At this stage Harmy will be using it for despecialised, he isn’t planning on releasing a ‘grindhouse’ of Empire.
I am working on fully restoring all 3 original movies from multiple prints, to create versions that are faithful to the original release prints for archival purposes. The aim is to have them restored to the point that they could be recorded back to film for archiving, to preserve the original releases, the way they were seen in cinemas.

If anyone wants to see work in progress etc. on that, bounce me a PM.
It is an incredibly time consuming process, and really requires checking and repairing every single frame of each film, so progress will be slow, but I feel it is worth it to preserve these films.

I don’t think in terms of ‘public releases’ of finished products, or talk on open forums about releasing any complete versions, so you might notice those questions keep not getting answered by me here 😃

I’m sure once the films ae restored to archival level, that I or others might use that as a base for restoring the film completely, removing composited-in dirt and scratches, minimising and matching grain between shots etc. to get back to an ‘ideal negative’, but the archival versions will be done first.