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Post #329264

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lordjedi
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Star Wars on Blu-ray?
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Date created
6-Sep-2008, 3:47 PM

I was talking to a friend at work the other day about Blu-ray players and their expense.  He brought up something interesting to me.  Take all this with a grain of salt since I really have no proof other than his word to back it up.

Apparently he knows someone that works at LucasFilm.  According to the employee, back in November of 2007, Sony approached LFL to completely remaster all 6 films for Blu-ray.  They suggested selling all 6 films as a set and even including a Blu-ray player in the set (so it would be a little expensive, but it would be worth it).  The way the story goes is that Sony offered Lucas 5% of worldwide profits.  Apparently Lucas turned them down, being more interested in HD-DVD at the time (publicly I know they were waiting for the format war to end at that time, but we don't know anything about what they were doing privately).  This was going to be done for a Christmas 2008 release.

Fast forward to earlier this year when Blu-ray won the war.  Sony went back to LucasFilm with the same proposal, except that it wouldn't be for Christmas, but possibly for Summer 2009.  Lucas said he wanted 7%.  Sony said no way.  This is probably due to the dwindling public perception of Star Wars and the poor sales of the DVDs up to this point.  In other words, Star Wars isn't considered a successful brand anymore.  This especially shows by the fact that it was hard for Lucas to find a home for the Clone Wars series.

Anyway, like I said, take this with a grain of salt.  It wouldn't surprise me one bit if something like this did take place.  It's an interesting story, but I really have no proof to back it up.