If they really respected Lucas, they would’ve considered his ideas for the new films🤔
Exactly.
Either Pablo doesn’t know what he’s talking about, or Lucas made sure there was a stipulation in the Disney contracts that they weren’t allowed to alter the OT or the PT.
From a business perspective it makes sense that Disney would only really care about the creation of new media, and George was always careful about maintaining final cut on his films.
I dunno, I get the feeling that the film I is still very much a club. It’s all about who you know, and you don’t piss people off for no reason. At least not until they fall out of favor with the club.
If George was that adamant about nobody seeing the original versions, then the 2006 DVDs and subsequent reissues of said discs wouldn’t have existed
There was a GOUT reissue?
Where were you in '77?
There was a GOUT reissue?
There was the 2008 trilogy box set.
I must have missed that.
Where were you in '77?
There was a GOUT reissue?
There was the 2008 trilogy box set.
Was the GOUT included?
https://youtu.be/7e45um0jmjY
https://youtu.be/TVLPmOxxxg8
https://youtu.be/BgLEP76PHoo
This guy seems to know what he’s talking about.
A friend of mine just got me that 2008 set from Britain for £10 - the GOUT is definitely included.
I remember seeing those sets in stores and remember vividly the packaging mentioning the original versions. Even in that first video it shows that 4-6 still have the artwork that accompanied the GOUT release and the disc art is also the same.
George supposedly crunched the numbers on what it would cost to restore both versions when he was preparing for the DVDs, but Fox pushed him hard enough that he decided to rush out a cheap transfer of only the SEs (hence the Lowry project). That’s coming from the Steve Hoffman Forums guy that worked on it. That may just be his way of explaining why the work was so subpar, but sounds legitimate since George was so adamant about waiting until 2006 to release Star Wars on DVD at all.
Actually the Original Trilogy was released on DVD in 2004. Which I have to say is the first time I had watched the Original Trilogy since VHS/TV in the 80’s. I remember being shocked when Luke said “Clone Wars”.
He was saying George wanted to wait until 2006 but fox forced him to do it in 2004.
If what MFM says it’s true, what Pablo said is much more confusing.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
What I said comes from a guy that worked with George on the DVDs, so it’s probably more or less true. The only problem might be that he just uses that as an excuse to justify the shoddy quality of the 2004 DVDs, so he may be playing it up a little bit as an excuse. Who knows? George did say in 2010-2011 that the reason he only released the SEs on blu ray was because of money, but that also may have just been to get people off his back.
The Person in Question
This is torturous.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
This is torturous.
Where were you in '77?
If the pattern is to be followed, we’re due for another Star Wars box set this 2018. Since 1990, every 7 years a new Star Wars box set gets released. Make my day Disney
This is torturous.
Exactly what I hoped that would be before I clicked on it.
This is torturous.
Dun-Dun-DUN!
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
This is torturous.
I think you mean ‘This is madness’ 😉
Seeing that news about the Disney-Fox deal is supposed to be revealed today when TLJ also releases, I’m thinking (and fervently hoping) this bodes well for 4K OUT prospects. It’s to much of a coincidence for it to not mean something significant for SW.
.Val
Not according to Pablo Hidalgo on Twitter 😦.
He makes it seem like it really is George holding it back, which I never thought was the case. I wonder if it’s an actual legal stipulation or if it’s just LFL trying to honor his wishes.
You’d think after spending $60 billion, they really wouldn’t give a damn what Lucas thought.
That’s an investment towards their streaming empire, though - in the grand scheme of things not a lot to do with Star Wars. And they already have a ‘Star Wars’ (or ANH) to put on that platform.
But yeah, whenever a colossal, multinational corporation says they’re doing something because they respect someone’s wishes - they’re not telling you the truth. It’s either they won’t do it, because - for whatever reason - they don’t see the benefit, or because they are prohibited do it, and can’t circumvent this in any way. Yet.
This is torturous.
Such a great film! I was hoping for that, but didn’t really think it would be!
This is torturous.
Exactly what I hoped that would be before I clicked on it.
Ha! 😄
ive just started a petition:
https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-the-release-of-the-unaltered-cut-of-star-wars-in-4k/share_for_starters?fromManage=true&utm_source=petition_manage
Please sign
Good luck JMOW.
Good luck JMO.
Will you sign?
Good luck JMO.
Will you sign?
If you admit you’re JMOW.