Star Wars OT DVD confirmed changes

Theboinkmaster

The original trilogy coming out 21 Sept is confirmed with the following changes

Episode IV: A New Hope DVD:

* Light Sabers changed for Vader versus Ben Kenobi Death Star duel.
* TractorBeam control now in Aurebesh.
* Han and Greedo scene slightly changed (everyone's seen this).
* Jabba the Hutt redone from Special Edition Jabba.
* Boba Fett still mugs camera.
* Han still steps on tail - "You're a wonderful human being" - still there.
(The scene is an improvement over the SE - however, still not great.)

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

* Emperor replaced with Ian McDiarmid.
Dialogue in this scene has been slightly modified, indicating either that the Emperor knows it was Luke who nuked the Death Star, or that he is Vader's son. Maybe both. Otherwise, dialogue remains in tact. Emperor's theme from Jedi also added into the scene.

Episode VI: Return of the Jedi:

* Hayden Christenson has replaced Sebastian Shaw only in the Force Ghost shot.

* Line about Leia remembering her mother while talking to Luke on the Ewok Village veranda has either been omitted, or modified.

* Naboo has been added to the final planetary celebration montage at the end of the movie. It is a shot very similar to the helicopter shot of Theed in TPM when AATs are moving up the street towards the palace.

These have been confirmed over the past week - the Return of the Jedi DVD has been leaked and is all over the net - there are loads of screenshots, including the menu screens

I have to say the picture quality is amazing - especially the rancor scene with the matte lines removed and cleaned up

For all the pictures see the forums at milleniumfalcon.com

Fenster

Could Lucas just not leave things as they were? He's already lost the respect of the sci-fi community for episodes one and two (medichlorions anyone?). :mad:

Fuhrio

ahh leave lucas alone, it was always gonna be really hard to live up to the original 3 movies.

the phaton menace was ok, the attack of the clones was a big improvement and who knows, the revenge of the sith could be amazing, it has a snazzy title.

Goodshape

Originally posted by Fuhrio
it was always gonna be really hard to live up to the original 3 movies.

Maybe that's why he's doing it.. lowering his own previous standerds so the newer stuff, by comparison, won't look all that bad.

Makaveli

Originally posted by Theboinkmaster

Episode VI: Return of the Jedi:

* Hayden Christenson has replaced Sebastian Shaw only in the Force Ghost shot.

I feel like cancelling my preorder now.

Len_007

Hmm. I wonder will Georgie digitally move one of Tatooine's sun's slightly to left as we all can tell the continuity error in the shadows from when Luke leaves his gaff to hear John Williams' Luke & Lei theme for the first time???

CuLT

Some of the things that he's changed needed to be changed for there to be smooth continuity between the films.

The changes are trivial, he knows he did some things wrong the first time round, he's tweaked those issues.