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Strange New Worlds was what i was interested in seeing. It could be years before it airs due to covid.
It also halted any further development of a 4th Star Trek reboot film.

They rejected the Hawley script about a virus that threatens the entire Federation, and featured a whole new crew and cast. And also the Tarantino film that was a spinoff of a piece of the action from TOS.
Hemsworth seemed to think the story about George Kirk wasn’t worth doing either. But that was the one that was going to be made until contract negotiations broke down with Chris Pine over salary.

The extended Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker novelizations. Lord of the Rings. A princess of Mars, the gods of mars and a warlord of mars. i’m also reading the entire Venus and Pellucidar series.

Regarding the lack of deleted scenes available for Steven Spielberg films, well he doesn’t do those or audio commentary for that matter either.

Added, The Empire Strikes Back 1986 Japanese Laserdisc, factory sealed with OBI.

Added Star Wars 1986 with OBI not sealed Japanese Laserdisc. Still has factory sticker and plastic sleeve.

Added Return of the Jedi 1986 Japanese Laserdisc with OBI and original factory sticker and plastic sleeve.

Added Urusei Yatsura Only You Japanese Laserdisc.

Added Project A-Ko perfect collection Japanese Laserdisc.

Added Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Japanese Laserdisc. 20th Century Fox Japan with OBI.

Added Sleeping Beauty 1989 Japanese Laserdisc Pan and scan with digital audio no OBI.

Added first issue Pan and scan US release Laserdisc James Bond Never Say Never Again.

Yeah it was changed to bring it in line with the sequel which was in production. More American Graffiti came out in 1979 the same year the first film was released on home video on Laservision laserdisc.

He also was Christopher Reeve’s trainer for Superman. R.I.P. Dave.

For American Graffiti. The clouds and sunset were added they were not originally there. The original shot was different. Its a minor change honestly, especially considered what he did to Star Wars and THX 1138.

I think the only copies of the first directors cut of THX i have is the DVD from Rikter and the original VHS. I also have the so called directors DVD with all those cgi cartoon effects.

Every single release since the Signature collection Laserdisc is altered. Every single one has that cgi sunset. Including the DVD and Blu ray. Yeah sure if you track down an earlier laserdisc you can get the first directors cut from the late 70s for American Graffiti with the Dolby mix, but not the mono mix and not the theatrical cut. Even the Laservision disc from 1979 doesn’t have the original mix.

The picture quality of the Laserdisc rip that is out there is really rough. It is the first directors cut from the late 70s since the original studio hacked up cut has never been on home video.

I wish American Graffiti and THX 1138 would be shown some love. The available releases leave a lot to be desired. There is no reason they cannot be perfectly restored from their techniscope negatives. And include the initial releases and first directors cuts. Include the mono mixes.

There used to be that advertisement where they showed the video before and after they applied the DVNR to the full screen video, where the before image looked better.

The 1995 full screen video was also released on Laserdisc in Hong Kong, and Video CD. I’m almost sure both could have been bootlegs.

I’m lost on things like Whills and midichlorians teaching the Jedi to survive as a presence in the force, i checked out on all that. I like the force to remain mysterious its an energy field that exists in all living things is enough, and that it allows the Jedi to have space samurai/ninja/wizard powers.

Lucas seems to have and i mean it in a bad way, to begin to over explain things in the prequels. To give back stories to every character and cheapen them as well.

It has gotten so bad on Ebay i’m looking up a legitimate Laserdisc release and bootlegs of nearly every fan project show up in my search results.

I’m afraid to even buy a DVD or Blu ray of a new film there now and i will get it on Amazon, its gotten completely out of hand with the pirated copies on auction sites.

For every 2 or 3 that get taken down another dozen pop up.

If only the remastered 4:3 had a physical release on DVD or SD Blu-Ray.

If they were to do graphic novel adaptations of Lucas treatment, they should also do one of Leigh Brackett’s Star Wars 2.

I assume people mean like THE STAR WARS, the graphic novel by Rinzler based on Lucas Rough Draft screenplay for the original film.

