{"id":3529,"date":"2011-05-04T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:17:44","slug":"star-wars-blu-ray-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/star-wars-blu-ray-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Blu-Ray Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"swbrcompletesaga\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/05\/swbrcompletesaga-930x1040.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm today announced that the entire <em>Star Wars<\/em> saga will arrive on high-definition Blu-ray on September 12th all over  the world, except for North America, which will be getting it on  September 16th. And there\u2019s more than 40 hours of bonus features. Here\u2019s  the breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Today is \u201cMay the Fourth,\u201d aka Star Wars Day. Lucasfilm used this auspicious date to announce the full list of features for the Blu-ray releases of Star Wars, revealing pretty much everything but pricing, including the lovely, original box art.<\/p>\n<p>The saga is being presented in full 1080p high-definition video, and  6.1 DTS Surround Sound audio. You can choose to buy the complete saga,  or just collections of the classic trilogy or the prequel trilogy. The  special features include tons of content newly dug-up from the Lucasfilm  archives and never before seen by the public. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cast &amp; Crew commentaries for all 6 films, including brand new  commentaries compiled from archival interviews with the cast and crew  (nifty!)<\/li>\n<li>One Blu-ray disc is devoted entirely to archival material for the  prequels, including the deleted and extended scenes from the DVDs,  concept art, cast &amp; crew interviews, a fly-through of the Lucasfilm  Archives, and more. Another Blu-ray disc contains the same materials for  the original trilogy.<\/li>\n<li>An additional disc 8 documentaries \u2014 some new, some old \u2014 which  range from 26 minutes up to 91 minutes in length. There\u2019s the original  \u201cMaking of <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u201d from 1977; \u201c<em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>: SPFX,\u201d from 1980, about the effects used in the first two films; \u201cClassic Creatures: <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>,\u201d  from 1983, which chronicles the film\u2019s production and techniques used  to create creatures like Jabba the Hutt; 1977\u2032s \u201cAnatomy of a Dewback,\u201d a  look into the making of the Special Editions; 2007\u2032s \u201c<em>Star Wars<\/em> Tech,\u201d which originally aired on the History Channel; \u201cStar Warriors,\u201d a  2007 docu about the saga\u2019s costumed fans; \u201cA Conversation with the  Masters: <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> 30 Years Later,\u201d a 2010 retrospective starring George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Lawrence Kasdan, and John Williams; and 2011\u2032s\u201d<em>Star Wars<\/em> Spoofs,\u201d a collection of satire clips from TV shows and Internet videos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lucasfilm will be showing off some of these special features at Comic-Con International in San Diego this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31451\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31451\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"swbrtrilogy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/05\/swbrtrilogy1-930x1123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"608\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31452\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31452\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"swbrtrilogy2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/05\/swbrtrilogy2-930x1124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucasfilm today announced that the entire Star Wars saga will arrive on high-definition Blu-ray on September 12th all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}