So we have:
Making Star Wars on the YES side.
Bill & Pablo on the NO side.
?
I can’t see why Pablo would think George has any say in this, but he works for Lucasfilm so what the hell do we know?
Maybe there actually was some kind of agreement not to release the original versions when he sold everything to Disney. He’s one of their biggest shareholders now, so it’s not like Disney can just completely disregard his wishes (but then again they threw out his treatments for the ST). There was even that rumor a couple years ago about how Fox doesn’t feel comfortable being involved with it while George is still alive.
Then there’s the John Landis quote about George telling him that Disney is going to put them out “the way they were,” and that was only a little over a year ago. His story would certainly seem to conflict with Pablo’s.
Suffice it to say we’ll want some kind of clarification from the panel in Orlando. It’s at least encouraging to read confirmation after all these years that the pieces of the o-neg replaced for the SE were indeed put into storage and not trashed.