moviefreakedmind said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I believe Lucasfilm always intended to no longer make the original versions available again as early as 1994.

I agree. The whole "ONE LAST TIME" marketing campaign with the faces set certainly indicates to me that Lucas wasn't planning on re-releasing the OOT on any format after 1995.

Even that was ultimately a lie, no matter how crappy the GOUT was.

As for Lucas' vision, I think it had more to do with keeping them current and 'updated' rather than actually fixing anything.

Lucas might have been a better business mogul than filmmaker but even he made investments into projects with little or no returns. In fact the Indiana Jones films and the star wars films are the exception and not the rule everything else was a commercial failure. And the plastic toys made way more money than any of the movies ever did.

The only exception outside of Star Wars and Indiana Jones is American Grafitti the original one not the sequel.

How much capital he put into the unmade star wars tv series and the unmade Lucas sequel episodes and the planning we shall most likely never know. How much of that investment in dollars he got back from the sale to Disney, and also how much he stands to lose in terms of Disney stock if the new films tank.