Michael and Krissy Dot Com

Despite his statement that he would never release the original, unaltered versions of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD, yesterday George Lucas announced that the original, unaltered versions will be available in September 2006. He's also following the Disney model - the new DVDs will only be available until December 31, 2006 - then they go back into the Lucasfilm vault.

Supposedly the reason for the about face is to test whether the demand for the unaltered originals is really there.

The bad thing about this new release is that it also includes the DVDs that were released in 2004 as bonus material, so anyone (like me) who already has the 2004 DVDs will essentially purchase them twice. I should buy stock in Lucasfilm, although I can't, since it's a private company.

I wonder when George will change his mind on Episodes 7-9 :)