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You mean this site? http://savestarwars.info/ It hasn't been updated since 2010. There has been so much disinformation since 1997, you can't blame anyone if they got some facts wrong. Maybe they put too much trust in their confidential sources, but the site owner is not some delusional fanboy.

If you can call those half assed non-anamorphic discs using 1993 video masters a release. ;) IIRC, even Robert Harris has politely pointed out it wouldn't cost very much to restore the OOT. Lucas never took him up on his offer to restore the films.

He also made the infamous nine episodes remark in interviews that were part of the original making of ESB paperback published in 1980. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Galaxy:_A_Journal_of_the_Making_of_The_Empire_Strikes_Back

I must confess I just dug out my old copy of the book just to check that page. (It's there.) The book came out again in a slightly revised edition in 1997, with a new section on the Special Edition, so I wouldn't have put it past George to change the older parts of the book. ;)

The story goes Lucas badly wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie, but couldn't get the rights. So he made up his own space opera. He even began THX 1138 with a Buck Rogers clip. When tv stations dusted off the Buster Crabbe serials in Star Wars' wake, I totally got where Lucas drew inspiration...

A lot of people are working in the industry today because they were inspired by that little 1977 film. It was a bright spot for me during a turbulent childhood. My troubles did not dare follow me into the theater. It made me want to know how movies are made, and John Williams' score instilled a...

The only thing missing from the Blu Ray version are the critters on Dagobah and Hoth dancing around. I probably shouldn't give George any ideas though. ;) I believe the audio addition on the Blu Ray to the pivotal scene of Vader turning away from the dark side finally broke the camel's back...

A colleague who is more well versed in John Wayne films than I am, insists there are movies where The Duke shoots first. ;)

You'll change your tune once you witness the hell that is Jedi Rocks. :lol:

In the 1997 version, Luke screams like a banshee when he falls. Allegedly a re-purposed Ian McDiarmid Emperor scream, it sounds nothing like Mark Hamill. The only SE change Lucas has actually undone. Messing up the pacing of the escape from Bespin is a textbook example of fixing something...

http://www.centipedepress.com/studieshorror/shining.html

You'd be amazed how many level headed people I know swear they saw Luke throw the grappling hook and miss back in '77. And they're also certain that the shot was gone when they saw the movie again weeks later. Some people swear they saw the Biggs scenes too, but I think those scenes being in...

The most beautiful film restoration in the world means squat if nobody can ever watch it. Lucas' pretending that THX 1138 hasn't been extensively altered, (a fib even the documentary on the DVD goes along with) was disturbing to me. The Laserdisc is the last legal copy of the original version...

I have encountered people who think the scene with Jabba was present in the film back in 1977. :blink:

The real issue is the theatricals use an ancient 1993 master made for Laserdisc, and it's not even anamorphic. If both versions were available now in equal quality, there would be no fuss. Nobody frets much over the Walkie Talkie version of E.T. anymore. ;)

He still tried to foist a special edition print on the Library of Congress. They declined it. Everything I've read about The Shining points to most of the footage being burned. (IIRC, one of SK's personal assistants has said he personally burned it.) The notable exception being unused aerial...

Cool! I never knew inmates got to see feature films. I wonder how many prison riots started over a bad movie being shown? ;)

IIRC, some theaters in places like college campuses used 16mm. Complete Super 8 prints were sold in Europe for home use. All we ever got in the states seems to have been those cut down "condensed" versions.

It wouldn't surprise me if they bring that ad back now, but replace the original Emperor with Ian Mcdiarmid. ;)

Yes, but Empire and Jedi had no such sticker. ;) And twenty years on, I still have no idea what the heck "Laser Star Certified" refers to. Never saw that logo on any other Laserdisc title.

The first time I heard the mono mix since 1977 really took me back, so I know that feeling. What's bittersweet about the new films is my mom won't be here to see them with me. We were pretty sure back in 2005 we had completed a family tradition.

The Special editions are subtly recut, (even the famous transitions and original optical FX composites were rebuilt) so seamless branching to the original theatricals would be pretty daunting.

I'm all for the 1997 versions being preserved. Weird Science Jabba, and Luke's scream in ESB shouldn't be lost to time. Separated at birth? :D

I think that South Park episode got to him. ;) Didn't he lose the Walkie Talkie version for the Blu Ray though?

I don't think it's a fake. I just believe he was kicking around the idea of revisiting the scene as early as 1983. There's nothing about the scene as shot to indicate they were shooting with stop motion in mind, and Ray Harryhausen's methods were known at the time. The Jabba scene was well...

To be honest, the story about wanting to put a stop motion puppet over the actor didn't surface until the 1983 documentary From Star Wars To Jedi, and even the storyboard that's shown doesn't looks like it's from the the original production. Not to mention you'd think George would have...

I got my roman numerals backwards for some reason. ;)

It would have been more effective had we not seen a similar effect in Star Trek IV just six years before. ;) Of course, George couldn't resist fiddling with the first DS explosion twice. It just looks weird now with all the color drained out of it, and that weird purple haze added in.