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Rebel Scumb
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George Lucas' explanation why the OT is obsolete to him
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21-Feb-2004, 5:36 AM
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Errr... that's just that rumor list some fan posted on AICN. Imho, it is pretty obvious these are fakes, because there is a list of severe changes for EpI and II posted by the same guy that get pretty much out of hand. Although I will admit that some of the changes are very well imaginable for the archive editions, I still doubt this is the 'true changelog' for them.


Bingo! This is not a list, its just a wish list that TF.n made up, and i know this because Josh told me personally. SOme of these changes are likely to happen, but this is by no means the actual list. The actual list is probabaly still in the works, or not even started, because as he's said many times, GL is waiting until EP3 is done to worry about the dvds.

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Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
In my opinion, he should have put up a cleaned up (but otherwise untouched) version of the OT in theatres 1997 and wait with the changes until after the prequels. All we have now, is just another soon to be called 'early roughcut' version, that will become obsolete in 2007."


That was always my opinion as well. The OT would of done just as well in rerelease because it was a chance for those like me who had never seen them in theatres to see them on the big screen. Infact he could of waited a bit longer, like 1998 so that the OT rerelease would have the TPM trailers infront of it, that really would of hyped people up.

Then when the PT was done he could go in and do one SE, with the most uptodate CG of the time and a clear idea of anything that needed to be added to fit with the PT (ie Jimmy Smitts)

Of course half the reason the SE was done (according to a lucas interview in premiere circa 1999) was to get 20thcentury fox to pay for what essentially was R&D for the prequel FX. GL wanted to see what could be done with CG for SW and he decided to do it on Fox's nickle. In the end the SE's toppled the boxoffice during their theatrical release and everyone made money off of it. But accord to Lucas the main incentive was to test the CG.