Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Breather]

Originally Posted by tyler2tall147

Has it been said if Empire of Dreams will make the bluray set? I'm looking to sell my dvd's, but haven't decided if I will sell the bonus disc.

According to the Lucasfilm PR rep who emailed me back in June, "Empire of Dreams" and "From Star Wars to Jedi" are both absent from the set. On the bright side, at least they gave us the important stuff on the "Documentaries" disc, like fans in costumes and spoofs.

Hang onto your bonus DVD. None of it is carrying over and if you're a prequel fan, hang onto those three bonus DVD's too.

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Here's the email they sent me:




Dear -----,



Thank you for your recent e-mail. We are as excited as you about the release of the Star Wars Saga on Blu-ray Disc! It will be great to be able to watch them at home (or anywhere else for that matter) in high definition with high quality sound to match!



While “From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga” and “Empire of Dreams” won't be included with the BD set, there's a ton of previously unseen material that will featured on the bonus discs; the list from the press release is only a top line, bird's eye view of the comprehensive materials that will be included, and isn’t necessarily reflective of them in their entirety.



Discs seven and eight, in particular, highlight a cornucopia of behind-the-scenes material and footage. Even though the vintage docs aren't included, those two discs alone are steeped in archival goodness.



Thanks again for taking to time to write. May the Force be with you!



Connie



Publicity | Lucasfilm Ltd.

[Beast]

It's really no surprise. Very rarely have they cared over the same extras from release to release.

I have my DVD copies for those other extras. So I'm happy to see mostly new material so I don't have repeated extras.

I'm quite happy with the features on the fans (hopefully they talk about R2-KT), and the Spoofs. Since Lucas is a huge fan of the Spoofs.

[georgec]

Originally Posted by Beast

I'm quite happy with the features on the fans (hopefully they talk about R2-KT), and the Spoofs. Since Lucas is a huge fan of the Spoofs.

Lucas is such a huge fan of spoofs that he decided to make his own Star Wars spoofs. They're called the Prequels.

[Falaskan]

Lucas allows the spoofs for the same reason sarah palin finally went on SNL, if you can't convince the mockers, why not join them?

[nmycon]

Originally Posted by Beast

I have my DVD copies for those other extras. So I'm happy to see mostly new material so I don't have repeated extras.

I'm quite happy with the features on the fans (hopefully they talk about R2-KT), and the Spoofs. Since Lucas is a huge fan of the Spoofs.

I feel the same way

Except... I don't exactly own that particular trilogy

I will have to track it down. I've been keeping an eye on Craigslist and Kijiji, hopefully someone will put some up cheap to try and get money for the blu-ray set.

A few days ago someone put up the prequels in widescreen, plus the 2004 OT box with the bonus disc, all for $30! Would have jumped on that if I didn't have to travel across the city by public transit

[georgec]

Originally Posted by Breather

I saw your question. I posted on Page 942 that I still hadn't heard back from them. I sent the message again yesterday but no response as of yet. Maybe at this point they're going to take the attitude of "you people can wait a month and get your answers then".

My bad, I did see your earlier response and meant to ask if anybody else had heard back. It's good they responded. If more and more people e-mail it should be an opportunity for Lucasfilm to really excite the fans with any details they might be able to reveal.

[aiman04]

Just as I thought, discussion about Anakin's ghost again? Same arguments again? I love this thread.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by whaleman

Hi everyone; I've just returned from vacation for a week, thus have missed about 100 pages on this thread. There seems to be a more optimistic tone in recent pages with comments like "Good news about the new transfer!", "I wouldn't be surprised if Han shoots first.", etc. However, I've gone back to previous pages and cannot find any announcements about new transfers or legit reasons to suspect Lucas might revert to previous versions of scenes, etc. Can anyone help out with a summary of what we have learned since August 1st?

Not much, but positive info:

Originally Posted by aiman04

So let's see what we have here.

An interview with Matthew Wood:

[Show spoiler]

An email from Lucasfilm:

[Show spoiler]

Footage from official website with new audio:

[Show spoiler]

‪Star Wars on Blu-ray | Episode IV | X-Wing‬‏ - YouTube

New digital transfer of The Empire Strikes Back was shown:

[Show spoiler]

New audio mix created in 2007:

[Show spoiler]http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/07/...3d-theatrical/

I think this indicates that there might be new transfer, or at least fixes being done to the 2004 masters. And we'll get brand new audio mix.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by Beast

It's really no surprise. Very rarely have they cared over the same extras from release to release.

I have my DVD copies for those other extras. So I'm happy to see mostly new material so I don't have repeated extras.

I'm quite happy with the features on the fans (hopefully they talk about R2-KT), and the Spoofs. Since Lucas is a huge fan of the Spoofs.

I agree that Lucasfilm has chosen not to carry over extras through the years, though I feel they should have when it came to DVD and now BD. On the other hand, Blu-ray has the capacity to allow that and I think they should have taken advantage of it, as other franchises have.

