If, like me, you're a Star Wars fan and having all six of George Lucas' saga's live-action films on VHS and DVD isn't enough, get ready: The movies are coming out on Blu-Ray. At the Star Wars Celebration V earlier today, George Lucas finally announced the news that many of us have been waiting for and here are all the details that have so far been released!
"I wish I could say it's coming out this year, but it's coming out next year," he told the crowd at the event before going on to talk about the new special features fans can expect. "They'll be different kinds of additional material. I think you've seen enough behind the scenes material for a lifetime. There's some really good material that will be included in there, including more deleted scenes that you haven't seen yet."
IGN also reported that after this announcement by Lucas, that confirmed all six movies will be released in the format sometime in Fall 2011. Apparently, the press release they were given also said that the set will feature, "...documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives."
And as for why it's taken so long to release the movies on blu-ray, Lucas said: "We've been wanting to do it as soon as we possibly could, but we just wanted to do it when enough people would be able to buy it and see it. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It's a very, very expensive process to do it."
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