fine job and will be sure o see it when the finished product comes to the theaters.