When the prequels of which we do not speak (although perhaps we should) were ramping up for their release, Lucasfilm couldn't rely on the then-burgeoning online rumour mill to whip fans up into a palpable frenzy. Instead they decided to remaster and re-release the original Star Wars trilogy in cinemas and then on home video, which reminded people how good they were and how much they wanted a new series of films. Such an innocent time. Even then, though, there was a percentage of the audience who remembered how the films looked in the seventies and eighties, which was...slightly different. George Lucas went back and added a bunch of CGI where it wasn't needed, changed dialogue, and then there was the whole "Who shot first?" debacle. And people weren't happy about that. All of which makes the rumour that Disney are gearing up to re-release the original trilogy once again - re-re-release? - in anticipation of the upcoming seventh film all the more believable. This past week the scuttlebutt started up that Disney were going to remaster the original versions of the films, with none of the added CGI or plot finagling that went on last time. Of course the issue there is that it's Fox who still own the rights to the original trilogy, and Disney just get to make new films and stuff in the series. That doesn't mean that News Corp won't try and capitalise on the continuation of their lost franchise by sticking the films out on Blu-Ray around the time Star Wars Episode VII hits theatres, mind - in fact, we'd rather welcome it. Just so long as they don't go changing things again...