Baronlando said:

7FN said:

We could mention the many reasons that have - over the past decade - given rise to the current bad feeling between George and many of his fans.

I think there should be only ever be ONE thing to publicly hold against GL at this point, the OT. The other stuff is just matters of taste and we should 't be mixing that in with a concrete, legit issue.

Yes you're absolutely right, and I agree - was just throwing some ideas out there. The one thing we don't want is to come over as rabid nerdy type fans - coming over from the point of view of a fan of film is probably the way to go, sticking purely to the facts, and keeping emotions out of it. Focussing on the film history/preservation side of things only perhaps.

I'm sure with a banner headline like, "An open letter to George Lucas regarding film preservation" media curiosity would be peaked. Some carefully worded statements and questions to him couldn't really be ignored, assuming we managed to get an advert in Variety. Perhaps we might then get some famous names coming out of the woodwork if it was worded compellingly enough...