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Post #643900

Author
Ziz
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More dailies/deleted scenes in digital "making of" books...
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Date created
7-Jun-2013, 5:35 PM

I never bought the whole "too expensive to restore" story.  Wasn't there some film restorer company that offered to do it for free and Lucas still said no?

The stories about the original version of the film no longer existing are bullshit.  Lucas saves EVERYTHING - how do you think all these "missing" deleted scenes and bonus material keep surfacing with every re-release and repackaging?  If that stuff still exists, why wouldn't the films themselves be in protected storage somewhere?

Also, look at the clips of SW in the "Empire of Dreams" documentary that came with the original '04 DVD release.  In the section where they're talking about the release of the film, the crawl doesn't have "Episode IV A New Hope" on it, Han shoots first (and only!) and the Death Star explosion doesn't have the shockwave on it.  And it all looks DAMN good video quality!  If "the original version of the film no longer exists" then where did they get this footage from?

Lucas has been milking the SE and PT for all he could for as long as he could.  Now that Disney is in charge, I don't doubt that we'll see a proper OT release at some point.  The question is when.