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Originally Posted by jefemeister
I'm not so sure. I picture Lucas as someone who would love to sell us the same movie 3-4 times on every new format available. It's just obviously going to be up to him what we get and when.
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If that were true, the "original" trilogy would have been out already on dvd (standard). It had never been released on dvd until this past Sept, and you know that it could have been released any number of times with slightly different add-ons, special features, packaging, etc. Just look at how Disney does it (release in one format, sell it as limited edition, announce that it is being retired, then 6mos-2 yrs later, re-release, hopefully on new standard, but usually just with new packaging, sometimes with new theatrical release inbetween).
Ergo: The other reason for not releasing something that successful would be Lucas' intention to mount a possible theatrical re-release (something I would really enjoy), possibly in imax format (now wouldn't that be something). But, I think the truth is that with the limited success of the prequels, he probably ran out of time and patience and needed some cashflow for other projects. Also, I understand that he has a number of children (adopted with then wife, who left as soon as kids were around, leaving him as a really terrific single father who put film making on hold to raise kids) and we know how expensive that is.
As to differences in quality between original star wars and later star wars prequels? that's easy to explain. I understand that Lucas' guru was Joseph Campbell, and now that Campbell has been dead for so many years, Lucas lost his "vision" (Joseph Campbell,
The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press, 2004. Also available in paperback from Fontana Press; at Amazon or B&N ) But that's ok, because Andy Wachowski also apparently read the book.
