Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 05/19/06 01:52

Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

>If you took the trouble to read today's Digital Bits, you'd find out
>that George Wasn't Kidding when he said "The prints were
>destroyed"...They WERE.
>Which, presumably, is *why* we're getting the port-dumped laserdisk
>pre-Special Edition transfers from ten years ago--There t'warn't nothing
>else in the vault.
>
>Or, if you choose, check out the USA Today interview with a Lucas exec
>who's clearly not happy about it either, but Gone is Gone.

The full rant at Digital BIts presents a pretty convincing argument why the
"t'warn't nothin in the vault" argument doesn't hold water. Even if Lucas is
the complete idiot he says he is, there are still materials that could be
used.

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