darklordoftech said:
CatBus said:
Fang Zei said:
Well, we've now seen an actual trailer for Episode 7 without having heard anything from Disney about the OOT.
Anyone think they'll keep this bait-and-switch going all the way up to release?
By "this bait-and-switch", you mean selling the SE as if it were the OT, correct?
The blu-rays have updated copyrights. There's a big difference between only releasing the SEs and marketing the SEs as the OOT.
You mean the updated copyrights in teeny, tiny lettering at the bottom of the case? Lucasfilm might not be falsely advertising/marketing them as the original versions, but they're definitely cashing in on people's nostalgia by not calling it what it is.
Of course, the question now becomes "what exactly do you call it?"
For seven years there were only two versions of the OT. During that time, the revised version stopped being marketed as such. Then there was a third version, also not marketed as such. Then there was the blu-ray (a fourth version), with the OT once again marketed as IV, V, VI and nothing more.
Calling the various SE's the "original trilogy" might be accurate, but it's still very misleading.
EDIT:
Oh, boy. There's some confusion of what I meant by "bait-and-switch."
All I was talking about was how annoying it is that Disney's stayed absolutely quiet on the OOT front for two whole years and yet we're already seeing footage from Ep7 more than a year in advance of its release date.
It's like they're going "hey, look over there" with all this Ep7 hype in order to distract from the OOT issue. After all, why put it out now when they can just keep it in their back pocket for several years down the road?
Speaking of which, I'm really starting to wonder if Disney isn't just planning on waiting until 2020 to do any new releases of any versions of the movies. In other words, just letting Fox handle it until then. Of course, even after 2020 they'll have to deal with Fox owning SW77/ANH's distribution rights in perpetuity, but maybe they're still gonna wait until then in order to minimize whatever they have to pay / cede to Fox?