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Star Wars DVD Cover Art Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the god-i-really-can't-wait dept.

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...."

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  1. Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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'**

  2. Re:remember folks... by tuffy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I actually prefer the fan covers since they feature the original poster art. The John Berkey painting for "Star Wars" really brings back the memories.

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  3. Issues by Schnapple · · Score: 4, Interesting
    For starters, does anyone have a translation of what the French site says? My guess would be that whatever firm came up with these has done three concept prototypes and submitted them.

    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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  4. Self Defense by mcc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  5. Re:remember folks... by ScottGant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Han shot first...if it was self defense, so be it. But he DID shoot first.

    "Yeah, I bet you have" ZAP. One zap, one shot...greedo didn't get a round off at all.

    Trust me, Han shot first. I don't care about the book or whatever...in the movie Star Wars (before the episode IV was added) Han shot first. Theres not even a question about it. It's not imperceptible nor unclear. Han shot first.

    Personally, I don't really care. I'm not buying the special editions and really don't care that Lucas messed around with them...I mean, they're his movies. But I just hate revisionists saying "it was really like this before, Lucas just cleared it up". He changed it, he wussed it up and that's that. Deal with it.

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  6. Re:Versions? by Lordofohio · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I worked in a move theater for a few years, including the time when the first of the "new" Star Wars came out. Lucas had a bastardly set of rules for all theaters that were carrying the film.
    • Projectionists were only allowed to load the film into the projector, they were not allowed to actually glimpse the movie as it was being played.
    • The little windows in the theater doors had to be covered with black construction paper.
    • Lucas had employees sit in the theaters and do head counts. The head count had to match with the ticket sales.
    • No employees were allowed to watch the movies without purchasing a ticket, and then they couldn't even use an employee discount.


    The penalty for breaking the rules? The theater lost the right to show the film. Since it was the hottest movie of the year, of course no theater argued any of the rules that the jerk laid down. Talk about squeezing out every last dime...