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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?
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...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 ?
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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.
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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!!!!!!!
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!
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*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?
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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'.
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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
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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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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 .
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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.
I can give him a pass on that because he actually FILMED the scene in question with a stand-in with the full intent of putting in that scene with that dialog.
The cantina scene looks like a crappy cgi hack.
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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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...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.
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!!!
... (wave hand) those are not the artworks you're looking for.
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...)
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The special editions were released on VHS in autumn 1997. No version of the original three Star Wars movies have ever had a legitimate DVD release until now.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
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.
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
...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.
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."
Neuron Syndicate has some nice work in their portfolio. Especially the Aliens Quadrilogy DVD set. I'm Jealous
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