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digitalfreaknyc said:

DominicCobb said:

10 years after Star Wars, the film Witches of Eastwick was released. What do those two have in common? Musical scores by John Williams. Believe it or not, Cher was the star of that film, which, of course, makes her the most obvious candidate to do a review of the original Star Wars in its unaltered form before its 4K UHD HDR 3D Blu-ray Digital VR release.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. But wouldn’t Cher be under an NDA? Well no, because REMEMBER she won an Oscar in 88 for Moonstruck, and, after last Sunday’s Best Picture kerfuffle with Moonlight, the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse Coopers, being in some deep shit, nullified all legal contracts. WHICH MEANS Cher’s NDA is up, but, she still needs to save face with Lucasfilm OBVIOUSLY because of her upcoming Sy Snootles anthology film (keep up, won’t you?).

So then how do we know all of this? HELLO of course she still wants fans to know what’s up, so she’s been sending coded signals for months via her Twitter account.

Just look at this tweet from February 2 (https://twitter.com/cher/status/827226043467456513):

FYI ARENA IS AMAZING.SO 🌬❄️
Rehearsed on Stage,Sang,Danced. I’m still Somewhat of a clod. New opening costume…You’ll need smelling salts 🤣

Okay let’s break this down. So we all know that “Arena” is referring to Season 1 Episode 18 of the original Star Trek. That’s not a coincidence. Notice how the word “original” is very similar to the word “original” in “original trilogy,” or how the word “Star” is very similar to the word “star” in “Star Wars.” Fascinating, right? She then says “Rehearsed on Stage,Sang,Danced.” I don’t know what that means. But THEN she says “I’m still Somewhat of a clod.” the word “still” meaning the same - as in same as in the 70s - and notice the capitalized “S” as in the capitalized “S” in “SE” which stands for “Special Edition”! The rest of the tweet of course refers to the new packaging and smellovision feature.

Now, stick with me here, because this one’s a doozy. On March 4, she tweeted this (https://twitter.com/cher/status/838273936848670720):

WATCHING 1ST STAR WARS IN THEATRE.SPECIAL EFFECTS OLD,BUT ❤️IT.REMINDS ME OF 1st TIME. HANS,CHEWY,LUKE,OLD BEN,
👑LEIA,DARTH VADER,HYPERSPACE

Don’t let the caps lock distract you, she specifically mentions the words “watching” and “old.” Put these two words together - “watching old.” Watching old what Cher? Could it be an old movie? Could it maybe even be gasp Star Wars?

I guess we’ll all find out when she shows up at Celebration.

Was that supposed to be funny?

Just the truth ™.

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The idea that Cher has gotten the first look at the OOT restoration and dropped the news in a barely readable Twitter post is ridiculous.

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All obvious joke theories aside, Cher might have been an interesting addition to the Star Wars cast, or even the 1980 Flash Gordon.

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Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

All obvious joke theories aside, Cher might have been an interesting addition to the Star Wars cast, or even the 1980 Flash Gordon.

They’re even discussing Cher’s tweet in the Blu-ray.com forums…

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digitalfreaknyc said:

Saw this posted today.

So the question is…where was she and what did she watch?

Who is this Hans character? Maybe she was thinking of Hans Gruber? 😃

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moviefreakedmind said:

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Han Solo IRL said:

Would it be Disney in charge of restoring Star Wars material or Lucasfilm? If it’s the latter then I’m not sure that what Gluck says would even matter. That, and we don’t even know what question he was answering. Better to just reserve all expectations until April rather than go in optimistic or pessimistic.

I agree. I don’t doubt that Gluck knows what he’s talking about, but he wouldn’t be the one to spill the beans if this is actually happening. To my knowledge he didn’t say anything about whether or not restorationists are or have been working on this stuff.

He essentially only confirmed, that the negative of Star Wars is still conformed to the SE. He mentions nothing about the scans of the SE negative or the OOT elements. In other words a digital reconstruction of the OOT can exist, or can be reconstructed, while the physical negative is still conformed to the SE, and the OOT elements are in storage.

^This
The digital bits article basically told us nothing.

There is also a reputable poster on the blu-ray forums that says he knows for a “100% fact” that Disney is in the process of or has already finished scanning at 4k every single scrap of Star Wars film in their possession.
Now, I’m sure that’s pretty standard for Disney for archival purposes, and it obviously doesn’t mean they are working on an OOT, but at least it’s something…

Can you point me towards that guy? I can’t track that down through google or the bluray forums.