The Late AC3 pressing is what is super expensive. the other version not so much. But it doesn’t go for 10 to 25 dollars for the Laserdisc.

The only DVD of the Roadshow is a bootleg sadly.

Why am i responding to a post from 6 years ago, i guess because i like Laserdisc.

On one hand Lucas hated directing and that is why he gave it up. And on the other hand he hated to cede control of one of his films to anyone, except the exception being Steven Spielberg. He hated films going over budget, he hated the writing process and didn’t like the technological limitations in his way of achieving his vision.
Collaboration was a necessity but he didn’t like to do that either.

When it came to do the prequels he just decided the hell with it and wrote and directed them himself to avoid what happened on Empire and Jedi. Its his way or no way. It would have been the same for the sequels had he not sold to Disney.

They did not go back before they did the DNR pass used for the 3D reissue. Leaving to too smooth an image and very little fine detail. The audio mix on Star Wars is poor due to the master tapes. Some of the dialogue is of extremely poor quality. The mix varies from very good to not so good. Which wasn’t a problem for the earlier mixes before Matthew Wood remixed the film. No such problem on Empire or Jedi as far as i could tell.

You would be correct in believing the only Pre Restored Edition of Sleeping Beauty on Laserdisc is the pan and scan. The last issue was in 1989 with digital audio in Japan. Sadly there are subtitles in the image.

It has enjoyable moments. And it isn’t the worst film ever made, but it is wildly inconsistent in tone and quality from one scene to another.

The really bad moments are Padme dying of a broken heart, that scene with Obi Wan riding the Lizard. Worst of all to me was the lightsaber duel. I had waited since the 80s to see that. It is just a bunch of fancy twirling if you slow it all down it is nonsense. And also Anakin’s sudden turn to the darkside makes no sense.

It isn’t just the Lensman series but also the Skylark series by E.E. Doc Smith that inspired Lucas.
I’m also convinced he read Edmund Hamilton and Leigh Brackett.
I know he read Dune, Galactic Patrol, at least the first trilogy of Burroughs Mars tales and the Foundation trilogy.

He was a big fan of comic magazines and newspaper comics. He liked Hal Foster, Alex Raymond. Wally Wood, Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta.

1. Star Wars 1977
2. Empire Strikes Back 1980
3. Return of the Jedi 1983
4. Phantom Menace
5. Force Awakens
6. Rise of Skywalker
7. The Last Jedi
8. Revenge of the Sith
9. Attack of the Clones

I think Marquand was a very good director and documentary filmmaker. But he was uncomfortable behind the Vistavision camera. His working method was not like Lucas at all who wanted to assemble the film in editing.

I wish he hadn’t died i think i would have liked to see another fantasy or science fiction film directed by him.

The film was first retitled A New Hope in the Art of Star Wars first edition. Edited by Carol Titelman.

That was in 1979 i think.

So 1981 was when they actually bothered to do it, to physically alter the opening roll up and starfield and add a new second title to the film. They even spliced the new opening into existing prints.

I’m sure ILM has talked about redoing the opening somewhere.

So Lucas wanted to do his own version of the EU. Sounds like with some edits like Luke neither being married or having any children. No wonder Disney threw those treatments in the trash. None of these are new or original stories or ideas he was just cribbing EU characters and plots. Maybe even worse than Disney in a way, more lazy at least for the most part Disney didn’t use the EU as a template.

Darth Maul being the main villain is a joke.

This isn’t what we waited 35 years to see. We waited for the continuation of the OT characters and their story where it left off, as original stories. Not some weird amalgamation of Filoni Clone Wars and EU.

I think silly names is something that carried over from comic books and movie serials.

Star Wars is not serious drama. Its a live action comic book serial.

Even Starkiller came out of Killer Kane from Buck Rogers. I know Lucas changed it to Skywalker so it didn’t sound like the hero was a mass murderer.

I mean the Emperor was named Sidious in the Prequels. Short for Insidious. Stealthily treacherous and deceitful. His master was plagueis aka plague us. Hego Damask.