If you believe George Lucas isn’t yet rich enough, you’re going to be pleased in September, when you’ll have yet another opportunity to buy Star Wars movies on DVD.

If you believe Lucas has plenty of money already, thank you, but, like me, you prefer the original Star Wars movies to the tarted-up “special editions” currently available on DVD, you may wind up making him richer in spite of yourself. From starwars.com:

In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie and, as bonus material, the theatrical edition of the film. That means you’ll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983.

This is good news. Next year, perhaps we’ll be able to buy the movies again, on hi-def DVD. Maybe with a bonus documentary showing George Lucas morphing from Obi-Wan Kenobi into Jabba the Hutt.

Via Backup Brain: Here’s a performance of Hail to the Chief to pay George W. Bush all the honor and respect he truly deserves.