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mverta said:

I agree it’s a powerful asset!

“Yes, yes. [It] would be a great asset. Can it be done?”

Laserschwert said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

crackinwax said:

If that article is accurate, any meeting between Disney/Fox and Verta would have to be awfully productive. That’s not to say that an original trilogy re-release is impossible, of course.

yes, that is accurate… Thanks for making the OT community aware of this fact. We wouldn’t have found out if not for your great detective work.

Quite dickish for a newbie…

I should’ve checked. I feel bad

crackinwax said:

If that article is accurate, any meeting between Disney/Fox and Verta would have to be awfully productive. That’s not to say that an original trilogy re-release is impossible, of course.

yes, that is accurate. It’s still possible. Fox has incentive to squeeze out every last dime until then.

**edited to be less dicky

Another interesting Twitter find. Prowse also regularly tags OT on his posts. Cool.

https://mobile.twitter.com/isDARTHVADER/status/700453351545147392
Posted a day after Mayhew started his tease if that means anything.

Aldarion said:
Otherwise, Disney would have released the original trilogy as soon as they got the rights as the originals would be a HUGE revenue stream.

Have you any clue the time and effort a proper restoration of 40 year-old film elements would take, especially in the condition in which they supposedly exist for Star Wars? It is completely understandable that the future of the Saga (i.e., making sequels) was given precedence over the old given Disney’s massive investment in the project and the equally massive, all but guaranteed payoff of making new movies. What would be in the eyes of a casual fan “just another DVD release” isn’t going to be nearly as huge a revenue stream.

As per your comment about your proposed Lucas contract clause, find that hard to believe.

John Doom said:
Mayhew tweeted Biggs’ farewell to Luke on Tatooine: https://twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/701178311175614464

The tagline on that latest post is pushing the 40 year thing. And it really doesn’t make sense. “It’s wonderful seeing how far we’ve come in 40 years.” It’s a photo of a movie script (also, someone please buy Mayhew a flatbed scanner). So why mention 40 years unless . . . the news has something to do with 40 years?

For me it’s not homosexuality that’s the issue, it’s unnecessary sexualization. Poe and Finn aren’t romantic in TFA-- they are good friend, Finn saved Poe’s life and Poe did the same for Finn in a different sense. The idea that every close relationship has to be sexual is ridiculous. In this case, it would detract from the real nature of their friendship by boiling it down to sexual attraction.

Density said:

• Mike Verta says that he is scheduled to meet with Disney and Fox executives to preview and discuss his restoration in relation to a possible official release.

What? Really?

🤐

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Something just went off in my head. . . . What if this “unethically acquired” content from -1 is pirated from Lucasfilm? Maybe they have a mole, or one of them works for Lucasfilm? Is the team membership actually known? Might explain some of their weird ass behavior and secrecy/stinginess with sources.

One can dream.

Also note a 2-hour script will run ~120 pages.

My dad’s colleague lent him the VHS tapes to watch before I saw TPM in theaters. No clue what version it was. All I remember from that first trilogy experience is the Bespin duel.

I just cleared a space on my bookcase… probably reading too much into this, but I can’t imagine what other kind of announcement would tie so well into this kind of tease (add in my certainty that a Chewbacca anthology film would probably be incredibly boring).

Lord Haseo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Your mom would not approve of that outfit.

I’m pretty sure she would be okay with whatever she’s wearing in this photo.

I don’t know, her unbuttoned placket is a little revealing.

your text should look like this:

![](http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb255/Daffypuck/sign_zpshidnlyll.jpg --plus a closing parenthesis after the url.

Make sure you are using the URL for the picture, not the page with the picture in it–right click on the picture and click “copy image URL” or something similar depending on your browser.

BobaJett said:

When public safety and pop culture cross paths. Saw this the day before TFA released. It was on the overhead signs throughout the state.
[URL=http://s208.photobucket.com/user/Daffypuck/media/sign_zpshidnlyll.jpg.html][IMG]http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb255/Daffypuck/sign_zpshidnlyll.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Damnit! Ive tried four different ways to insert the phot on the post. What type of code does this forum support to show photo in post without clicking?

So is using your cameraphone while driving.

DrCrowTStarwarsreborn said:

Now I really wish the prequels had been better because the music was so tied to scenes

The main reason I wish the prequels were better is that 12 year old me thought it was a good idea to buy them on DVD, and now I’m stuck with them.

And the Star Wars Holiday Special, the one remaining vestige of what could have become a great empire, became a classic and is aired by ABC each year after A Charlie Brown Christmas.

TV’s Frink said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

One of the worst things about the prequels is that every Joe out there has a lightsaber.

You mean every Jedi Joe? Why wouldn’t they all have lightsabers? They’re Jedi!

What I mean to say is there are just so many g-dd-mn lightsabers because there are so many g-dd-mn Jedi. I know it’s a big galaxy, but force-sensitivity still seems to be too wide-spread in the PT. In the OT, it’s mystical. There are five force users in the entire galaxy: Ben, Yoda, Luke, Vader, and the Emperor. In the PT, you have 100 Jedi killing robots and you’re like A) is being a Jedi really that hard? and B) Are they really held in that high esteem, if they’re being contracted to kill robots? It just dilutes the notion of Jedi.

Since Star Wars happened a long time ago, doesn’t that make “Jedi Joe” old news?

I only know of 5 lightsabers:

The lightsaber of Anakin Skywalker, presented to Luke Skywalker by Ben Kenobi.
The lightsaber of Ben Kenobi.
The lightsaber of Darth Vader.
The lightsaber built by Luke Skywalker.
The lightsaber of Kylo Ren.

One of the worst things about the prequels is that every Joe out there has a lightsaber. That scene when like 100 Jedi storm a bunch of robots with lightsabers is one of the dumbest shots ever (like dudes, pull out Anakin, Ben, and Padme and drop a big bomb, or just drop in expendable clones, Jedi aren’t infantry, they’re supposed to be rare, elite fighters). In the OT (and in VII, hopefully it continues), lightsabers are rare weapons, wielded by a select few and used, for the most part, only in combat against other lightsaber wielders. It added to the lore and mystery of them.

I first sensed it when I watched the Blu Ray of Jedi. As I was raised on 2004 DVDs and the prequels, Vader’s “Noooooo” was my “Han shot first.” I wasn’t in the loop about the OOT movement, and I hadn’t heard about the additional changes before purchasing. I was dumbfounded. The throne room had always been my favorite sequence in the trilogy (though Empire is my favorite movie), and to have the climax ruined by making it so G-ddamned cheesey was infuriating.

SilverWook said:

As there’s evidence to suggest the '81 crawl was spliced into old prints, I’d lean towards all of the above.

If it is true that the '81 release used existing '77 prints, I’m sort of baffled that it was deemed worthwhile to change the title crawl. It’d be one thing if they had to go through the effort to run new prints anyway, but to put in the work to make such a small change to otherwise ready and usable prints?

Then again, this is George Lucas we’re talking about.

I may be ignorant, but what is the advantage of making 70mm prints of a film shot on 35mm? Were there just theaters that had only 70mm equipment?

Bingowings said:

Stormtroopers are clones of vampires. This is why they wear those helmets (to keep direct sunlight off) and they can only enter a house if they have been invited. Them bodies at the Lars farm were stormtroopers who were stripped naked at gunpoint by Owen.
He and Beru are still alive.

Where did Owen find a wooden stake on Tatooine?