Star Wars Episode 8

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

They've lost me as a customer on that front. This should have happened the second George was out of the picture.

Even if they wanted to, and they probably do, they couldn't just strike a deal with Fox right out of the gate. They own the distribution rights to IV, like, forever.

They wanna dick around for whatever reason though. Eff em.

I don't see why. Even when George was around he included the original versions on the limited editions of the DVD release of IV-VI. Nobody really went crazy over them, or bought them up like hotcakes or anything.

I'm sure we'll probably see a re-release of the "original, unaltered" OT in our lifetime. I just don't expect it is going to be this earth-shaking thing. It'll probably just be a quiet murmur of, "Oh. Well I guess it's really not better at all, is it?" or "Huh. That's a whole lot of matte lines and boxes," or maybe, maybe, "Well, I guess that's neat not to see Hayden at the end of Jedi."

Hipsters will probably love it. They will have special screenings of it as they drink their organic chai teas, stroking their beards and playing with their man buns as they cheer, "This is sooo retro, dude!"