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[lostcarpark]

George Lucas has just started re-editing a new version of the original Star Wars trilogy. Apparently in this version, Han no longer shoots Greedo. There is in fact a third gunman on the grassy knoll outside the cantina's window. In an interview Lucas claimed that this was always his intention, but the technology has only now reached the point where this is possible to depict.

If you look very carefully, you can in fact see a small jawa gunman through one of the windows of the cantina in a single frame of the original film. Or perhaps it could be a smudge on the celuloid...

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[red-cloud.livejournal.com]

I can confirm that at the end of ROTJ on the DVD, the original Anakin Skywalker "ghost" (played by Sebastian Shaw)is indeed replaced with Haydn Christiansen in his Episode III guise. Not sure how I feel about this. Do I care? I suspect not.

[spodlife]

Yes, I spotted this when I checked the beginnings and ends of the DVDs were OK in the first 5 minutes of openning the packaging.

The bit on the extras disc about re-making the Darth Vader face mask and helmet was very interesting, though obviously included as a taster trailer for Episode III.

I haven't actually watched any more of the discs yet!

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard what most of the changes are. What they don't seem to have fixed are really obvious problems, like the really obvious jumps characters make when turning lightsabres on/off, especially in the first movie. The sort of thing that should be easily fixable with digital technology.