30th Anniversary - When is the re-release?

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30th Anniversary - When is the re-release?

All six films are supposed to return to the big screen, starting this year.
Anyone heard the strategy? All six, or just one every year for the next six years? Regular theatres or IMAX?

Probably May... the Month of Star Wars.

Don't we get it in 3D? Why haven't we heard ANYTHING on this.

Its not gonna be all six its just gonna be the 1977 star wars . Who needs the PT anyway lolz

I think all six... or at least the OT. But I'm sure it's a lot less work to make the PT in 3D.

Its only star wars i checked with Orignaltrilogy.com

Whatcha mean? ANH?

Yes A new hope

Originally posted by Alliance
Don't we get it in 3D? Why haven't we heard ANYTHING on this.

Unfortunately we have.

I posted this in here and in the PT forums.

Originaly, it was to be one 3D release each year, starting with the 30th aniversary of ANH this may.

However...

Steve Sansweet tackled this question from one fan at the recent Fan Club Breakfast last week in San Diego. Here's his response as posted at Starwars.com.

"George and Rick are really excited about the technology they have seen in 3-D... they showed about 10 minutes of Star Wars at a trade industry show about a year ago, and there was a lot of great buzz. Well, a couple of things have turned out. You have to look at the business plan: When does it make sense to do something like that? And you need thousands of digital screen theaters. It does not work on a film projector... This may be the thing that is finally going to force a lot of theater chains to bring in digital projectors at least for one of their screens... A lot of theater chains have announced they are going ahead. That said, how long is it going to take to get three- to four- to five thousand theaters digitally converted? It's not going to happen this year. It's not going to happen by the end of next year. In addition, the process to do the movie turns out to be a little more expensive than initially thought. So you have the theaters converting, you have the costs of converting one or all of the six Star Wars movies into 3-D, and you have the fact that the technology involves wireless battery-operated glasses that blink maybe a thousand times a second; it's not like a red and blue lens. So you have to take all those factors into consideration. I think Lucasfilm is still very interested in releasing the saga in 3-D. I think it's really just a matter of time, but I don't think it's going to be in the next couple of years."

^^^That was near the end of 2006, I think Sept.

As for just a regular re-release for the 30th, that's possible and more likely, but I've not heard anything about it yet.

It's a long way to Tipperary...

i dont think were getting anything on the big screen this year
i doubt were getting a major release of ANH
its going to be a hard sell seeing as the OT dvds have been released in 3 box sets and individually in the past 3 years and add the fact that an SW pic has been on sky nearly twice a day since October

i love the OT but i remember getting a bit( i dont know if bored is the right word) restless during the S.E
how many times can a long term SW fan with his marbles mostly in tact watch these things

we got a couple of games and a 30th anniversary MAKING OF SW book coming with dozens of unseen photos
knowing my luck its probably filled with the pics ive posted

Is the TV show still even happening?

That thing has been in Preproduction for almost 2 years, and it still feels like they havn't even started working on it yet.

Originally posted by sithsaber408
but I don't think it's going to be in the next couple of years.

cry

Originally posted by OB1-adobe
Is the TV show still even happening?

That thing has been in Preproduction for almost 2 years, and it still feels like they havn't even started working on it yet.

I believe they said 2009 for the release of that.

Hmmm... 2009... a long time still.... Long enough to make a movie.

maybe they will start on the tv show and think hey this is too good for TV
lets make it into 3 movies

i wish there could be some closure on the SW galaxy

Me too... I thought there was with ROTS.... Bloody tv-series.

😂

I don't know If I can take anymore films.

Oh, Im sure I cant take anymore. The PT was frustrating as it was....

Nah, it wasn't.

Lucas's strong points aren'e dialogue and acting. There has alwaya been too much of that, but all the great epic sequences were cut out of the PT, so Lucas was rarely even reliant on his stong points.

Anakin and Kenobi were almost never where the main battleaction was.

This is the greatest flaw of the PT.

p.s. It's not a call for endless SFX or fight sequences with no plot (ROTS).

Originally posted by queeq
Oh, Im sure I cant take anymore. The PT was frustrating as it was....

i thought id say goodbye to SW after SITH but here i am posting SW pics everyday and trying to complete my vintage figure collection

will it ever end?