I am now looking forward to Revenge of the Sith now that the latest trailers are out and all the news says it’s going to be dark and violent. Fantastic.
However the news that there are going to be different versions before it even reaches DVD is concerning me. From a report in Movieweb from TheForce.net, it appears that work will continue on the movie after the film release and this will result in a different digital version.
“The digital version of the movie will be different from the version that goes out on film. That has to be locked down so much earlier, whereas the digital can go right up to a week-and-a-half before the film comes out”…
…Supposedly, the digital version of Revenge of the Sith will be longer than the film version. There is some speculation that this is a “reward” to those theaters that have upgraded to digital projecters.
So if you have a digital cinema near you then punish those smaller cinemas who haven’t had the decency to put themselves into financial hardship and fork out the money to upgrade their equipment, and go to your nearest digital instead. No, scrap that, that’s not fair is it?
It’s just another way for them to release another version of the movie and entice people to see it multiple times before it even hits DVD. Then when it gets to DVD they can release the film version, wait a while, release the digital version, wait, release the Extended version, the Directors Cut, the Extended Directors Cut, the individual Boxset, the Boxset of the first three, then the Ultimate Boxset, finally the Ultimate Extended Directors Cut Digital Boxset. Then you can buy the 1st Anniversary Edition then the 5th…stop it!
Actually, I don’t see that the version will be that different. The comment above regarding the length is pure speculation, it may be longer because of added or extended digital effects, but I really can’t see it being that different after the film release.
This gives an insight into the changes to expect:
The article went on to talk about how the digital version of Attack of the Clones was also different to the version that came out on film, most notably, the shot of Padme holding Anakin’s mechanical hand at the end wedding scene.
I had no idea there was a difference, and I can’t actually remember the difference in that scene. Mind you I’ve never seen it on DVD or a Digital Cinema to tell any difference. Did anyone else notice this?
