# New Rumor About SW Episodes 7-9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737 "2004-08-27T04:06:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/21 "2004-08-28T03:40:18Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > \ > > I will be seeing, next Thursday, a special invitation-only advance screening of the new “director’s cut” of Lucas’s first feature _THX-1138._ Have you seen the updated scenes? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/22 "2004-08-28T04:25:47Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > It’s a pity Jim Varney is dead. I’d paid to see _Ernest Goes to Tatooine_. He can be reanimated as a glowing astral projection. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/23 "2004-08-28T14:03:09Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I’ve heard that Donald Pleasance shoots first in this version. Having already seen the **THX** cut in question (Cervaise and I can swap notes), I can confirm at least _this_ rumor isn’t true… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/24 "2004-08-28T14:10:32Z")
Thanks Tuckerfan, for making me spray coffee out my nose. Best laugh of the morning 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/25 "2004-08-28T19:38:55Z")
With luck, if Lucas annouces he’s really doing it, someone will just kill him. The way things are going, though, there may be an awful lot of shooters and stabbers on the scene. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/26 "2004-08-30T17:07:01Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Have you seen the updated scenes? Well, no. That’s why I’m going. I’ve heard _rumors_ that the thing is Bespin-ized all to hell, and that it’s less a director’s cut and more a director’s evisceration, but I gotta see for myself. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/27 "2004-08-30T17:35:17Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > With luck, if Lucas annouces he’s really doing it, someone will just kill him. The way things are going, though, there may be an awful lot of shooters and stabbers on the scene. 😉 Murder on the Dantooine Express? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/28 "2004-08-30T17:44:52Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Well, no. That’s why I’m going. > > I’ve heard _rumors_ that the thing is Bespin-ized all to hell, and that it’s less a director’s cut and more a director’s evisceration, but I gotta see for myself. I gotta wonder what it is about directors from this era that makes them want to revisit their early masterpieces and fuck them all to hell. Lucas and Coppola were classmates who sometimes can’t leave well enough alone. I wonder if they both learned this together in film school. Like Apocalpyse Now Redux, for instance. Frank, buddy, they have editors for a _reason_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/29 "2004-08-30T19:46:37Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Lucas and Coppola were classmates who sometimes can’t leave well enough alone. Lucas and Coppola were never classmates. They met on the set of _Finian’s Rainbow_. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/30 "2004-08-30T20:31:57Z")
I thought they both went to UCLA film school? (too lazy to look it up) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/31 "2004-08-30T20:49:36Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > I thought they both went to UCLA film school? (too lazy to look it up) They did, but that doesn’t mean they were classmates. IIRC, Jim Morrison was there at about the same time, and sadly, I don’t think any of his influence rubbed off on Lucas. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737/32 "2004-08-30T20:57:04Z")
Lucas attended film school at USC. Coppola got his MFA in film from UCLA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rumor-about-sw-episodes-7-9/261737.md?page=1)