Fang Zei said:
We’ve got three years to continue making noise. Lucasfilm isn’t gonna say a word on the subject until then. Reed’s tweet is certainly a nice start, although it’d be even better if someone working for Lucasfilm itself would speak up.
You’re right; we’re going to have to wait out 2020 at the absolute earliest. I think that’s just just kind of the brutal fact of it.
Johnson slammed the SE in 2011, years before he was hired, but Abrams did at least let it slip in a 2015 interview that he’d shown his kids “the original versions” specifically. I’d certainly love to know what Edwards and Ron Howard’s thoughts on the subject are.
It’s just damn frustrating when The Force Awakens is a veritable remake of a movie that we can’t officially watch on its original format.