Jon Stewart is clearly a bigger Star Wars fan than he lets on, which made more than a couple of people scratch their heads, wondering why he was asked to interview George Lucas on stage at the official celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, Florida. The convention has been going on for the last two days, but today's discussion between Star Wars creator George Lucas and political comedian Jon Stewart was entertaining and hilarious, and needs to end up on a DVD somewhere. Stewart was even honored by Lucas with a one-of-a-kind action figure from "planet Stewjon." It was a figure of Stewart (with interchangeable heads) dressed as a Stromtrooper in vintage packaging.
The biggest news was that the complete Star Wars saga will be on Blu-ray next year. No date was mentioned, but it will definitely be in 2011. Lucas mentioned that he wants to make it special, but not the stuff we've seen before. It was at that point that Stewart brought Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) to the stage, where he introduced a rare clip that Star Wars fans like myself weren't even confident had been filmed.
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