Tag: Star Wars

The Special Editions will be with you. Always.

What the fuck is Jon Favreau talking about?

The Mandalorian creator and longtime Star Wars fan Jon Favreau believes that fans of the iconic space opera franchise would likely not be interested in a re-release of the original film trilogy’s theatrical cut.
When asked in a Moovy TV interview about the potential for the first three Star Wars movies to have their original theatrical cuts released in the present day, Favreau expressed doubt that there would be enough demand. “Do you think anybody but us, like, the people who grew up with it … would care? Because … what I figured out [is] that the younger people have a whole different perception of what Star Wars is.”

Oh FUCK the “younger people”. It’s the old farts like me for whom Star Wars is the original trilogy in its original form who want this. We absolutely WOULD care BECAUSE we fucking grew up with it. We want the films as we knew them first time round, not as George Lucas tooled about with them in the 90s. Fuck, I’m not even really a Star Wars fan any more, I grew up on that original trilogy but by the time it kicked off again in the 90s I’d mostly lost interest (and the prequel trilogy hardly re-inspired me when I did see it); all I’ve otherwise seen of new Star Wars is bits of The Clone Wars, and that was only because it happened to be on TV while I was in hospital in 2009 for you-know-what, I didn’t go out of my way to watch it or anything. Anyway, you can fuck off with that nonsense, “longtime Star Wars fan”; get the original theatrical cuts of the original trilogy onto high-definition discs and watch them fly off the shelves, even into my hands, even into the hands of “the younger people”…