The "Star Wars" films that hit Blu-ray on September 16 aren’t going to be the same movies you grew up with.
Like the previous special editions director George Lucas has released, the Blu-ray releases will be tinkered with and updated to the director's liking. The Digital Bits says that most of it is small stuff that is for the better, like remedied color timing (the lightsabers now look a lot better) and edited out mistakes (say goodbye to the puppeteer's arm on the Wampa on "Empire Strikes Back").
The biggest change to the movies, however, is the switch from the puppet Yoda in "The Phantom Menace" to a new digital one that will be consistent with "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith." As to whether there will be any more changes to the films, well, we'll have to wait until the release to find out if Lucas left in other surprises.
Check out the rest of today's film news after the jump!
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'Frankenstein' Gets A Modern Retelling, So Which Classic Horror Story Is Next?
Posted 12/3/10 11:20 am EST by Terri Schwartz in Commentary, News
Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has purchased the rights to "Frankenstein" and plans for "From Prada to Nada" writer Craig Fernandez to pen a contemporary version of the classic horror story. Considering Fernandez's "From Prada to Nada" is a modern retelling of "Sense and Sensibility" with a Latin spin, he might be the right guy for the job.
With Hollywood so hell-bent on taking these classic horror stories and making them young, hip and sexy, we figured we'd offer up a few of our own suggestions on some films we'd like to see get — for lack of a better phrase — the "Twilight" treatment. Who knows, maybe you'll have some hunky Frankenstein hanging on a poster over your bed next year? Read More...
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