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buddy-x-wing
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STAR WARS DVD Producer Van Ling answers the tough questions!
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24-Sep-2004, 6:56 PM
I don't understand the point of doing a 30th anniversary 2007 release, when the version Lucas is most likely to release will have nothing to do with the movie that was released 30 years beforehand, unless he suddenly has a radical change of heart and returns from the darkside and decides to release an archival set of the Original cuts, I think George will keep tinkering (burying) his original vision under layers and layers of CGI until his dying day.

I've made the comparison before, but I liken George and Star Wars to Michael Jackson and his ever changing face, neither of them happy with the way they looked in the early eighties, both George and Michael both used technology as a means to perfection, now in 2004 look at the Hideous looking freak Michael Jackson has become, how far away is the day when Star Wars is unrecognisable?

I think the best we can hope for in future is that George starts listening to what others are saying, and decides to undo some of damage he's done to the trilogy, reverting back to the original Han/greedo scene (really, how many arguments would be saved if Lucas admitted he was wrong on this change? I could just about live with the rest of the changes if this one was fixed) give up on Jabba in A New hope, unless you can make him look exactly like Jabba 2 films later in ROTJ (and I don't mean replacing Jabba in ROTJ with CG Jabba!) fix the new Emperor hologram in Empire strikes Back the new version would have been perfect without the additional dialogue and if they kept Mcdiarmids face shrouded ala Darth Sidious, got rid of Jedi Rocks, bring back lapti nek I don't mid if you give sy snootles and co a bit more articulation digitally, and get rid of Hayden at the end of ROTJ