Star Wars Trilogy Released...Again

By Acheron August 30, 2000 6:32 AM

On the Star Wars website, there's a notice that Lucas is putting out another edition of Star Wars on VHS. This time the set is going to contain a whopping 10 minutes of Episode II footage along with interviews with George Lucas and "new and returning cast members" on how Episode II will fit into the saga. Now, I'm not one of the "anti-Lucas" fans yet, but this really doesn't help him score any high marks in my book. This is a simple case of getting as much money out of a franchise as humanly possible. If Lucas really wanted to get on people's good side, he'd release the same material/interviews on his website for free, letting his devoted fans know what's up. George, if you're reading, you know you're going to make a killing once Ep. II comes out. You know you're going to make a killing when Ep. III comes out, and you know you're going to make a killing when the DVDs come out, so why don't you sit back and save some of the decency that you still have left. On another note, there's an unconfirmed rumour that Lucas is giving Kenny Baker and his tin can the axe. Apparently he's being replaced by a CG R2D2. The horror. The horror...

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 30, 2000 6:19 PM

Go to the official website to read the news, and quit your whinning

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 30, 2000 10:10 PM

How can you not at least *start* to hate George Lucas after this?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 30, 2000 11:41 PM

This is frustrating indeed. We all love the trilogy, but is there a need to release it, on tape, again? George, when we said we wanted the rerelease of the trilogy, we meant DVD. For Christsakes, He runs ILM but yet releases the trilogy again on a lesser format. Is he needing money, what? I'm not buying it for damn sure, wake me or pull me out of my cryosleep when it does come out on DVD.