Is The Original Unaltered ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Coming To Blu-Ray? (Oh Please Please Please)
By Empress Eve
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Saturday, August 16th, 2014 at 3:09 pm
Now that Disney owns LucasFilm, it looks like we might finally get the original unaltered Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray!!!
ComicBook.com has the scoop that Disney is planning to bring the first three Stars Wars films — Star Wars (A New Hope), The Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi — to Blu-ray in their original state – meaning, NOT the Special Editions from 1997 where creator George Lucas added lots of crap (yes, crap) and altered scenes making them worse. And NOT the Star Wars: Original Blu-ray Trilogy released in 2011 that took the Special Editions and further tampered with them.
Here’s the details from ComicBook.com:
According to our sources, Disney has plans to release the original cut of the Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray. Our sources indicate that the project has been under way for quite some time, but it’s been challenging because of some damage to the original negatives they are utilizing. The goal is to release A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of Jedi in their complete, unaltered, original form without the redone special edition SFX.
There’s no exact date of release at this time, but the site says that they were told Disney wants to release these before Star Wars: Episode VII hits theaters in December 2015.
Please let this be true, please let this be happening, and please let it all be possible, because the alter versions are just not good.
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This is the only way I buy them.
Comment by Stephen Welch — August 17, 2014 @ 1:21 pm