Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[L32GTPCompG]

Since they're going for a new director, the only thing I have to day is this:

[JamesKurtovich]

I think that Kevin Smith would be a disaster. I can't say, aside from the first Clerks, that I've enjoyed any of his movies. Not the biggest fan of toilet humor and bestiality.

[DarkDune]

Originally Posted by Beast

You call yourself a true fan and call him Snaggletooth!? That's the infamous Sears Blue Snaggletooth. That's Zutton!

In BLUE he is Zutton. In RED he is Snaggletooth!

LOL

[in2video2]

Great news. George Lucas always hinted that Star Wars was to be a 9-Part story. Now with the financial clout of the Disney studios Mr Lucas will be able to complete his opus.

[Member-222782]

If even half the people who have been begging for them to release the original versions on Blu get their wish and make buy them again, Disney has the potential of recouping at least a third of what they paid for Lucasfilm. And if they do them as fully-loaded special editions they'll make even more money. Hell, I'm not even a big Star Wars fan but will happily double dip if it happens.

The only thing that concerns me regarding Disney's purchase is their fascination for cross-promotion rearing it's ugly (and shameful) head. If I see Jack Sparrow prancing around with a lightsaber going after Jar Jar Binks I'm tuning out permanently.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

In BLUE he is Zutton. In RED he is Snagletooth!

LOL

No. In Red he's Takeel.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Takeel - Appeared in A New Hope. Basis for the original Kenner figure.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zutton - Appeared in A New Hope.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rachalt_Hyst - Appeared in the Star Wars: Holiday Special.

[DarkDune]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

In BLUE he is Zutton. In RED he is Snaggletooth!

LOL

Toy packaging does not lie! This is what I remember from the 70's! He he...

I also remembering collection packaging to order that Boba Fett...memories...

[Beast]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

Toy packaging does not lie! This is what I remember from the 70's! He he...

I also remembering collection packaging to order that Boba Fett...memories...

The species all gets the nickname of "Snaggletooth". Outside of Greedo, none of the Cantina Aliens got real names back then.

[22soultaker]

Anyone else hoping for Battlefront 3??

[octagon]

Originally Posted by cine74

If even half the people who have been begging for them to release the original versions on Blu get their wish and make buy them again, Disney has the potential of recouping at least a third of what they paid for Lucasfilm. And if they do them as fully-loaded special editions they'll make even more money. Hell, I'm not even a big Star Wars fan but will happily double dip if it happens.

You think a UOT release would make a billion+ dollars?

No offense but that was insane the first time you posted and it's just as insane now. And I say that as a consistent proponent of a UOT release.

[JamesKurtovich]

Originally Posted by 22soultaker

Anyone else hoping for Battlefront 3??

Hell yes.

[Quinthoopachiefy]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

Well, George, after Red Tails, said he was done. But, still...this?! THIS?! I can't even get my mind around this.

But, you can bet your asses one thing; theatrical cuts of the original trilogy will be released on BD in the near future.

****ing WOW!

Based on the quality of the other Disney restorations, I am very optimistic. My greatest hope is that when they announce the release of the originals, Lucas storms into the boardroom and yells "You said you'd only release the special editions from now on," and Iger says "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

[Schloob]

Originally Posted by Beast

It's in the Blu-ray release thread somewhere. It's nothing more than I just told you.

He said they were coming eventually. That they need a lot of work. And they're not a priority.

Oh, ok since you say so it must be true

[Beast]

Originally Posted by L32GTPCompG

Since they're going for a new director, the only thing I have to day is this:

As mentioned earlier in the thread, this would be a terrible idea. He can't even make a good Comic Book movie. I fear what he could do with a Fantasy Space Opera. There probably wouldn't even be aliens in it, due to Nolan's obsession with realism. Heh.

[Schloob]

Originally Posted by octagon

You think a UOT release would make a billion+ dollars?

No offense but that was insane the first time you posted and it's just as insane now. And I say that as a consistent proponent of a UOT release.

Yeah, it would definitely make quite a bit of money but nowhere near that. Heck even if it sold at actual msrp they would not make that kind of money.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Angel Eyes

I am not sure what to think of all this really. I want more than anything to have the OUT released in 1080 but it would be a little disturbing to have the Disney castle and Tinkerbell before the crawl.

Here you go. Watch this a hundred times tonight and it will all be acceptable from now on.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=5tHKoP68WQQ

.

[MattW]

Hurry up 2015

[Breather]

Originally Posted by Schloob

link? That quote if it happened would have been a 100 page thread in and of itself if it had been spoken by him. Almost certain it has been stated ad nauseam that the only way we were going to get the unaltered original trilogy was when Lucas died. Even then most had the fear he would put it in his will that his children would not be allowed to release them.

I'm not sure, but I think Beast may be referring to something I posted in the Star Wars BD thread. In an interview with the NYT from August, 2010, Lucas said the following:

Mr. Lucas said that to release the original versions of these films on Blu-ray was “kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good.”

“You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally,” he added. “It’s a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version.”

“We’ve been working on them(2011 Saga BD's) for quite a while,” Mr. Lucas said, “but still, there are pipelines. Unfortunately, the recent releases get priority over what we call the classic versions of things.”

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ray-next-year/


It's hardly definitive or a confirmation of the UOT coming to BD anytime soon, but I've always held those quotes as a glimmer of hope and possibility that he was no longer against releasing them and that it would happen eventually. It definitely proves that the old quotes of Lucas saying they no longer existed were just figurative and not literal in nature, as most fans already suspected.

Other than the above interview, I've never come across anything else in recent years where Lucas says anything other than "no" when asked about the UOT. So, who knows?

[DarkDune]

Originally Posted by Beast

As mentioned earlier in the thread, this would be a terrible idea. He can't even make a good Comic Book movie. I fear what he could do with a Fantasy Space Opera. There probably wouldn't even be aliens in it, due to Nolan's obsession with realism. Heh.

The Clone Wars guy will direct them probably...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_...28TV_series%29



Dave Filoni is an American film director, writer, and animator. He's most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars

[frogmort]

Does anyone else feel like Ralph Wiggum about this news?

Ralph - I'm Happy and Angry! - YouTube