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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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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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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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I think it was leaked near 30 years ago.
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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.
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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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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!!!