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Star Wars DVD Cover Art Leaked
An anonymous reader writes "Everyone already knows that Star Wars is coming to DVD. In related news, the Digital Bits reports that the proposed cover art for the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy box set was "accidentally" leaked over the weekend by design company Neuron Syndicate. The images were pulled, but not before copies were made. Three versions of packages for the Star Wars Trilogy can currently be viewed at French fansite KamuiWeb. If only those were packages of the original versions of these childhood classics...."
(half serious ;)
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Great! Now we can get started and make the DVD clamshells, and get all ready for when we can download the divx's off Grokster and burn them.
All look rather nice, which one has the Danish Pastry recipe for Princess Lea's hair?
You don't need a lab to make mud.
...I think that George Lucas wanted to show the fans that they were indeed actually going to be released. Still, I'll believe it when I see it on store shelves.
Why isn't it 3d? Holographic cover would be the LEAST that Lucas could do for making us wait this damned long.
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but just in case, a mirror. Its a good static site with just a couple of graphics, probably wont be an issue.....
Does it show Greedo shooting ?
Trolling using another account since 2005.
There appear to be 3 different versions of box art - you think that might be for different versions of the DVD? One 4:3, one widescreen, and one unedited version? Or am I still asleep and dreaming? ;)
More cynically, it's Lucas trying to make more money off the people. Wow, that first cup of coffee makes all the difference in levels of cyncism.
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
I don't understand why it is a big deal when cover art is "leaked." What can I possibly do with this information that I am suddenly privy to? I can see why rips of the actual DVDs leaking would be damaging, but c'mon... Deathstar, Vader... weren't these just images that we EXPECT to be on the DVDs? If the cover-art were something unexpected (like a photo of the Dixie Chicks making out with George Bush), maybe THAT would be news, but even then... what difference does it make what a box for a product that I will be able to purchase one day LOOKS LIKE?
Box art? Slashdot used to talk about bytes and bits and all the cool nerdy geek stuff. But box art?
From a Lucasfilm contest:
10. One of the belching muppets from "Return of the Jedi"
9. A Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans
8. Legolas the Elf. (after a marketing survey showed that this would double sales)
7. Headless Jar Jar
6. Tongue-less Jar Jar
5. Favorite stills from "Star Wars Christmas Special"
4. Carbonite DVD case that only opens with special electronic key
3. Free "Phantom Edit" DVD Inside
2. Bonus: "The Best Non-Star-Wars Films of Mark Hamill"
1. Dancing "Star Wars Kid" hologram
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Looks like I will be buying all three...damn you GL!!!!!!!
Joking/trolling or not, you actually do have a point. DVDs are usually released to stores on Tuesdays, so it's only fitting that they not be evil on those days :-)
- sig? who is this sig of which you speak?
You obviously aren't a big enough nerd.
Looking forward to ignoring this totally on release, as I have no interest whatsoever in owning a copy of the "restored" Star Wars in any format.
**Clutches his digitally-remastered original-version VHS tapes close and hisses something about 'precious'**
It seems like Lucas and other movie companies are beginning to realize what record companies have known for years; by providing new media you can sell the same product over and over. First we had LP's, then 8-tracks then cassettes, then CD's, then super CD's, ... Now we have Beta then VHS, then DVD, ...
I still have my old LP collection and a betamax copy of "Star Wars" that I taped off HBO twenty years ago.
Now if the DVDs have the scenes they talked about in one of the "making of" shows where Leia keeps slipping out of here bikini top in the 3rd (6th, or whatever the hell it was) movie, I might buy it!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
*waves hand* this is not the cover art you are looking for!
tim
or is anyone else holding tight to their "virgin" and unaltered original vhs tapes of Starwars 4-6?
A Fatal OE Exception has occurred, Sig will now reboot.
Greedo fires first? Not interested.
Original sequence? Will buy.
Simple enough for you, George?
I had a sucky sig.
I can understand those who buy the Star Wars Episodes I, II, and III VHS/DVD/Whatever as they come out. ( Same goes for LOTR ). But what about these ppl that buy the videos as they come out and then turn around and buy the boxed set? That's just nuts.
