Consider this opening sentence your “Grain of Salt” warning.
That said, what they are claiming to be an ‘Ain’t it Cool’ Exclusive, aintitcool.com has posted this rather disturbing picture from the upcoming “What-I-George-Lucas-Declares-to-be-the-Original” Star Wars DVD releases. (Click the picture or Here to see an enlargement) Apparently, he’s edited one of the final shots in Return of the Jedi by removing Sebastian Shaw (the guy who actually played Darth Vader) who can be seen Standing with Obi-Wan and Yoda, remember? – and replaced him with a young-looking Anakin. Why?? Who knows!! Yoda still looks old. Obi-Wan still looks old. But we’ve decided to throw in a budding new-character in exchange for the original Darth Vader – for no real reason whatso-fricking-ever.
Regardless of what people think about this change, it is a completely pointless edit that will only result in pissing off fans of the ACTUAL original films. Besides the fact with the unchanged ages of the other two, he’s editing IN a continuity error.
I’d love to say I’m buying these dvds. But I’m not.
**As a side note, I’d like to reiterate that if Robert Zemeckis released an altered version of Back to the Future with removed characters and obviously placed CGI characters and scenes, and then preceded to tell me that this *IS* the original version that I fell in love with when I was 10 years old, I’d be really REALLY pissed off.
Read MSNBC’s ‘Can Star Wars Episode III be saved’ Article.
Read Reader’s suggestions on how they could do it.