We now have 3 of the 4 original OT behind-the-scenes documentaries on this Blu-ray set. "From Star Wars to Jedi", number 4 of 4, never made it past VHS/LD. It should have made it on this set. Though I don't prefer this route, one could make the argument against me that the OT bonus features(EOD+) from 2004 and the 3 prequel bonus feature DVD's are on a modern disc format and were likely filmed in SD anyway. Their inclusion would have just been a space-saver and given the set more of a comprehensive feel. FSWTJ, on the other hand, has never seen a modern, disc-based format, so its inclusion on the set would have been highly appropriate. I just feel that leaving off those two docs, especially FSWTJ, while including docs on costumed fans and spoofs, is a shame and makes me wonder what they were thinking. To include 3 of the 4 classic docs, yet leave off FSWTJ, seems a little ridiculous to me.

I would rather see documentaries like the two I mentioned above instead of fans and spoofs. I prefer features that relate better to the films themselves.

In my opinion, a much better set would have jettisoned the 501st, Spoofs, and Star Wars Tech docs from Disc 9. Put "From Star Wars to Jedi", "Empire of Dreams", and "The Making of the SE" from the '97 LD in their place. Create a Disc 10, using a BD-50, and fill it with the leftover SD material from the 2004 OT bonus DVD, the three prequel bonus DVD's, the '93 DC LD extras, the '95 Faces LD interview, The Music of Star Wars DVD content, The Story of Star Wars Wal-Mart bonus DVD content, and the R2D2 short. You'd then have a set with all-new material on Discs 7 and 8, a mixture of new, old, and previously unreleased material on Disc 9, and all previous LFL home video special features to date on a Disc 10. Even throw in the never officially-released "Return of the Ewok" short and the incredibly awful Holiday Special somewhere in the set. A set like that would have been great, in my opinion.

[Cook]

Originally Posted by Canada

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/miscorderswcon11_4.jpg

I think speak for most people when I yell out a huge Jack Bauer "damnit".

I find it interesting that A New Hope is the first movie in the case. So that means the films are arranged 456123. But I thought 1-6 was the proper order. Guess not.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by Cook

I find it interesting that A New Hope is the first movie in the case. So that means the films are arranged 456123. But I thought 1-6 was the proper order. Guess not.

I can't open the pic on that link, it says forbidden. Mind giving us the link to the actual article?

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by aiman04

I can't open the pic on that link, it says forbidden. Mind giving us the link to the actual article?

It's this pic

[DarthMarino]

Originally Posted by Cook

I find it interesting that A New Hope is the first movie in the case. So that means the films are arranged 456123. But I thought 1-6 was the proper order. Guess not.

The link isn't working but I assume you are looking at the A New Hope page from the Digital Bits. If you look on the Amazon picture, A New Hope is not the first page in the book and you can see hints of the prequel pictures before it. I think it's just a weird angle in the Bits picture.

[beckmen]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

It's this pic

Meh. I actually tried to scratch my Alien Resurrection disc (from The Alien Anthology which uses the same bookcase packaging) by sliding it in and out and couldn't do it. I'm not worried about the discs being damaged this way.

I; like many of you; are eagerly anticipating a proper review of this set with actual caps. I pre-ordered it already, since even if they completely botch the OT, the features and PT are still worth the price of admission for me. But I do so very want the OT to be somewhat fixed. The wrong-colored sabers, the bad-looking Greedo scene, the lazy color filter applied to all of the films, even when it makes certain environments (Hoth) look terrible.

37 days...

[Cook]

Originally Posted by DarthMarino

The link isn't working but I assume you are looking at the A New Hope page from the Digital Bits. If you look on the Amazon picture, A New Hope is not the first page in the book and you can see hints of the prequel pictures before it. I think it's just a weird angle in the Bits picture.

I have looked at that picture pretty thoroughly and there is no room for three other movies to be in front of it. It is the first in the packaging. That hint of an image your seeing is the image on the inside of the cover. You can see that the border around the image is the same as the cover. The Alien Anthology had a picture and some words from Ridley Scott. I'm assuming this will be the same. I guess they are arranging them in release order.

[rexington]

Dunno if this has been mentioned before, but it's quite clear this is a stop gap release.

With the first 3d theatrical re-release mere months away, Lucasfilm will most likely be making full on enhancements and additions/corrections to these. After all, they will need something for the ad campaign and a reason for the audience to go watch these months after the Blu Ray Release.

When they're finally released on 3d Blu Ray, they will most likely include all the bells and whistles (i.e. missing documentaries, better artwork etc).

This September release will be stellar quality, but based on previous versions.

The 3d re-release will most likely include williams' score adjustments, CG fixes, restored/additional scenes etc

Rex

[Mavrick]

I thought they were only going to do the entire saga in 3D based on how well the 1st one does at the Box Office.

[opticzar]

Originally Posted by rexington

Dunno if this has been mentioned before, but it's quite clear this is a stop gap release.

This has been discussed to great lengths. As I understand it, only TPM is certain as a 3D release. The others depend on that movie's success. So there is really no guarantee that there will be another complete saga released on Blu.

[Mavrick]

Yep, heres the link.

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-ent...y-be-cut-short

[sowecrazy]

If you check the image on amazon.com and zoom in, you can see there's two pages slightly opened before ANH being episodes II and III, and the flat page before those is Episode I, and there's a page or two before that which is probably the introduction/art. So there in order