Personally, on such items, I wait and get the boxed set in the best format available at the time, but not the first release. That release is inevitably chopped off at the edges to fit your TV. I wait for the letterboxed editions of movies, Directors Cut if possible, when buying boxed sets. As for Star Wars IV, V, VI, those are best in letterbox pre 'enhancement'.
Eat at Joe's.
Where the hell is this influx of non-geeks coming from? Someone better plug up that hole quick before one of them realizes there's a lot of computer talk on this site.
This is getting lame....every week some part of the movie is getting leaked....just leak the damn movie already...i know one of you out there has it....
But here's the biggest problem - if the original trilogy comes in casing like this then they won't match the existing movies on DVD. I mean, perhaps I'm misreading what's going on here, but at least one of these sets looks like it's one of those deals where the book unfolds and the discs click into the pages (like when they release seasons of television shows on DVD)
Granted, with the inclusion of a fourth disc (instead of, say, three 2-disc movies) the whole thing was going to get messed up anyway, but am I the only one who wants keeper cases with "IV", "V" and "VI" to sit next to my "I", "II" and "III" DVD's?
Or perhaps this is just what the foreign markets get?
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Box art...to fucking Star Wars. Last I read there was an obsessive geek/nerd attraction to that series. I MAY BE WRONG, HOWEVER.
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It doesn't cost that much to press a disk. My understanding is that the packaging is the most significant cost of a DVD. Why not give people a boxed set that has both the 'remastered' and the original versions?
... it's just not the same without the model shots]
Or release two sets, one with, one without, as there are bound to be those people willing to spend more money on it. [I probably wouldn't for Star Wars, but I would have for the Red Dwarf releases
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Really, does anyone actually care any more? I queued up, multiple times, for the original cinematic release like most proto-geeks of my generation, but surely I'm not the only one who realised upon seeing Episode 1 that we were getting fucked in the ass without even the common courtesy of a reach-around?
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Unfortunately none of the 3 versions looks anything like the cover art for Ep I, II, and presumably III. I know, I know - you all hate anything that has come out since 1983, Lucas is a no-talent hack, LucasFilm forces everyone to buy multiple versions of the same movie, yadda yadda yadda. Frankly I don't care. I enjoyed the originals, I enjoyed the special editions, and I enjoy the prequels - if not as much, then still enough to want to have the entire set of 6 with matching cover art! Guess I'll have to wait until '05 for the big box set and sell the old(er) ones on eBay...
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Ohno, somebody already did!!!
")....it also had Tim Curry"
Can't we have one item discussed without complaints about outsourcing to India ????
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get a grip, guys
Seems like everything leaks these days? Even an open source game, work in progress, "leaked" recently - but I think they only used that term to be cool and trendy.
Too bad the leaks sometimes contain spoilers, though. Or as Triumph the Insult Dog puts it:
I am sure I haven't seen THESE versions of the films. They'll have some fucked up modifications that will ruin them even further. Lucas is a twit. You want to screw around with the movies that MADE you, fine. But give the fans the originals that they deserve. Lucas has lost all credibility with those last two pieces of garbage movies. He is just being a prick. Take a look at how he has been suckling the teat of his successes in his IMDB filmography .
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
After EP1 and 2 you would be correct. There WAS an obsessive geek/nerd attraction to that series.
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
Didn't you read the press release, that cover is included in the 'Ultimate Metachlorian Tattoine Darth Jedi Release, with the previously unseen footage of a Sith Lord - Darth Jar Jar
To both parent and grandparent:
It's spelled FUCK. If you're going to use the naughty word, at least fucking spell it correctly.
Naked and petrified and covered in hot grits...
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In apparent retaliation for their box-art fuckup, all employees of Neuron Syndicate have been dumped in a train bound for East Poland and the site displays only a missing graphic.
You won't get a penny of my money until you publish the ORIGINAL versions on DVD. I bought the original trilogy on VHS (VHS sucks btw) but at least it was unadulterated.
Us old timers don't like the bastardized versions.
It worked then, and that's what we want.
Han always came across to me as shooting in self defense in the first movie. Among other things, he was facing a BOUNTY HUNTER. Do you NEED to let them shoot first to know what a bounty hunter for jabba the hutt is going to do to you?
