Updated! REVENGE OF THE SITH final one sheet arrives!

Hey folks Harry here again. Got an update about the origin of the image that is the final poster for REVENGE OF THE SITH. Here's what Drew Struzan had to say:

Hello,

I'm the webmaster of the unofficial Dutch Star Wars fan website www.Sith.nl

Many people think the new Drew Struzan Revenge of the Poster has been altered by Lucasfilm. We contacted Mr. Struzan and asked him about this.

This is his reply:

The original design did go through the normal incarnations. The finish is two paintings combined as I designed them. Someday the drawings and paintings will be seen but this is the poster and the design approved by Lucasfilm.

Hope this is interesting news to you!

(the link to the original article on our site:

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Best wishes,

Erwin

www.sith.nl

So there ya go - Lucasfilm did mess with it quite a bit - which I think is what made me feel it was not balanced well. Can't wait to see Drew's original two paintings though! --- OK - here's what I wrote yesterday...

Hey folks, Harry here... Oddly - I feel this poster just misses in comparison to the other 5 Drew Struzan posters. I've heard a rumor that LFL fiddled around a bit with Drew's work and frankly... it doesn't seem to flow with the other images - mainly because the black of Vader's helmet seems to bleed into the border making it seem as though there is no border - thus breaking the stylistic look of the other 5. However, that annoying photoshop lens flare and color going up that one side... makes it feel uneven to me. That being said - the rendering of the characters through Drew's wonderful eye is as magnificent as ever... There just seems something wrong with that top half layout. Maybe it'll grow on me. No Chewie or Robot Bastard (aka Darth Grievous). I was kinda hoping for Padme on a table with legs in futuristic stirrups and Baby Selwyn winking and giggling towards us all. Sigh - well - that gives the folks at MAD something to do! And a new teaser poster for A NEW HOPE. A baby carriage with a hand out holding an ignited lightsaber. The phrase, "There's Only One Thing Wrong With The Skywalker Baby... IT'S ALIVE!" Or maybe that's been done.

Click here to check out the new poster, and to see how it fits in the now complete 6 poster set!