Dang, poita. That’s simultaneously both the most depressing and incredibly exciting post this site has seen in ages. Thank you for all the effort you’ve already made to preserving film that no one else seems either willing or able to, and thank you for this renewed effort. Godspeed in your endeavors and health!

This does also raise so many questions, but I’ll stick to a couple of the most significant.

Does this mean starting from scratch or will some of the previous scans and associated work be included in this new restoration?
Regarding copyright; does this potentially mean that in some parts of the world one could legally press and sell “official” copies of Star Wars (or the whole trilogy?) WITHOUT Lucasfilm’s/Disney’s involvement?

Thank you again Poita, this really is tremendous! Hopefully one day history will remember you as a key player in saving our artistic history when those who should’ve wouldn’t.