{"id":9713,"date":"2006-05-05T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/05\/fan-pressure-or-cunning-plan.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:29:54","slug":"fan_pressure_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/fan_pressure_or.html","title":{"rendered":"Fan pressure? Or cunning plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucasfilm has announced it will <\/em>(despite earlier insistance it wouldn’t) issue the original, unenhanced, untweaked, un-Greedo-shoots-first versions of the original Star Wars <\/em>trilogy<\/a>, coming this September.<\/p>\n

Which begs the question of whether this is a response to fan demands for such a release, or another clever ploy by Lucasfilm to get big sales of yet another release of the SW flicks. Or, perhaps, both …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucasfilm has announced it will (despite earlier insistance it wouldn’t) issue the original, unenhanced, untweaked, un-Greedo-shoots-first versions of the original Star Wars trilogy, coming this September. 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