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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...."
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.
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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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?
You obviously aren't a big enough nerd.
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.
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.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
gah, seriously, in the a new hope book, han DOES shoot in self defense. In the original print of the film the scene is imperceptible, the special edition just cleared it up.
-Reid
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:
Yeah, but they've been dicking the fans around for ages about this. It wasn't so much a question of if ("You know, we're doing okay these days ... we don't really need the billion dollars the dvd box set will bring in") as of when ("Really, we should have released these by now. Who's going to be fired?") and how often ("Three different sets? Okay, I take it back ... you're not fired, you're promoted.")
You insensitive clod! I'm a stuntman and have kids to feed!
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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!!!