[extropy-chat] Futures idea game (was Nano-assembler feasibility - politics)

[Stephen J. Van Sickle]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 22:56, Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> But I am still confused how the original Star Wars was judged 100%
> tohave been re-released *in theaters*.  It says"If the Star Warsmovie
> is not re-released to theatres by 1/1/99, the claim pays $0." Was
> there a theater re-release of the original Star Wars that Imissed?  I
> thought they just released a DVD.

Yep, there was a theater re-release, IIRC just before Episode 1 was
released.  It is the "new" version with Jaba the Hutt scenes added, and
the scene with Boba Fett jiggered to so that Han Solo didn't shoot him
in cold blood.  I went to see it.

I'm not sure if it was before 1/1/99 though.

sjv