KoolGuy7 said:

Please do it Harmy Phantom Menace may not be liked but it deserves to have a theatrical release too. Why is PT sooo pink seriously Lucasfilm? I kinda wish you'd do AOTC too.

Adywan did a TPM theatrical reconstruction a while back. It's not in HD, but it looks awesome. I'd suggest looking into that.

I made a new SW:DE cover for myself by cannibalizing other cover art, posters and such. I know there's another thread for this, but I didn't know how often people visit it.

I like the idea of it saying it's the original theatrical version (which it is) on the box, instead of "Despecialized." I thought it would go over well with my family and friends should I give them a copy of the DEED trilogy.

ww12345 said:

dlvh said:

I like it, except for the words "Episode IV A New Hope"

+1.  :)

Is "A New Hope" something new? I thought this movie was called "Star Wars"...

WTF.

other than A NEW HOPE I like it.

yoda-sama said:

Meh, as far as I'm concerned, as long as it isn't tainting the movie itself, it isn't a huge deal if Episode IV and A New Hope are on the cover, it gives consistency with the other covers if nothing else...  There's little denying that IV is where it lands in the line-up, after all.

For me, it strikes the exact same wrong note as the "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" cover art.  Yeah, it's not on the movie itself in that case either (thank goodness!), but the fact remains it's simply not the name of the movie.  For many years, many fans believed that Star Wars was Episode I and that they skipped a few episodes before Empire.  If we're re-creating the theatrical experience, wondering about those missing episodes is certainly part of it.

poita said:

If you wanted to preserve the Prequels, then get a group together and grab a 35mm print, they are around $1000 so it would be quite doable.

If I hadn't blown all my money on ANH sources, I'd be grabbing the PT for around $3000 and scanning it from a release print.

I'm sorry, but if you are willing to spend that kind of scratch on the PT, you should be kept away from money for your own good.

You guys are fighting about cover art -- made by a fan no less, not Harmy himself. Don't like having "A New Hope" in the title? Don't use chyron's, or better yet, make your own like dlvh just showed above. I mean I'm not against the option (and would prefer it without ANH), but this is definitely not worth debating to the extent you folks are getting into. At all.

So what would you rather be put in place of "A New Hope"? (I'm seriously asking.)

"Despecialized"?   That makes it look less official, in my opinion. I want to have a box set that is absolutely definitive and no one looking at it would question whether it's official. This isn't a fanedit. It's a remaster.

When someone watches my original Star Wars trilogy, I want them to ask where I got it from--not why it says "Despecialized" on the box.

I'm also doing cover art for ESB and ROTJ in a similar (ie. almost identical) fashion to my SW cover. Should I have episode numbers on their spines? They do have numbers in the crawls, but that doesn't required them to be on the box art.

EDIT: Harmy, I'm not meaning to pick at you for using the word "Despecialized." To me, the project is called Despecialized, but the end product is simply an unofficial remaster of the OOT. It removes the words "Special Edition" from the movies, to leave behind just plain old Star Wars (in HD!).

I'm going to go with something like this.  Nice and official looking with no episode numbers.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Blu-Ray-and-other-HD-box-size-STAR-WARS-covers/post/578053/#TopicPost578053

yoda-sama said:

Chyron8472, I really want the versions of the covers you have in mind.  I personally agree with your stance on "official" looking covers over anal adherence to particulars.  Though it might be good to supply an array of cover versions to appease the masses...

Okay. =p

I liked that "A long time ago" blurb on dlvh's spine.

My ultimate personal intent (for my own self) is to have an official looking box set wherein I will have 3 bluray cases for the OT which include Ady's SE's and Harmy's OOT's (just like the 2006 DVD cases have both SE and GOUT); and 3 cases for Q2's (aka. thunderclap's) "Fall of the Jedi" prequel fan edits in similarly official-looking (and matching) cases. I find that Q2's prequel edits actually make the prequels good, in my opinion. Good enough, in fact, to permanently replace my theatrical versions.

Cobra Kai said:

I'm going to go with something like this.  Nice and official looking with no episode numbers.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Blu-Ray-and-other-HD-box-size-STAR-WARS-covers/post/578053/#TopicPost578053

 

 

I have two problems with myself doing that: 1) It doesn't match any prequel box art; and 2) The OOT movies are wonderful enough to each deserve their own box.

Also, available cover art for ESB and ROTJ just screams at me to have to use them.