My HD Wishlist part 1: Star Wars

If you don't know by now, I'm a huge fan of Blu-ray movies. Nothing compares to seeing one of your favorite films in glorious 1080p! Although many of my favorite movies have already been released on Blu-ray in it's first 4 years (Amadeus, Serenity, Ghostbusters, Office Space) many have not.  In this ongoing series, I will be highlighting all of my very favorite films which, for one reason or another, have not seen an HD release.

Let's start with the obvious:

The Star Wars Saga

Oh, the pure joy that will fill my heart when I see Luke standing before the twin suns of Tatooine in high-definition... it's enough to make a grown man cry in standard-def!

Seeing as how it took 6 or 7 years after the introduction of DVDs for the original Star Wars trilogy to be released, I imagine the folks at Lucasfilm will play the same game with us when it comes to Blu-ray.  The only official info so far comes from head of Lucasfilm fan relations, Steve Sansweet in a recent interview:

"...Obviously we've been looking at (Blu-ray) for a couple of years and I think one of the questions is when is the market penetration there and these days, will there be a market penetration before everything goes streaming? But we've been looking at an ultimate box set of the Star Wars movies, all six of the movies.  And what special features would be.  And clearly these days, if you did an ultimate box set and didn't do it in HD, Blu-ray, it just wouldn't make any sense.  So now it's a matter of thinking okay, we've been thinking about this for a while, we know what kind of assets we want to use, we've done some work in cleaning up things, it's really a matter of making that decision of when's the best time to release it."


Translation:  "It's gonna be a while.  Go buy the DVDs a few more times, suckers!"

I predict we'll see a full saga box set sometime in the next 2 years (probably later than sooner).  Mr. Lucas, if you're reading this, just know that I am being patient and I love you.

George Lucas:  "I know."