The restoration doesn't clarify he was shooting in self defense. The restoration just implies Han was either so monumentally nice or so monumentally stupid that he couldn't see where this was going and wouldn't shoot to save his own skin unless the other person shot first.
What I can't stand about that change is that what the restoration ultimately means is that Han did not survive that scene because of quick thinking and reflexes and the cunning to have a gun already hidden. It means that Han survived the scene solely because Greedo missed.
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I went to sign the petition to save films from their directors, but they told me they were all out of free hats...
...are they holding walkie talkies?
must say I do like the new artwork, but it's what is inside that really counts. And maybe I'm not normal, or maybe not geeky enough, but I can't really see what all the fuss is about. So, GL decides to put only the 'SE' releases of the films onto DVD, and the problem is what? Come on people it's a FILM! it's entertainment, it's not real life! I like the SW films, and yes, I did see the SE versions at the cinema when they came out and some of the 'new' bits were a little tacky, but hey, it was just a film. it's not some way of life. If GL has decided that the SE is what will be on the disks, then so be it. I don't really think sales will be effected that much, what you going to do, dress up like stormtroopers and protest outside Best Buy? handing out leaflets telling people not to purchse the 'bad' version of the film? come on, grow up a little people. Just be thankfull you're getting the films on official DVD, GL could have waited until E3 is released on dvd before then releasing the original films on dvd. Maybe GL is keeping quiet and an easter egg on the DVDs will be to watch them in their unaltered state? doubtfull, but maybe possible.
I'm pretty disappointed about the moderation here.
How is it helpful to post that the topic is irrelevent? All of the people reading the comment thought the subject was interesting enough to click "Read More". Who are you to tell us that we shouldn't care about it?
Holy shit. Somebody took time out of his day to post a comment about other people wasting their time.
(Obviously I'm the poster above.)
the cover art buys y.... its not even worth it anymore.
The RIAA fined my dog for barking too much like the Back Street Boys. They later came back and shot my dog for looking
How about a defraction grid one image of which is Greedo shooting first (the other would be Han firing back in self defense, while being cheered on by a crowd of ewoks and gungans)? Also, the box could have a little sound chip that continuous plays whatever replaced the Yub-Yub song at the end of Return of the Jedi...
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Dude, you're wasting your time complaining about other people wasting their time posting comments about other people wasting their time. Oh shit! I'm wasting my time!!!
Absent from the /. discussion and the petition website is a clear explanation of what's different between the original theatrical release and the director's cut. Before you moderate me as a troll, understand I prefer the original versions and hate to colorized versions of It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 32nd Street. I hate what the studio did to Eyes Wide Shut. If you wanna win converts, you gotta convince them with a better argument--heck, any argument--than just crying, "It's not the theatrical release!" Also absent from the discussion is whether the DVD will have a non-default option of viewing the theatrical release.
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Dude, you're . ..
Nevermind.
... (wave hand) those are not the artworks you're looking for.
It came to be during that scene in "once upon a time in Mexico" where Johnny Depp had a gun hidden under the table while he kept the fake arm on the table...
I know, I know... totally different genre, but I can't be the only person who was reminded of the Han Solo and Greedo scene from the original star wars.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
I don't really like star wars that much.
Didn't they release the special editions, I don't know, the year after those versions were in theaters, becuase I swear to god I saw those in theaters? I mean, to join the bitching and moaning bandwagon, why? This stuff has been on DVD for years, just because it has a new box it's important?
Everything I've seen indicates that the DVDs coming out this fall are just the Special Edition movies, and not the rumored "Ultimate Edition" I've heard about.
I'm assuming the Ultimate Edition will come out after Ep.3. Anyone heard any different? This is the version I'm waiting to buy. If I feel the need to watch the Special Edition before then, I can just borrow my parent's video tapes. (And I've never seen the original versions, so I can't comment on the whole "The original is better than SE" thing...)
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
The reason is because bootleggers will try to pass their versions off as official product.
All of which impacts their bottom line, as bad WOM could circulate, etc.
Is there a way to block out certain /. articles? I need to block out anything in refrence to SCO or starwars.. it is starting to get annoying as hell.
Yeah, and if people are willing to pay it, I say Lucas is a genius.
