Happy Birthday George Lucas

May 14th, 2012.  George Lucas is 68 years old today.

It seems he has been weakening on the original versions in the last couple of years, too.

"Lucas wasn’t badmouthing the original releases (his usual M.O.), but that there would have to be a big restoration done to get a high def master…And he’s also stopped calling the originals “workprints” instead referring to them as the “classic versions.”

His reasoning at not releasing them at the same time was the time and expense of doing full restorations of the original materials was prohibitive and as such the "recent releases get priority over what we call ‘the classic’ version of things."

Where did you find that quote?

The Jedi Council forum or something like that.  Here's another link:

http://savestarwars.com/starwarsblurayblues.html

It's an old story, but it still shows that his hard-line stance on restoring the originals seems to be softening a little...

I wrote an article based on the NYT piece Zombie wrote that article from:

http://doubleofive.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/save-star-wars/

So it's the same article where he says its way to expensive and other lies. No new news, that makes me sad. After watching "People vs" last night, I've been hoping he'd come to his senses faster.

This is pretty great:
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/george-lucas-grady-ranch/7883

Let us not bear George any ill will today, okay?

He probably has a "surprise" birthday party to endure at the ranch. ;)

And thanks for the link to that story, doubleofive. Seems that there is some good left in him after all.

doubleofive said:

I wrote an article based on the NYT piece Zombie wrote that article from:

http://doubleofive.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/save-star-wars/

So it's the same article where he says its way to expensive and other lies. No new news, that makes me sad. After watching "People vs" last night, I've been hoping he'd come to his senses faster.

Sure, but isn't it nice he at least seems to be entertaining the thought now?

"The quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it" -George Lucas

Indeed, you would have to do a whole restoration on it...Interesting idea, Mr. Lucas....

Happy Birthday, sir.  I too am glad that there is still good in you.

Man, this thread is a great example of why we have a bad name.