Star Wars – The Complete Saga on Blu-ray is Available for Pre-order! Details Revealed!
At long last, the Star Wars Saga is coming to Blu-ray this September and is available for pre-order right now! The Star Wars Saga and the Indiana Jones Trilogy are the movies I’ve been the most anxious to arrive in high definition and it’s awesome that we finally have a release date of September 16, 2011!
My love for this series is well known, as you can see from my first article for this site here, and I can’t wait for September to arrive!
For the first time, all six Star Wars movies will be sold together and this time there will even be the deleted and alternate scenes all of us hardcore fans have been waiting for! Take a look at the most anticipated Blu-ray release for next year!
The most anticipated Blu-ray release ever — the Star Wars Saga — emerges from light speed this September 2011. For the first time, all six of George Lucas’ epic films (Episodes I-VI) are united in one complete set. Fans worldwide are able to pre-order now with online retailers.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release Star Wars in three distinct sets to meet the needs of every Star Wars fan:
- Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray (9-disc Set includes all six films)
- Star Wars: Prequel Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes I-III)
- Star Wars: Original Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes IV-VI)
Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films utilizing the highest possible picture and audio presentation, along with three additional discs and more than 30 hours of extensive special features including never-before-seen deleted and alternate scenes, an exploration of the exclusive Star Wars archives, and much more.
Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will be available for $139.99 US/$179.99 CAN and theStar Wars: Trilogy Sets for $69.99 US/89.99 CAN. Pricing for each set will vary by international territory.
Flanked by a legion of his finest Imperial stormtroopers, Darth Vader himself joined Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment President Mike Dunn at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to announce the release, vowing “The forces of the Empire will be at your disposal to assure the success of this endeavor.”
“The Star Wars Saga is the most anticipated Blu-ray collection since the launch of the high-def format,” Dunn said. “The epic franchise pioneered sound and visual presentation in theaters and is perfectly suited to do it again in the home, with a viewing experience only possible with Blu-ray.”
“With all six episodes available for the first time in one collection, this is a great way for families and home audiences to experience the complete Saga from start to finish,” said Doug Yates, Vice President of Marketing, Online, Distribution, Lucasfilm Ltd. “And with the quality of high-definition, Blu-ray provides the most immersive home experience possible.”
“The Star Wars franchise has been the most anticipated Blu-ray release by Amazon’s customers,” said Bill Carr, Vice President of Music and Video at Amazon.com. “We think that Star Wars will be incredibly popular with our customers, and we expect pre-orders to be very strong.”
Pre-order Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray or the individual Trilogy sets today!
DAY 1 BABY! NO WORK! FRYING MY BRAIN ON STAR WARS!
This announcement made my day! I can’t wait for September 16!!! I will be taking time off to watch this as well!
It made up for the Verizon iPhone not being announced today 🙁
Meh.
Gerard I don’t get you. You get excited about some weird avant-garde Star Wars posters but not about this? I sense a disturbance in the force…
The thought of someone buying just the prequels on Blu-ray humors me.
Ignorant consumer: “let me start with these first three flicks, and if I don’t like them, I wont get those other movies, they’ll probably suck.”
@Sean – not that I don’t like the first three films, but I’m over the hype of the SAME THREE FILMS! You can only over hype the same things before they become irrelevant.
As far as the avant garde posters go, those are actually unique items within the context of the Star Wars universe which is different. It’s still hype, but a different kind of hype.
There’s a reason they are hyped so much…it’s because they are awesome! I’ve loved these movies for as long as I can remember so I don’t care how much hype surrounds these movies, because in my opinion it is well deserved!
I love them all!
The prequels suck no matter what, and so do the scenes of Hayden being inserted into ROTJ, Inexcusable.
Nothing can beat the classic trilogy but the prequels had plenty of good things as well. I didn’t mind Hayden being inserted into Jedi per se, but I didn’t like the way they did it. Overall, I liked the changes made to the series to make it more seamless. I do miss the original Fett voice though.
Han shoots first, btw.
Actually there is no first as Greedo never had a chance to shoot at Han in the original version! Han was too fast/sneaky!
True, he blasted him from underneath the table. *what’s this hand doing*
So will the Blu-ray versions feature Greedo shooting first and Hayden’s ghost on Endor?
If anything, there will be even more… “enhancements”
I don’t know yet Gregg. There haven’t been any leaks yet but I would be shocked if there weren’t some changes, since Lucas has modified every release in some fashion up till now. I bet at the very least that there will be a new CGI Yoda for the Phantom Menace though.
I hope that the UK version will be priced like the Alien Anthology set. If not, then I will hold off. A 9 disc set for roughly $52 shipped sounds about right to me.
*crosses fingers*
$90 for the six movies is a lot less that I thought it would cost. I think that’s a fair price but of course I would love it if it was even less. Lucas could have charged $150 for the set and many of us would have paid it so I’m glad he didn’t get greedy. 🙂
@Sean – Greedy? Too late for that. What about all of those countless sets he’s released in the past? I’d say he kind of cut the fans a break with this one.
Not by much, though.
BTW, looks like the date has been changed to 9/27.
Well each of those sets were released for a reason though. Whether it was because it was THX certified, widescreen, or the original or special editions, they are were at least different. I would have been more upset if he just kept releasing the same set over and over. I have a feeling that he saved the real goodies for the high def set!
Nah, then he’ll release 3-D “exclusives” when those versions come out. Screw all that. I mean, if you want to give the man more of your money, then by all means.
You’re giving him way too much benefit of the doubt when you know exactly what he’s doing. Milking it.
And when the 3D versions do come out that will be another update. You’re right in the fact that he could make everyone wait until the 3D versions are done and just do one release, but do you really think the fans want to wait that long to see these movies on Blu-ray? I know I don’t. It’s taken too long as it is for my tastes. I’ll happily fork over the money for the inevitable 3D releases five years from now.
Then his work is done.
Cha-ching!