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San Rafael, CA - After keeping fans waiting for years, George Lucas
has announced the first Star Wars trilogy will be released on DVD.
 But the release
will be worth the wait, Lucas guaranteed. “This time around,
we’ve made the perfect movies, hands down. Finally, I’ve
created the movies that I originally imagined.”
It is no secret that Lucas was never satisfied with the original
trilogy, mostly because of the technical limitations at the time.
The “Special Editions” improved on this, but it is finally
now, with the third and definitively final versions, that the trilogy
is complete.
Much work has been done to fix some mistakes about Han Solo. “For
some reason, Han was portrayed as a rogue in the original versions.
That was never intended,” Lucas explained. “We’ve
been doing some work to show him as the true hero that he is. For
instance, we’ve put in a scene where he saves some cute puppies
and kittens from a runaway landspeeder.”
“I’ve also added a new scene that clears up the whole ‘Kessel
Run – parsec’ debate. It adds about fifteen minutes of
exposition by a couple of patrons in the bar about how a shorter
distance determined the winner of the Kessel Run race. It slows the
pace down, but I think that will make it fit in better with Episodes
I through III,” explained Lucas.
However, it is the Emperor who has received the most attention in
the editing. “Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t
make him as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology,
it is finally possible. As Episode III will show, Senator Palpatine
won’t become the emperor. He is merely the puppet of the true
mastermind.”
Lucas will not only manage to tie the two trilogies together but
also bring the most popular character of the new trilogy into the
old one. “It was Jar-Jar all along. It was he who controlled
the events on Naboo, and we saw him controlling the Senate after
he lured Amidala away in Episode II. And as Anakin’s ‘friend’ he
is the only one capable of turning him in Episode III. I apologize
if I am spoiling the movie for you, but I believe that most of you
knew already. After all, despite all his lovability, everyone knows
that he is a being of pure evil.”
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