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thats why we're here.
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In a topic I just started bbc.co.uk say that the original star wars trilogy is coming out 2004 (next year) is that true? Because they said it is.
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do you have a link for that piece of info?
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Yes I do it is and hear it is motti_soL www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/09/08/dvd_week_68_article.shtml
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Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything on this page about the SW OT on DVD.
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its under something Mark hocker says, but i dont know if he is referring to the OT.
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This page may have already been updated and the old information removed. I'll check it again.

Ahh, found it...

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Mark Hocker wrote in to tell me that he'd joined channel.com, a new website run by Universal. That's nice, I thought, but what was interesting was that in the brochure he got the "Star Wars" trilogy (Episodes IV-VI) are listed as coming to DVD next year. So far the information has been that we would see these no sooner than 2005. Lucasfilm never give much away so we'll have to wait and see for now, but when Mark phoned up the website, they confirmed the rumour to be true. Thanks for writing Mark.


As Gundark said in another thread about this, why would Universal be listing the SW OT on DVD when the films were distributed by Fox in the first place?
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thats what we're tring to figure out as well.
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I know, but I decided to repost Gundark's comment here in case there are some lurkers who are only hanging in this topic area. Figure we may as well let them know as well in case they don't see it in the other thread.
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funny though, you would think that bbc.co.uk would have more brains that this, but maybe there is something more to it.
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DigitalBits says to take it with a grain of salt because they hear reports like this at least once a year.
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but now more and more are talking about it.
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That's what happens on the web. One site picks up on a big story and everyone else automatically spreads it without bothering to confirm its validity. Why do you think mass media retractions are so rampant these days? Because nobody checks anymore. We've become accustomed to fast news, not accurate news. And the media plays on that. They give us news just as it breaks. Regardless of truth.
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How many times was BTTF announced before it actually happened? Or how about Legend? This one does have an air of truth to it though, in that they say Lucas was impressed with the cleanup job with the IJ movies and so decided to apply the same process to the OT. I remain cautiously optimistic.

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emphasis on "cautiously".
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im with gundark on this one... could be wrong, but not sure.
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Yes, but that use of Lucas being impressed with the IJ process and then tying that into the SW trilogy release could just be another example of the media's tendency towards "creative editing." For all we know, Lucas could have said that he is very impressed with how everything worked on the IJ trilogy, but there's no way in hell he would ever want to use that process on his precious films. With a simple text edit here and a placement there, voila!, you get "I am impressed with how the IJ trilogy turned out" and now Mr. Lucas is considering releasing the SW on DVD. No sort of falsehood or misrepresentation here because they did keep the effect of the first part of his statement intact, but just cut out where it was going from there. I'm not saying this is how it happened, but anything is possible.

Still, my emphasis is on "cautiously."
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Agreed. All I said was that the statement added an air of authenticity, not that it was true. My cautious optimism borders on pessimism.

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i think we all here agree that until we see the final product, we wont believe it when it comes to LFL...
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Yep.

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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Agreed. All I said was that the statement added an air of authenticity, not that it was true. My cautious optimism borders on pessimism.


My sentiments exactly.
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THE OTHER THING ABOUT IT IS THAT LFL WOULD NOT COMMENT. GL LOVES TO BUILD UP HYPE FOR HIS UPCOMING PROJECTS/RELEASES, BECAUSE PEOPLE TEND TO START BUYING MORE MERCHANDISE WHEN LEADING UP TO A "NEW" RELEASE. AND WE ALL KNOW HOW GL LOVES HIS MERCHANDISING MONEY.

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good point dayv.
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That definitely is a good point. But I wonder how many stores will buy into the level of merchandising that GL likely wants. Stores like Wal-Mart and Target got so burned by oversaturation on TPM that they severely cut back for AOTC and their SW sections are even smaller than that now. Two rows of pins, tops. If that in some cases. And that's just toys. Most stores probably won't carry all the other merchandise that they once created for SW stuff.
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its the last installment, so i think they will get more than for AOTC, but i dont think there will be as much as there was for TPM.
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