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Post #1070124

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Fang Zei
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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26-Apr-2017, 2:42 PM

Cobra Kai said:

I just read an interesting quote from a certain person over at the steve hoffman forums.

This is concerning the original restoration for the 2004 release:

I was told point blank at ILM that Lucas kind of didn’t really care that much about home video, and he was mainly concerned with whatever project he was on at the moment. They told me they had considered remastering the theatrical versions AND the revised versions simultaneously, but there just was no time available to do it because Fox demanded a pretty stringent deadline. Money was part of it, but it was more about time than money.

That certainly wasn’t the first time Fox gave George a “stringent deadline” and said it was “more about time than money.” 😉

As for not really caring about home video, that doesn’t surprise me. He was going to wait until RotS was on dvd just to put out the OT on dvd at all, which would’ve been less than a year before the hd disc formats hit the streets.