To add to what crissrudd is saying, I feel like waiting another three years has other advantages for Lucasfilm aside from just the rights issue.
Some people are only just now getting around to buying the 2011 set. I honestly feel like we weren’t going to see a major reissue with actual new content until the time came to put the movies out on the next format. We’re only a year into 4k discs being a thing, and Star Wars has taken a long while to hit each new format.
To me, this is yet another sign pointing to 2020.
Mmm, this sounds awfully familiar. Before celebration the 40th anniversary was the most logical time for a release. Now that it doesn’t seem to pan out, things are pointing to 2020.
I don’t want to pessimistic, but from what we know from Mike Verta’s interactions with Disney, info from Disney’s restoration people, and Pablo Hidalgo, releasing the OOT is not a priority. So, there certainly seem to be no plans for a release in 2020, or otherwise. It appears to simply not be on the agenda, at all.
Hopefully, Mike Verta’s pitch has happened, and has set things in motion. However, I very much doubt Disney and Lucasfilm will have their own plans. There’s a new 4K restoration for ANH for sure, conformed to the SE. So, a new 4K mastered SE release may be pending, with some additional material, such as the Tarkin footage shown at celebration, but an OOT release seems unlikely, unless Mike Verta can convince them of the merits of his restoration.
I have not seen the original versions in almost seven years. There is no way in hell I am waiting another three years AT LEAST to see them again. I would take back everything bad I have said about TFA and RO if Disney releases the originals this year. Otherwise I can’t tolerate this carrot and stick approach any longer.
I’m not going to lie…like a year ago this post would have gotten me mad but now I revel in the fact that someone…anyone who hates the new K-Canon films admits that they have an irrational hatred of them that their opinion is not based on the quality of the movies themselves. Yeah, knowing this is a fact prematurely is nice but confirmation is better. Thank you.
Dislike of **** movies and hatred for them are different things. Regardless of what Disney does or doesn’t do with the OOT, some of us, maybe many of us, are still going to think their **** movies are **** and not any good. That doesn’t mean we would necessarily hate them, because in a vaccuum, there is no need to hate bad movies. They are merely bad.
The animosity comes from two things, however:
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Disney continues to stiff us on the OOT, while continuing to shill for their **** films that aren’t any good. Without a doubt, if they simply released the OOT, the criticism would die down. The Disney movies would no longer be movies that are standing in between us and the OOT, or movies they are offering us instead of the OOT–they would just be bad movies we no longer care about either way.
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The exception to that rule is when they start fucking with Star Wars. The original characters, the spirit of the original trilogy, that kind of stuff is not to be tainted with. Give us new characters, give us new stories that keep in spirit with the original. That’s all good. Just don’t fuck with the originals, which is even more egregious now, because they don’t even have a set story anymore. They are diverting the series from the archetypal to the episodic. It’s just a bunch of TV writers sitting around and coming up with the next idea out of their ass and passing it off to the next guy. At that point, it’s no longer a story with a meaningful message to tell, it’s just situational melodrama, meant to distract the bored.