A user named captveg posted that they have it on good authority (they can’t name names) that Disney is currently in the process of digitally archiving every last piece of film at Lucasfilm pertaining to Star Wars, if they haven’t finished doing so already.

Before you go “oh, another unnamed source,” it does sound like captveg isn’t just making this up:

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=13295105&postcount=62144

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Maybe they’d put out a bonus disc containing scenes and segments from the original versions that have been remastered, allowing an editor to recreate a mostly OOT. Maybe that would satiate those in the company who want to put it out and those who want to resist doing so for whatever reason, misplaced loyalty to GL or otherwise.

My stance on revising fan edits.

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Sougouk said:
Who is this Hans character? Maybe she was thinking of Hans Gruber? 😃

It’s probably THIS guy:

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Rogue One is redundant. Just play the first mission of DARK FORCES.
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Hal 9000 said:

Maybe they’d put out a bonus disc containing scenes and segments from the original versions that have been remastered, allowing an editor to recreate a mostly OOT. Maybe that would satiate those in the company who want to put it out and those who want to resist doing so for whatever reason, misplaced loyalty to GL or otherwise.

Wouldn’t that encourage a hell of a lot of pirating, though?

Seeking only the most natural looking colors for Star Wars '77

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Hal 9000 said:

Maybe they’d put out a bonus disc containing scenes and segments from the original versions that have been remastered, allowing an editor to recreate a mostly OOT. Maybe that would satiate those in the company who want to put it out and those who want to resist doing so for whatever reason, misplaced loyalty to GL or otherwise.

I also highly doubt they would do this. It’s going to be either a restoration using strictly 1977-1983 material or nothing at all.

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Haarspalter said:

Sougouk said:
Who is this Hans character? Maybe she was thinking of Hans Gruber? 😃

It’s probably THIS guy:

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Hahaha… He looks like Clark Griswald from European Vacation.

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Hal 9000 said:

Maybe they’d put out a bonus disc containing scenes and segments from the original versions that have been remastered, allowing an editor to recreate a mostly OOT. Maybe that would satiate those in the company who want to put it out and those who want to resist doing so for whatever reason, misplaced loyalty to GL or otherwise.

If they did that, they would have absolutely no reason NOT to use branching to view the theatrical cut. If anything, it’d kick up a mighty large shitstorm

What, a man builds a giant mound of dirt in his house and you aren’t entertained?

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SwissArmyTin said:

Hal 9000 said:

Maybe they’d put out a bonus disc containing scenes and segments from the original versions that have been remastered, allowing an editor to recreate a mostly OOT. Maybe that would satiate those in the company who want to put it out and those who want to resist doing so for whatever reason, misplaced loyalty to GL or otherwise.

If they did that, they would have absolutely no reason NOT to use branching to view the theatrical cut. If anything, it’d kick up a mighty large shitstorm

There are far too many changes to make branching a viable option. They would need to give each version its own disc. Just yet another reason why they should actually do a complete restoration of the OOT.

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Fang Zei said:

There are far too many changes to make branching a viable option. They would need to give each version its own disc. Just yet another reason why they should actually do a complete restoration of the OOT.

Yeah, that’s why I said theatrical cut. At this point if they don’t go with a full restoration of the OOT but still want to release the “original” trilogy, I think they’d just fiddle with the OT footage so it’d fit in better with the SE footage, branch it, slap an “ORIGINAL THEATRICAL CUT” label on it, and call it a day.

What, a man builds a giant mound of dirt in his house and you aren’t entertained?

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as doubtful as i am that any of this would happen…

if there was ever a box set of the restored OOT and any other versions, i would very much like them to be on separate discs.

because who wouldn’t want to play them both at the same time?

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SwissArmyTin said:

Fang Zei said:

There are far too many changes to make branching a viable option. They would need to give each version its own disc. Just yet another reason why they should actually do a complete restoration of the OOT.

Yeah, that’s why I said theatrical cut. At this point if they don’t go with a full restoration of the OOT but still want to release the “original” trilogy, I think they’d just fiddle with the OT footage so it’d fit in better with the SE footage, branch it, slap an “ORIGINAL THEATRICAL CUT” label on it, and call it a day.

I guess I don’t know what you mean, other than Disney intentionally being misleading with / half-assing an OOT release, which I don’t see them doing.

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Fang Zei said:

Disney half-assing an OOT release

That, pretty much. They should either go big or go home, but if they decide to half-ass it, that’s how they’d probably do it.

What, a man builds a giant mound of dirt in his house and you aren’t entertained?