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Originally posted by: Rebel ScumbQuote
Originally posted by: Indy
Why doesn't he just release both of the versions, one for people who want the OT and the SE ones.
Top answer your original question, I firmly believe that GL is worried that the OV would outsell the SE.
SOme might disagree as its all money in his pocket either way, but look at it this way. If the OV outsells the SE dvds or the PT dvds, doesn't that more or less take away any credibility to Lucas' whole por-CGI, pro-prequel, pro-revisionist cinema/liquid filmmaking mumbo jumbo?
Basically everything he's been preaching the past 10 years would be negated, and sales would show that people just don't buy into what he's saying.
Lucas can't risk that, and though the SE might outsell the OV, I just don't think he's prepared to take that chance.
Added to which, I don't think he likes the OT, SE or not. I haven't read one interview or seen one clip of him speak about the OT in a favourable way in a long long time. I'm pretty sure he hates the OT, and he definitely hates the OV OT.
No way the originals would outsell the Special Editions (I am not a fan of abbriviations) People like those Special Effects. The pursuists would be the only ones who buy um. The money of making a DVD fine transfer for the originals might be more then the extra money made.