It’s been my hope Disney would release the OUT, but I saw this Digital Bits article:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/022417-0100
I don’t know if anyone else saw this, but my hope for an OUT release this year dropped. Don’t delete your Harmy files yet. I sincerely don’t get why Disney just doesn’t do the restoration, especially since they’ve been otherwise sympathetic to fans otherwise.
“In addition, 20th Century Fox’s Senior Vice President of Library and Technical Services, Shawn Belston, was also on hand at the Wexner event last night. He confirmed that all of the “trims” removed from the original cut negative (in the mid-1990s, to create the SEs) still exist as well.”
We’ve been told so many things from different seemingly reliable sources. It’s hard to believe who and what.
So Disney doesn’t have access to a cleaned up print of Star Wars, but does Fox?