Original Trilogy Novels?

I would love to see these re-released as hardbacks, like in the same format as the prequel books.

I know you can get the small crappy versions of the original trilogy but i think it would be great if one of the EU authors would take this on. I dont care which one, everyone has their own opinions on them and im not going into an argument over who is good and who is bad.

The books would be able to include all of the extra events that the EU has brought about and it would add a new perspective to the original trilogy. We could read what the characters are actually thinking.

And it would make my collection look better

So there.

 

Is it time for this thread already?

For the record, yet again, I agree that it would be cool.

 

Sorry i dont come here too often so i apologize if its already been discussed

 

I agree that this would be a great idea. I know that there are plenty of people who love the ROTJ novelization, but I've read them all, and I really don't think there's anything good about any of them. I would definitely love it if some great EU authors would write full-length novelizations without all that nonsense like "what's a duck?", Luke in Blue Squadron, blue Yoda, Hobbie and Veers dying at Hoth, and Obi-Wan and Owen being brothers.

 

They are brothers.

 

Yes, I know all about Owen Kenobi. But that doesn't exactly fit with what Ben said in the Jedi novel, does it? No.

 

"What's a duck?" is awesome, the prequel novelizations have some disagreements with the final screenplays too, it doesn't say that Hobbie died at Hoth, and the Obi-Wan/Owen tale of brotherly love has yet to be told!

 

Sorry, missed this bit the first time:

Nothing?

The entirety of Vader's death scene is as good as anything in Stover's novelization. One of the top ten best-written Star Wars books ever, easily.

 

They were, circa 1996 (with covers matching the then-current video covers, of the last pre-Special Edition release).

 

Heh... this seems to come up at least once a year or so.

I, too, would certainly like to see something like this. There are lots of reasons people dislike the idea of an actual remake of the films (mostly the silliness of an Ultimate Special Super Elite Edition) but I'd be more than open to them releasing improved versions of the novels. In fact, since they insist on churning out big three stories, this would be a nice way of them achieving that and making easy room in the publishing schedule for other non-big three books.

I often look at my bookshelf and feel there's a gap where the OT should sit. There's the old omnibus but I've never really liked it and some parts conflict with more recent material. I would absolutely love to have some OT novels up there on par with the ROTS one. The the odd addition like a scene with Palpatine disbanding the Senate in the ANH one would make me happy. Maybe a bit more depth on what Luke got up to with Yoda or what Obi-Wan taught him during their brief time together, etc. Just small things but the sort of small things that can make a novel better than a film at certain things.

Sadly, no matter how many times this comes up, they never seem to want to do it. Personally, when they do the Special Ultimate 3D Editions or whatever they're going to be called during the next few years, I'd like for them to release new novelisations alongside them. If we're going to be spending money to watch the same films again, there's no reason to assume we wouldn't buy the same books again too.

It'd give us a classic big three fix and, in my opinion, be a better way of enticing new readers into the EU than things like the NJO or LOTF. I've always felt using the film novelisations themselves to get people interested in reading Star Wars literature would be better than Mark Hamill on the cover of "yet another Star Wars book *yawn*" which is how I've always found most people react to the new books.

 

I'd prefer just a "Special Edition" of the novels where an editor cleans up these little things in the texts of the originals, and maybe adds a few little details here and there to smooth out their relation to the EU, but leaves the bulk of the text intact.

 

Yeah. They'll be more likely to re-release the original novelizations 100 times before they'd commission a redux.

BTW, the SFBC does have a nifty 3-in-1 HC collection if anyone is looking just for bookshelf-coolness.