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Post #297401

Author
generalfrevious
Parent topic
George Lucas to host showing of Star Wars "1977" for AFI's 40th anniversary.
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Date created
18-Sep-2007, 12:26 AM
Perhaps all the GOUT ultimately boils down to is LFL's desire to make a quick dollar. It's sad and petty, but not impossible.


The GOUT was a test for George Lucas to prove nobody wants the OOT and his SE has virtual mainstream approval. Sure, he cheated by making the OOT horribly outdated to justify his logic, but Lucas can afford a loss in money. Heck, he made $1 billion in domestic grosses for the PT alone. He considers it a minor sacrifice to lose a few million dollars to make an additional hundreds of millions of dollars.

BTW, based on the whole HD/Blu-ray predictions, we may get an even more extensively altered DVD of the OT by 2013, and then a really, really bad copy of the OOT by 2015. Imagine a 4:3 laserdisc on a possible 64:27 TV ten years from now!