If your DVD copies of Star Wars just don't look that good on your Playstation 3, some happy news: George Lucas has announced that all six Star Wars films will be released on Blu-ray sometime in 2011. Though if you were hoping to see Han Solo shoot first, you're not going to be that happy.
Only the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy -- the one's that added such unnecessary things as Greedo shooting first -- will get the Blu-ray transfer. The reason? Because Lucas really didn't feel like doing anything with the originals.
"[It would be] kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good."
"You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally," he added. "It's a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version."
And a nation of Star Wars nerds grits their collective teeth. No word yet on whether the six films will be available individually, though considering it's doubtful many people would buy one of the prequels on Blu-ray if they didn't have to, they probably won't be. In the meantime, watch Han shoot first below. You're welcome.
ยท 'Star Wars' Films Coming to Blu-ray Next Year [NYT/ArtsBeat]