http://comicbook.com/2015/09/19/disney-to-re-release-theatrical-cuts-of-the-original-star-wars-t/
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I mean... I don't know what kind of credibility John Landis has here, but you'd think he wouldn't just outright lie about this kind of thing? Disney doesn't have much to lose on this either as long as Lucas isn't throwing a fit about it.
Bobby"WetBlanket"Roberts has a different take:
Comicbook.com said:Empire is reporting: "At a Q&A tonight John Landis dropped that Disney are finally going to re-release the theatrical cuts of the original Star Wars trilogy." Landis then added, the information was provided to him by his oldpal George Lucas.
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I mean... I don't know what kind of credibility John Landis has here, but you'd think he wouldn't just outright lie about this kind of thing? Disney doesn't have much to lose on this either as long as Lucas isn't throwing a fit about it.
Bobby"WetBlanket"Roberts has a different take:
BobbyRoberts said:So either Landis heard Lucas wrong, or Lucas misinterpreted what Landis was asking, or Lucas simply doesn't really know what's up (he also previously said Kasdan/Abrams threw out all his story ideas when it turns out that's not actually the case, either) and is just kinda guessing.
The whole thing is weird and annoying.
Like, even if you take it at face value, this story is three people removed from anyone involved with Lucasfilm (which is crazy since one of those people is George Lucas, but that's the world we live in now). So basically, best case scenario, it's an old guy casually bringing up a detail he remembered from a conversation he had awhile ago with another old guy who apparently doesn't give a shit about what's going on at a company he doesn't really deal with anymore.