Up Front
So you've picked up this VIDIOT and want to know about the new movie that features both Darth Vader and the Starship Enterprise? You mean you don't already know? It's called The Jedi's Trek, and rumors are already circulating that it'll by the biggest moneymaker the world has even seen.
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Up Front
So you've picked up this VIDIOT and want to know about the new movie that features both Darth Vader and the Starship Enterprise?
You mean you don't already know?
It's called The Jedi's Trek, and rumors are already circulating that it'll by the biggest moneymaker the world has even seen. Co-produced by George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Steven Spielberg, it's been an extremely hushed-up blockbuster very few have been privy to. And it's due to open on Christmas Day, 1 984.
The plan? Simple.
• Dual promotion by both Universal and 20th Century-Fox, who’ll publicize the film both in the States and overseas.
• Simultaneous publication of William Kotzwinkle's The Jedi Trek, adapted from the screenplay, as a hardbound by Simon & Schuster ($20 for the first run, excluding 500"special autographed editions" at $100 each) and a Bantam paperback, bearing a hefty $4.95 price tag.
• A two-hour PBS special, narrated by Carl Sagan and Richard Dreyfuss, titled "The Making Of The Jedi's Trek," to be aired on Easter Sunday, 1985.
• Special leasings to pay-TV services in March, 1986, at a minimum of $12.50 per household; one-time-only rights for HBO and Showtime, May, 1 987, and NBC by Christmas, 1988.
• A Marvel comic adaptation.
• A deluxe, 3-D arcade game by SEGA in three configurations: cockpit, stand-up and cocktail table.
• A The Jedi’s Trek videogame released by ColecoVision for their own systems, Parker Brothers for Atari VCS and Intellivision.
• An initial three-month rental period for the videocassette version of the film in both VHS and Beta formats beginning May, 1987, then available for purchase at the record low cost of $24.95 per cassette.
• Simultaneous release as RCA CED and MCA Laservision videodiscs.
• A soundtrack album on MCA Records.
• A three-volume boxed set on Columbia Records, narrated by William Shatner, featuring full dialogue and original music by John Wil liams and Quincy Jones.
• Over 150 merchandisings of the product name, overseen by Spielberg and Roddenberry, covering an array of products ranging from T-shirts and lunchboxes to a plush, $350 Spock "doll.''
Staggering, isn’t it? Most hushed-up of all, though—and don't tell anyone you read it here, please—is that over $450 billion will be generated by this project, all of which, incredibly, is to be split three ways Lucas, Roddenberry and Spielberg wil I each receive a guaranteed $ 150 billion upon the film's completion by Labor Day of next year.
We at VIDIOT realize how unbelievable this story is, which is one of the reasons we just made it up in the first place. All we know is that there's a brand new Star Trek arcade game by SEGA, and a new Parker Brothers home game called Jedi Arena, and that we've reviewed both of them in this issue, and hey—wouldn't it all just figure?
Bet we scared you.
