George Lucas announced today that all six live-action Star Wars movies will be released on Blu-ray in late 2011. Along with seeing every strand of Chewbacca’s hair and Princess Leia look pretty in HD, the box set will also include documentary features and previously unseen footage. Pricing hasn’t been announced yet.
But why did it take so long? Lucas says that they’ve been waiting for Blu-ray to take off:
“We’ve been wanting to do it as soon as we possibly could, but we just wanted to do it when enough people would be able to buy it and see it”
True die-hard fans may be sad to hear that the first three movies – Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi – won’t be the original version of the movie, but rather the digitally restored version. But hey! Star Wars on Blu-ray! Nothing else matters. [New York Times]
Sutter
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM6 movies? But there’s only 3.
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*still-in-denial*
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private
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 10:53 PMdenial about what? there is only three…
Kieren
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 11:44 AM“we just wanted to do it when enough people would be able to buy it and see it”
He says this, but you know the boxset will be about $500…
moloko
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 12:00 PMCha-Ching
STENDEC
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM“True die-hard fans may be sad to hear that the first three movies – Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi – won’t be the original version of the movie, but rather the digitally restored version. But hey! Star Wars on Blu-ray! Nothing else matters.”
Wow.. Never saw that coming. God Lucas is a douche these days. He knows that all the fans of the REAL Star Wars films want the originals AND ONLY THE ORIGINALS. On Blu-ray he could have released both the original and r(aped)emastered copies on the same disks with seamless branching. But no. We get another bastardisation of the films we all know and love. Wonder what he’ll change this time. Maybe Han didn’t shoot at all. Maybe Greedo just had the blaster round the wrong way.
steve
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM+1
Greg
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 1:26 PMThere’s still unseen footage out there?
James-Mac
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 1:03 PMThe scene from Return of the Jedi, where Luke is building his new lightsaber on Tatooine.
Shane
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 8:40 AM“when enough people would be able to buy it and see it”
Gee, if you had taken the time to ask, most people would have told you, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings where among the top movies people were actually WAITING for before upgrading there equipment!
What a lot of crap!
ps – Can I have a copy please…?
Holiday Special
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 9:05 AMNo collection is complete without the Star Wars Holiday Special
glennc
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 9:14 AMno thanks. wasted enough money on these movies, never again
Ash
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 9:49 AMNot buying another set of Star Wars movies until they come out in BluRay in 3D. And its a surefire bet that thats at least 5 years away.
BuffaloBob
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 2:25 PMThink ill wait till it comes out on a disk I can insert into a mech droid that will project it as a hologram.
steve
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 11:21 AMTake the 1080p raped versions, strip all the scenes he destroyed, upscale the original version and insert for those few seconds.
I could handle a small ammount of poor quality for an unbutchered original