Now that letter made my day. =) Thanks Brian. When you work hard on something, you really want to know that people like it, and appreciate it in the way it was intended, and so it's really nice to get letters like that. If only I could get letters like it for my own original films! =)
I have the same opinion of what's happened to Star Wars ... it's a shame that we can't get the original versions of the films on DVD, and that Lucas seems to have vanished into his own success. The prequels are a shame, and it's easy to forget what an accomplishment the original film really was, and what classics all three films were. For me, making this DVD was a great way to rediscover Star Wars in an strange way, by taking it apart until it all started to look new. You tend to miss things when you watch them a million times over since you were a kid ... y'know?
Star Wars was a classic of its time, and for all time, and I think it's up to the filmmakers of today, the youngsters growing up on Jackson and Raimi and Aronofsky and Rodriguez, to create the great classics of tomorrow in the same mold. I write a lot of fantasy these days, and a Star Wars type film is definitely what I'd want to make if I could ever get the budget together.
All the best, glad you liked it, and have a good one .... stay tuned to originaltrilogy.com forum 9, as I'm working on some other discs, including a restoration of Return of the Ewok, and a restoration of the original Star Wars.
Cheers!