Y’know, if a restored/remastered OOT were to happen within the next couple years, do you think Lucasfilm would just release the original three movies or do you think it would be all six (with the OT movies “just happening to include their original versions”)?
Reason I ask is because the OT hasn’t recieved preferential treatment on home media since forever ago. Yeah, there was the GOUT, but that was also the first time the original three were available individually so it hardly counts.
It’s actually kind of hard for me to imagine LFL re-releasing only the OT movies just for the sake of putting the OOT on the market. Even if the SE was from the newer 4k master, I feel like it would just seem awkward. Sure, we would be thrilled, but I could see prequel/SE fans not liking the preferential treatment the OT was getting. LFL doesn’t want division within the fandom like that. I could see them also reissuing the prequels at the same time. While the changes to TPM have not been nearly as extensive as those to the OT, it’s essentially its own SE now. The theatrical version would be a nice bonus, ditto the Imax cut of AotC.
This is why I don’t think they’ll bother to put out the OOT until the time comes for a 4k UHD release, which won’t be for another several years anyway. I could see them putting it together similarly to how they did the 2011 “complete saga” set. Maybe they could even carry over the dvd extras that weren’t included in the blu-ray (“The Beginning,” anyone?). There’s even a few good ones they’ve never included in any release, like the Fox specials hosted by Howie Long and Samuel L. Jackson that aired in '97 and '99, respectively. There was also The Legacy Revealed from EoD’s Kevin Burns, which aired on the history channel in 2007.
If it really is going to take that long, one upside is it will give us more time to petition Lucasfilm with everything we’d want to see included, like the '97 SE for example.