Well, okay, afternoon… TFN’s DVD Review is up. They’ve also got links to more reviews.
And Coming Soon has the Mark Hamill portion of their preview up.
Empire Tales
Coming Soon continues their DVD preview with some great quotes from a Q&A session with ESB director Irvin Kershner:
I did not think of it as science fiction ever. To me it was a fable. It was a fairy tale. And all the research I did was for fairy tales. I read, of course, Campbell. I read Jung. I read Freud. I even read Einstein to try and understand a little bit of what he was saying because he was a great philosopher. And of course I’m very familiar with Zen Buddhist concept. To me it’s a hobby, not a religion. A hobby. I collect Buddhas, you see. Well, I stressed the fairy tale aspect. I stressed the characterization. I tried to put as much humor as possible in it.
In other SW/DVD news…
Reuters interview with Anthony Daniels / John Campea at Movie Blog pleads for sanity / TFN wants you to get a good deal (and then argue about it on their boards) / Jason Kottke has some interesting things to say about Hollywood and and the threat of piracy as told by George Lucas.
Ch-ch-changes: DVD News
With the DVDs out in less than two weeks, articles about the ‘cleaned up’ movies are running rampant. However, USA Today runs down a list of the changes/additions.
As part of the hype, George Lucas will be on the Charlie Rose show on PBS tonight, and A&E will be airing the Empire of Dreams documentary on Sunday.
If you haven’t preordered the DVDS yet, you can attend a midnight opening at one of nine Best Buy stores.
Ten million pieces of dirt and not a speck from Tatooine
IGN covers the Comic Con DVD preview. Aside from the Classic Trilogy, the Ewoks, Droids, and Clone Wars cartoons are being released.
Inside the Box, but for real this time!
starwars.com posts the Original Trilogy DVD cases and discs.
Inside the DVD box
TFN managed to get their hands on some images of what’s inside the Original Trilogy box sets – namely, brand-new covers for each of the films.
