I love Star Wars, and I own every film and various extended products, but not all the different releases. Releasing multiple versions of films was taken to such an artform that it is now a slang verb from the name of George Lucas.
Lucas – [loo-kuhs]
–verb (used with object)
1. to produce again.
2. Law. to make over property that fans think “belongs to them”
3. to translate property to new media format ignoring past release versions
4. to wait until you finally break down and buy the last release thinking it was the final collection, and bring out a new version
– synonym
5. to JarJar
–noun
6. Flannel Papa Smurf
Cinematical shares from the C2E2 announcement:
“We have been at work for a couple of years working on — I won’t call it the Ultimate Set because we keep finding stuff — but, a very full set of all six movies on Blu-ray with lots of extra material. We’re finding all kinds of scenes from dailies that have never been seen before. Beyond all of those things that you know about… there are some real treasures.”
They wont call it the Ultimate set, because there is bound to be another release after Star Wars gets the 3D treatment, is reintroduced to limited theatrical runs in 3D and then ultimately be released in an ULTIMATE SUPER DUPER SPECIAL EDITION in which Greedo and Han shoot simultaneously, MISS and then hug it out before parting ways.
No word on the official release date, but I suspect that “not to distant future” probably means this will be a Christmas release.
