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Sep. 20th, 2004 03:52 amDetails for the DVDs at http://shop.starwars.com/Product/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=239&ReferrerID=SWCMTP-00001 and http://starwars.com/episode-iv/news/2004/04/news20040420.html
--Carrie Fisher is doing part of the commentary. Can. You. Stand. It??!!?!? As Yanks has said before, why won't she show up and be our new best friend?
--SPOILERS ON DISC 4!!! ABORT! ABORT! DANGER, SPOILER FREE PEOPLE! *grumble* Gees, George. Some of us like to be SURPRISED when we go in the theater. And watch me walk in the room right when Joe's eating those sections up.
--The full version of Empire of Dreams. 2 1/2 hours long. It was supposed to be 2 hours and 40 minutes, but the following was cut:
The little footage that was cut from the finished documentary included a reference to the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special," the 1978 television extravanganza featuring the unlikely cast of Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Diahann Carroll, and Harvey Korman, in addition to A New Hope actors Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels, and Peter Mayhew.
"I wanted it in the documentary to show early on how the studio could easily take control and make poor decisions once a film has proven to be a success," Burns explains. "It showed how Star Wars could have been if mishandled. George didn't want Star Wars to become burlesqued or treated like a kiddie show. And we wanted to make a point in the documentary that this was what George was petrified would happen to Star Wars if he hadn't had taken full control."
But the footage didn't quite fit with the overall premise of the documentary and instead ended up on the cutting room floor, "until I can make a director's cut of Empire of Dreams," Burns jokes.
Damn, God George really hates that Holiday Special. Not that I'm surprised. I finally saw it and was completely scarred.
*sigh* If only I could afford those DVDs...
--Carrie Fisher is doing part of the commentary. Can. You. Stand. It??!!?!? As Yanks has said before, why won't she show up and be our new best friend?
--SPOILERS ON DISC 4!!! ABORT! ABORT! DANGER, SPOILER FREE PEOPLE! *grumble* Gees, George. Some of us like to be SURPRISED when we go in the theater. And watch me walk in the room right when Joe's eating those sections up.
--The full version of Empire of Dreams. 2 1/2 hours long. It was supposed to be 2 hours and 40 minutes, but the following was cut:
The little footage that was cut from the finished documentary included a reference to the infamous "Star Wars Holiday Special," the 1978 television extravanganza featuring the unlikely cast of Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Diahann Carroll, and Harvey Korman, in addition to A New Hope actors Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels, and Peter Mayhew.
"I wanted it in the documentary to show early on how the studio could easily take control and make poor decisions once a film has proven to be a success," Burns explains. "It showed how Star Wars could have been if mishandled. George didn't want Star Wars to become burlesqued or treated like a kiddie show. And we wanted to make a point in the documentary that this was what George was petrified would happen to Star Wars if he hadn't had taken full control."
But the footage didn't quite fit with the overall premise of the documentary and instead ended up on the cutting room floor, "until I can make a director's cut of Empire of Dreams," Burns jokes.
Damn, God George really hates that Holiday Special. Not that I'm surprised. I finally saw it and was completely scarred.
*sigh* If only I could afford those DVDs...
