GlastoEls

To be fair though you wouldn't expect anything to be announced yet.

Possibly at Star Wars Celebration for an autumn release?

(Do note, their accidental version error but the point remains; it was the 2011 versions on screen).

Just to finish off this thread, here's the review of the day from the British Film Institute themselves:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/8-things-we-learned-star-wars-day?utm_content=bufferca05d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

Some quotes:

The special editions remain as controversial as ever.

Yet, with the 1997 special ditions of the Star Wars trilogy the only versions in official circulation, a big-screen viewing makes the dated anniversary additions stick out like a sore thumb. And didn’t the audience know it (the loudest boos saved for Hayden Christensen’s spectral appearance at the end of Return of the Jedi). Director George Lucas clearly meant to impose closer ties to his prequels retrospectively, but if you’ve just broken a leg, it’s hard to see the logic in breaking the other one in the name of symmetry.

walking_carpet said:

adywan said:

GlastoEls said:

Disney does not want what just happened.

Boos for Greedo. Muttering at Jedi Rocks. But the ENTIRE theatre yelling and jeering Hayden SO loudly...

 Oh, i wish someone could have recorded that

 The horrendous re-cut that mixes vader going to a star destroyer (alert my star destroyer, blah, blah, blah)  in ESB is horrible too.  did the crowd boo at that?  people always say ESB had the least changes,  but that one is one of the worst

Agree with your point and opinion of that scene, but no.

They booed all mentions of the prequels during the panel discussions, and loudly clapped when the attending people (Biggs, Greedo, Jabba actors, plus second unit directors, etc) mentioned the OOT "originals" being better.

They grumbled during Mos Eisley swinging Jawa and Jedi Rocks, muttered during the "Wesa Free", and then it was chaos during both Greedo and especially Hayden (450 people pretty much all booing each time he came on screen - so funny and therapeutic for an originaltrilogy.com member!).

Like I say above, whereas this was a cine-literate crowd (film club members) it wasn't just Star Wars hardcore; surely this can't be sustainable for future releases at this point?

^ Great post!

Overall super day however.

Now my wife and I are in the bar after with "Yoda Soda" and "Tatooine Sunset" cocktails.

Love the Wars!

Disney does not want what just happened.

Boos for Greedo. Muttering at Jedi Rocks. But the ENTIRE theatre yelling and jeering Hayden SO loudly...

digitalfreaknyc said:

GlastoEls said:

2011 version.

Just finished Star Wars and a panel chat with Biggs & Greedo actors!

Did someone ask Greedo how it felt to shoot first?

Of course - he said he prefers the original!

2011 version.

Just finished Star Wars and a panel chat with Biggs & Greedo actors!

This is tomorrow (Dec 13), looking forward to it. 

Will report what version, albeit it's marked as Special Edition.

chyron8472 said:

imperialscum said:

OT with CGI would not be as great but still great.... while PT with real models would not be as shit but still shit. That's what I said.

 Speak for yourself. I refuse to watch Return of the Jedi if it has Jedi Rocks in it. Ruins the tone of the entire first act.

 That's not CGI, that's just bad!

^ Yep.

Absolutely delighted.

Anybody know the back story to this music, and whether it's available for purchase somewhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScqJU_34Jac

Confirmed online Friday at Star Wars Facebook.

Now come on UK announcement...

unamochilla2 said:

By "smart," he may be referring to at least including the UOT with the SE, if not released separately.  However, if the Diamond Edition line is any indication, Disney usually re-releases a title with some incentive to buy... such as remastered picture/sound, unseen deleted scenes, new bonus features, etc.

EXACTLY - and there's a huge incentive with the UOT, not released in the best part of 20 years!

Cobra Kai said:

I know I shouldn't be getting my hopes up like this, but a limited theatrical run of the OT, coupled with a blu ray release sometime in the fall just makes too much sense to me...

As Iger says, they're "gonna be really smart about it".

How smart is another Blu-Ray of the 2011 cuts?

Disappointed by the lack of Jean-Luc Picards in this thread.

I'm going to this.

deepanddark20 said:

As much as I love Obi-Wan Kenobi, and as much as I love Ewan Macgregor, I wouldn't be able to accept Kenobi's inclusion in any further Star Wars movies played by Macgregor. The idea of Kenobi showing up as Ewan Macgregor ever again after being played by Guiness in the previous 3 movies just can't work. It would be a clunkiness that is far better to avoid by simply not including the character anymore, as much as he will be sorely missed.

Agreed.

Plenty of room to visit him on Tatooine between 3 and 4, anyway.

I'd given up on Star Wars totally until the announcement.

It was dead; iterations of meddling with the films I loved and prequels so badly disappointing.

But it's now open and anything is possible and that's exciting, and I love it.

Between Rebels, the new trilogy, the spin offs, the prospect of the OUT, something is going to be good and I can't wait.

Surely sensible, rational individuals at Disney recognise that Harmy's projects exist for a reason...

^ Is it on the 2011 BR set?