Short Round

This'll sound rude (and I really don't want it to be!), but from my experience with that site, I've noticed that the man who wrote that article usually has no clue what he's talking about, just in May when Bleeding Cool released their rumor the same guy said to count on Star Wars being released within the year or something. I must stress that I'm not a follower and I could have just read some of his bad articles, and the man could be a genius for all I know, but he's definitely completely wrong on almost everything he said in that short article that you're referring to. It's also quite obnoxious that after the several comments saying otherwise he just insists further that he's right. Then in a "debate" with Faraci, one commenter (i'm assuming it's you since it was called gizzy) posted an old 90's article from when Lucas acquired Star Wars and of course that got ignored. As for the "sources" regarding Fox not releasing Star Wars while Lucas is alive, that was even more vague than the comicbook.net rumor, and the claim itself made less sense. I'd say nothing said in that article is anything to worry about when it comes to an OUT release; that being said, I still don't put much faith into the comicbook.net article since it was so vague about its sources. Since the rumor was stated with such confidence, I think it's either a deliberately made up lie, or something based on information from people the author deems reliable, maybe even sources from inside Disney or Lucasfilm, and if that's the case then it makes sense why those sources were not adequately explained since they would probably want to remain anonymous. Either way it's not speculation, or at least I don't think so. 

Do you guys think they'd announce an OUT release at the "Star Wars Celebration" next April. That seems like a good time to announce it since that's the kind of crowd that'd be excited about something like that.

gizzy2000 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Something I think we can all agree will happen for certain, is that Disney WILL re-release the OT (whether unaltered or SE) in the lead up to episode VII. Even if they don't release them again before EVII they will definitely release them on home video eventually (the fox distribution rights are nothing new), and when that happens they want their new release to sell well, and including the OUT will do that. It's not a big investment from what I've heard to restore the OUT, so there's no way they'll lose money on it, or even make significantly less, plus it gives them an excuse to sell the Trilogy again. Every release of SW since the first DVD release has been criticized for not including the OUT, so I really can't see Disney just ignoring the OUT and pretending it doesn't exist. Also, there is a definite market out there for it, just look at how excited people on the internet got when the bleeding cool rumor surfaced a couple months back. Just because not everyone complains about the SE's all the time doesn't mean they don't want the OOT again. Remember, if they do release the SE's again without including the OUT they'll have to give an answer as to why not, and they really don't have an answer since there's no artistic reason for holding the original films back. That's just my take on the whole thing.

EDIT: Also, there was enough demand that even George allowed the release of the GOUT (as pathetic as it was), and if George of all people will allow a release of the OUT, then Disney sure as hell will

 I agree 100%, Disney will continue to release the Original Trilogy, and the best way to get people to re-buy the films is to include extra things not available on previous releases, and what's the biggest feature we haven't gotten yet? The original movies! I seem to remember Michael Kaminski (Secret History of Star Wars) saying that restoring the entire unaltered trilogy shouldn't cost more than a million dollars, and that's a very small fraction of potential sales. 

 I hope you're right

(I'm new to this site by the way)

Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding this is what the whole Fox distribution rights mean. Fox owns the distribution rights for all existing movies, which just means that Lucasfilm (now owned by Disney) has to use Fox as the distributor whenever they release any of the 6 movies, right? Why would this agreement have become a problem just because Disney owns Lucasfilm? I mean, wouldn't the whole distributing the films work just the same as it did when Lucas owned Lucasfilm, with Fox getting their distributor percentage of the profit and Lucasfilm getting the rest? Basically, why do people think that Disney is going to refuse to let Fox distribute the movies, or Fox refuse to allow Disney to release the films? None of that happened before Disney bought Lucasfilm, and that would accomplish absolutely nothing for either company.