Star Wars On Blu-Ray

During a panel at the C2E2 comic convention in Chicago, Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilm's Director of Content Management and Head of

Fan Relations, stated that the company has been working on a Star Wars Blu-ray set. "We have been at work for a couple of years working on—I won't call it the Ultimate Set because we keep finding stuff—but, a very full set of all six movies on Blu-ray with lots of extra material", said Sansweet.

Sansweet didn't give a date, but he said " it won't be in the too distant future."

The Digital Bits, quoting industry sources, says that Lucasfilm "tentatively plans the official Blu-ray release to happen in October 2011." Obviously, with the Alien Anthology coming later this year, a 2010 release of Star Wars can be safely ruled out, and considering that A New Hope opened theatrically in May 1977, late 2011 would be a natural choice for a 35th Anniversary Edition Anthology.

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ambasah said:

I heard rumblings that lucas was going to change the reveal of vader in ROTJ from Shaw to an aged Christensen -- shoot me now if this is true.

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ambasah said:

I heard rumblings that lucas was going to change the reveal of vader in ROTJ from Shaw to an aged Christensen -- shoot me now if this is true.

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RJMacReady16 said:

Wowee.........

Is he planning Special Editions for the PT at all? I'm curious to see if he can possibly squeeze more s#$% into a single shot.

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ambasah said:

I heard rumblings that lucas was going to change the reveal of vader in ROTJ from Shaw to an aged Christensen -- shoot me now if this is true.

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thenammagazine said:

I'd settle for cleaning up the digital aspects a bit more to blend with the live-action.

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silentman116 said:

I would pay an exorbitant sum for this set if it included a decent transfer of the untouched OT as an "extra." Doesn't even need to be in HD, just anamorphic. Plenty of room on those Blu-Ray discs to throw us a bone, but I'm not expecting anything.

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HappyNoodleBoy said:

And Greedo will probably STILL shoot first.

Either way, I'll wait until an "ultimate" set comes out on BD. Right now we'll get the so-called best version, and then in a couple years we'll get the "big bad awesome" one like they do with stuff nowadays.

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RJMacReady16 said:

Kind of what I was hoping for. He has a strange opportunity here to actually improve the PT with SE's.

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EVILFACE said:

He also has the opportunity to improve the OT as well.

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risingstar said:

It's a shame that GL doesn't share the same feeling for the original releases in its original cut as the fanbase. This is probably the one area where GL intentionally chooses not to make money where he so easily can.

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