CatBus said:
towne32 said:
I suppose I could go look at that thread again and not be lazy. But isn't the strong evidence just people who claimed to have seen it with no proof? (people who previously claimed it was the April 2015 digital release, until that came out and then "corrected" themselves)
No, it's based on a pretty fleeting but nevertheless concrete preview clip from Reliance Media. Whether the 4K scan will ever amount to anything, be released as a consumer product, etc, is still an open question, but somebody's doing something, and that something oddly doesn't exactly match any previous release, at least in the preview clip (it would have been helpful if they included the Han/Jabba scene or something that helped nail down the clip's pedigree, but the clips are from scenes that weren't changed much, so it took our neighborhood lightsaber-glow-specialists and whatnot to sort out what it was).
Ah, okay. I hadn't seen, or don't remember, the lightsaber discussion. Obviously the color timing of it is yet another interpretation (and hopefully what we saw was a work in progress).
Assuming they plan on doing an actual release of the new scan and it really is the 1997 print, they presumably are going to either 'roll' the film(s) forward or backward to 2011+ or 1977/1981. It wouldn't really make sense to release specifically the 1997 version. Fans of the 2011, ironically, might be confused or find it inferior. Obviously, fans of the OOT won't care aside from chopping it to bits for preservations.
I suppose the most likely explanation is that the 2004-2011 changes were made in 1080p only. Do we know if that's the case? These parts would need to be redone or upscaled or something.
Still, if there is any truth at all to the 1977 negatives being problematic and degraded, would it be reasonable for them to have used the 1997 negatives for the bulk of the film and 'despecialized' from there?