Don't hold Lucas in such high esteem. His fans made him. Now he rewards them by fucking them over and over again. That's genius to you? He already has tons of money and has turned his once-great franchise into a kiddie amusement park ride. The least he could do is show some appreciation for the fans that put him there in the first place.
We're just all idiots.
In fact, I've been passively looking for clean, good condition VHS or preferably Laserdisc copies of the ORIGINAL versions of the films so I can transfer them to DVD myself. I have most of the necessary hardware, and I really do NOT want to see the shitty "Special Edition" basardifiications again. :|
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I like the original 4-6, and I'd pay good money for the original 4-6 on DVD. I wouldn't wipe my ass with the speditions.
In other news, next year's Coke can will have a slightly smaller "dynamic ribbon" logo. Liquid Tide is discontinuing the "Fresh Spring" version and adding an unperfumed option. The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 box will have the new east span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on the front. Dell Computers is experimenting with ultradark green cases in selected markets. And the new Ford Bronco will have aggressively squared-off styling.
It's a very northern european style. You take your armpit hair and braid it up your neck and it attaches to the side of your head. Thus when it's cold you can bring they down to cover your ears.
Dear Fox Home Video,
Have you ever thought of digitally re-editing "Lawrence of Arabia" to replace Peter O'Toole with Brad Pitt? As I understand it, director David Lean had wanted to cast an actor who looks like Pitt but couldn't afford it at the time. So this change would be true to the director's original intentions.
Afterwards, could you destroy existing DVD copies of "Lawrence" and replace them solely with the new, improved version?
What? You think this is a bad idea?! Then why are you doing it with "Star Wars"??
Sincerely,
Phil Obbard
"It's amazing how our industry is strewn with beautiful, dead technology and bitter engineers." --M. Huyck
Has anyone thought of doing a Tombstones like service did for MAME roms (and now freemameroms does) for the quasi-ripped LD "original" version of the trilogy put to DVD?
Like create a network of people willing to copy this DVD and send it to you for the price of postage/media (or you send them SASE postage/media)...
I'm trying to figure out how to get the original trilogy in some sort of decent format without buying a LD player (I'll buy the LD's on ebay, but don't want to invest in player)
The bit torrent see out there of the rips are compressed and I'd rather have somethign a little less lossy than SVCD quality.
E.
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You know what sucks? I bought bootleg DVD-9 laserdisc rips of the whole Star Wars trilogy while I was in Malaysia a while back ... but I couldn't find the original versions there, either! I think the Asian bootleggers must have succumbed to "newer is better" syndrome. If I remember right, you could get a DVD-5 version of the original cuts, but not a (less compressed) DVD-9.
Breakfast served all day!
...that the editors only post stories about Star Wars so that the irritated minority of SW "fans" can bitch and whine about the Special Editions and how the quality of the prequels is not the same as the classic trilogy and Lucas is going to screw us all by releasing and rereleasing it over and over again and blah blah blah.
That's the way it's going to be no matter how much you complain, no matter how many petitions you sign, and no matter how much you think Lucas is a sellout. Please do those of us who still ejoy Star Wars a favor and take your petty little geekery to the starwars.com forums. Thank you.
I am curious why this is interesting to anyone here? Are we pulling all the stops in case someone thinks for a mere half-a-second that we aren't really geeks? Is this excitement for real? Sneak peeking at the cover art for the Star Wars DVD packaging is the stuff that gets a nerd a reputation, and perhaps a reputation he (I will use sexist language to protect female slashdotters from such association) deserves.
By way of analogy, would you say Hemingway and Melville should have kept fooling with their stories after their release? Should people have bought Moby Dick SE and The Old Man of the Sea Millenium Edition because it is after all only entertainment?
What about Michelangelo? Should he have altered any of his paintings or sculptures because he changed his mind down the road? He certainly had time to do so -- his career spanned nearly 70 years. But he never did. Why? When he had a new idea he created something new, as opposed to GL who has been milking one idea for his entire career.
Lucas obviously should not be compared to these great men... but, whether you're a real artist or a hack, the point is you don't get to keep changing the storyline after you've brought it to the public.
Perhaps in science, you can revise after publication, BUT that is admitting you were wrong in the first place. That's what makes me wonder about Lucas.
