Changes in the new Star Wars DVD Set being released in Sept.

Right well Ill get all the facts on about the film and pics to support it.

A NEW HOPE:


Opening Crawl Redone To Match Color/Quality of PT Opening Crawl


Lightsaber effects fixed (Colors more vibrant and appear in ALL shots)
ORIGINAL:


FIXED:



Binary sunset shot now has clouds to match later POV shot


Greedo still shoots first, however HAN’s reaction firing is much more realistic


R2’s panels will be blue in all of the space shots, instead of just a few of them


The Dianoga now appears more lifelike and not so Stop-Motion like


The matte painted hall in the detention block has been fixed
o ORIGINAL:



FIXED:

RUMORED:


Lettering on Death Star panels written in Aurebsh.


Jabba fixed


Ian McDiarmid mentioning in an interview during the production of "Episode II" that he's recorded scenes of the Emperor addressing the Senate for "Episode IV".


John Williams mentioning in several published interviews that he's "re-recorded sections of the score for Episode IV to include THE IMPERIAL MARCH".
News appearing in Corona Upcoming Attractions in 1997 listing that an ILM animator was contracted to do "work on Obi-Wan's death involving state of the art CGI" which was obviously not included in the 1997 Special Editions...


Door closings/openings frame jumps smoothed out


Aliens and other creatures blink now to make them look non-mask like


Supper dupper fight sequence between Vader and Obi-Wan


Stormtroopers voices are redubbed by Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett)


SOME new shots will be added


Battle of Yavin shots recomped



DENIED RUMORS:


No Bail Organa seen before Alderaan blows up





THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:


Opening Crawl Redone To Match Color/Quality of PT Opening Crawl


Lighstaber Effects Fixed


Emperor Palpatine's Image being replaced with Ian McDiarmid as The Emperor

--ORIGINAL:


FIXED:


RUMORED:


Tauntauns now CG


Wampa Attack sequence put back into the beginning of the film


Grander escape sequence between Lando, Leia, Chewie, C3PO and R2 in Cloud City


Additional deleted scene(s) with Yoda on Dagobah






RETURN OF THE JEDI:


Opening Crawl Redone To Match Color/Quality of PT Opening Crawl


Overall Picture Quality Outstandingly Cleaned Up



Lighstaber Effects Fixed

Hayden Christiansen appears at the end of the film in ghost form
--ORIGINAL:



--FIXED:


Rancor matte lines cleaned up




Naboo now appears in the end celebration sequence.


Shaw's eyes have been recolored (to match Hayden's) and eyebrows removed


RUMORED:


Paply's Lightning Effects Fixed


The Jedi Temple appears the background of Courescant during the end celebration sequence.


Background plates adjusted to appear less “background screen like”


Ewoks are more realistic with their facial features


During the Tatooine celebration sequence, Watto has been added with the celebrating crowd



DENIED RUMORS:


No Padme at the end with Anakin, Ben and Yoda’s ghost





MISC INFO:
AUDIO QUALITY:


"I spoke with Ben Burtt recently. He mentioned the upcoming Star Wars DVDs. It seems that they were able to go back and digitize all of the original tracks and rebuild the show from scratch. For the previous Theatrical Special Editions they were only able to go back and re-mix and edit from the pre-mixes which were sonically limited by the analogue recording and reproduction systems of the time. Since Ben was responsible for archiving all of the sound on A New Hope, all of the sounds were able to be found except for a couple of foley tracks which I'm assuming will be re-done. So it seems that we will be hearing Star Wars in a way we've never heard it before. He did not mention if Empire and Jedi would be receiving the same treatment."



PICTURE QUALITY:


Frame by frame restoration and clean up, along with fixing of all matte lines



ADDITIONAL SCENES:


"The only question you might ask is whether the DVD release will be the theatrical cuts or the 1997 Special Editions. We'd have to say that it's likely to be neither. Lucas has filmed a number of extra scenes in the last few years, all for insertion into the first three films. We imagine that this will be complimented with much of the additional CGI that populated the Special Editions but let's hope that some of the '97 tweaks - Greedo shooting first, for example - are left on the cutting room floor."

 

how bizarre.

next thing you know, he's going to go back and remake the first three.

 

There is just something wrong about screwing around with classic films.

 

Yeah. That ghost thing with Hayden is uncomfortable.

On the other hand, any clearer shots of Carrie Fisher on Jabba's yacht is O-tay with me.

 

i hear they're going to add "the family nipples" onto princess leah.