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Post #1021972

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joefavs
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
21-Dec-2016, 12:17 AM

I think we get an OOT blu-ray next year for the anniversary, and then a UHD release in 2020 when Disney gets the rights to V and VI and the ST is finished. I can’t imagine them releasing nothing for the 40th, and there’s no way they can get away with just giving the 2011 SE new packaging again. I suppose it’s possible we get a new master of the SE (which I’d grudgingly accept just to get rid of the awful current version), but that doesn’t seem big enough to me. I’m not going to be gutted if it doesn’t happen given some of the amazing 35mm based projects over in the preservations section we have to look forward to, but I’m still cautiously optimistic. Now that Rogue One is out in the wild, though, I think if we don’t hear anything in a month or two that will be that for 2017. For the past few months I’ve figured they wouldn’t announce anything during the promotion of the new film so as not to confuse the situation, but now that that’s over I expect something soon or not at all.