Not only does Greedo shoot first, a cheesy British voice-over pretending to be Han says "Sorry old chap" as he walks away.
Leah is not Jabba's slave in Return of the Jedi, but his image consultant and she wears a smart business suit.
No stormtroopers die, they all just yell "Flesh wound! I'm off to see the ship's medic!"
The interrogation droid pulls back its needle and instead of drugging Leah, it shoots out Skittles(TM) for everyone to enjoy!
After the initial escape from the Death Star, Jesus comes by and raises Obi-Wan from the dead. They both go off for a drink and talk about how much of a dick Mel Gibson is.
3CP0's voice is replaced with a very manly southern american voice and occasionally ends his sentences with words like "Partner" or "Dude." A cowboy hat is digitally inserted now and again. Occasionally, he's chewing on a piece of straw.
R2D2 wears pants.
The previous unknown character "JoJo" is restored and only yells "WoooOOOoooOOo" whenever some kind of sexual inneundo is made between Han and Leah.
Leah no longer kisses Luke. Instead she kisses 3P0 who then says "Damn straight."
All blow-up space vehicles shoot out a guy with a parachute.
All characters killed by Vader's 'force choke' get up and say "Deary, I think I must have choked on something. Off to see the ship's medic, Lord Vader."
Lightsabers no longer kill, they merely hurt a lot. There are three scenes where Luke has to insert DuraCell(TM) batteries to recharge his.
The emperor is now refered to as President or Mr. President.
Not quite. They taped carrie fishers breasts down in the begining of ANH, when she had on that white robe thing. Lucas didn't want too much sex appeal.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Maybe your thinking of the cut, the cbs/fox release(vhs, light blue boxes), where in RotJ the Twilek dancer Oola (the green chick with the head tentacles)loses her top when Jabba drops her into the rancor pit.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Try these. Unfortunatly they appear to be the special edition, not the original or thx cuts.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I think they mean "leak" as in "free advertising".
Good point though - the cover art looks pretty much like you would have imagined it. It certainly isn't much of a surprise. Who buys DVDs for the cover art anyways? Albums... now there's a format with cover art!
Be happy. Nothing else matters.
fucking fanboys will buy any rerelease.
"Worst release ever, I only bought 5 copies."
Ok this is kind of on topic I spose - can anyone let me know of a web site / place which goes in depth and reviews the laserdisc rips of star wars?
Ideally I want to find the very best version I can, I'd prefer a DVD-9 but I sincerely doubt I'm going to find one of those - a really good DVD-5 would be fine, but I do want excellent audio and a half decent image quality.
(beating VHS would be nice)
Triumph: Spoilers? I've got some spoilers for you!
:)
(StarWars nerds starts to look a little more curious and alert)
Triumph: You will die ALONE!
Supernerd: <Darth Vader Impersonation>
Triumph: That's perfect... but you're not breathing heavily?
Supernerd: No.
Triumph: Just imagine you've run ten feet, and you're out of breath.
By the way, best Triumph sketch ever.
Does this mean they're actually remastering the ORIGINALS and not the "special" editions! Bestill my heart! I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I see Greedo shoot first or when I see Jabba in Episode IV.
As I child/teen I loved Star Wars episodes 4-6. My Mom let me skip school to see Jedi.
But then Lucas ruined all my memories by changing the story with episode 1.
In 4-6 we are told that if you'll just believe in yourself and use the force you can do anything. What a great ideal.
In episode 1 we are told, first you must have midchlorians or there's no point. WTF! Now I can no longer watch episodes 4-6 with that new information because they no longer mean the same thing.
Before it was "believe in yourself" where as it's been changed to "must be born great or forget it"
Neuron Syndicate has some nice work in their portfolio. Especially the Aliens Quadrilogy DVD set. I'm Jealous
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Yeah, Leaked by Lucasfilm's Marketing Department. And it worked! Taco, you're such a sap.
I knew I should break down and get a region hacked DVD player with a PAL to NTSC converter, and just buy the stuff straight from the UK.
[The series 1 and 2 US versions just have the over-glossy CG work that doesn't mesh well with the rest of the show]
It's the only reason that I haven't given away my VHS copies.
Maybe 3 and 4 will be better...
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