I am interested in that making of empire strikes back book from del rey. too bad it does not come out til 2010.
The only thing good to come out of star wars lately to me is the Making of Star Wars book. That was based on Charlie Lippincott's interviews he conducted for his unpublished and unwritten making of book, but he compiled all the relevant material. He should at least be named as a co author next to rinzler.
I have yet to read the unofficial Secret History of Star Wars book, but i don't have the money at the moment.
My Library does not have a copy. And they purchase only from the big publising houses, and would not consider buying an amateur work, i would not call it that but they would.
I mean they stopped buying the science fiction books altogether, and now only purchase the best selling regular fiction and non fiction.
Then no longer even buy star wars or star trek, or even the literary sci fi and fantasy anymore.
The best unofficial Book on Star Wars and Lucas in general is Skywalking but is outdated being written in 1983. Does the Secret history of star wars fill in those missing years?
I have very little to look forward to with Star Wars because the gout is shit quality and non anamorphic and have no hope of ever seeing the films in a dvd level quality. I already had the Laserdiscs so that release was the biggest slap in the face ever, and a total ripoff since i already had the 2004 set.
One fan on Amazon.com called it the con of the century,lol.
It is actually inferior to the laserdiscs since they feature PCM sound, and the dvd's have dolby digital 2.0,lol.
Yeah the image quality is better than the laserdisc but has had sharpening applied to it and looks like garbage. I'll take the soft image of the laserdisc anyday over the dvd that makes the flaws of the original d2 telecine so transparent. It is no wonder that the film prints, the IP, and negatives were in such horrible shape. Color shifting and scratches and dirt everywhere, that in 1997 a restoration was necessary. What was not necessary were all the new and retarded cgi effects and cartoon characters added.
A lot of the 1997 i can forgive mostly because in the theater the colors were at least right, the sound mixed properly. And the scenes that were not changed look better than they ever had up to that point. But the 2004 was just an abomination in so many ways.
As far as im concerned the star wars i grew up with as well as the Indiana Jones i grew up with died a long time ago. I can bitch and whine until i am blue in the face about the direction Lucas took Star Wars and Indiana Jones in, i disagree and hate the currrent state of things but i won't lose sleep at night about it. Star Wars is not my life, It is a pretty awesome film trilogy made from 1977-1983 that i have loved since i was a small child, but that is it. I have no control to stop George from destroying the best films he ever made and replacing them with absolute horseshit. I mean by his own "certain point of view" he is improving the films so who am i to disagree.