Just finished my letter, will drop it in the mail next time i'm out.

Dear Mr. Lucas,

It was recently announced by Steve Sansweet that Lucasfilm was hard at work on a Bluray boxed set of the Star Wars film series. As a fan of these films for many years, I found this very exciting. My excitement was tempered, however, by my knowledge of the recent history of Star Wars home video releases. While I enjoy and support your efforts to create a director’s cut of each film that is precisely your vision, I find it alarming that this would be done at the cost of destroying the original, ground-breaking versions of these films.

The theatrical versions of the original Star Wars trilogy are historical landmarks that changed the film industry forever. They also touched the lives of countless thousands of fans and movie-goers worldwide. These original cuts deserve to be restored and preserved in the highest possible quality with today’s technology.

I would like to see this new Bluray boxed set contain the original theatrical versions of all six films alongside the final, definitive cut of each film. Spielberg gave us both original & director’s cuts of E.T. The Extraterrestrial on DVD and three different versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Bluray. Ridley Scott put five different cuts of the cult classic Blade Runner in a fantastic Bluray set. These days it is quite common for studios to release both the theatrical cuts and director’s cuts of popular movies.

While I could go on indefinitely with reasons that the groundbreaking original cuts of the Star Wars films should be restored and preserved, I will conclude with this. The only way I will ever purchase another copy of Star Wars on home video is if it includes the original theatrical cuts of the original Star Wars trilogy fully restored and presented in the highest possible quality available.

Thank you,

I wanted to add something about the various theatrical soundmixes as different audio options, but I felt it would've gotten too wordy/demanding.