I’m going to assume any DCP’s are still HD Branch. The use of it for the TROS teaser makes me wonder if Disney can tell the difference.
They only used that for the D23 preview, which only went up online AFAIK and was never sent out to theaters.
It definitely went out to theaters. It played before my IMAX screening of Ad Astra.
That’s curious.
Did it have an MPAA card at the front? Are you sure it wasn’t just part of the ads before the actual trailers?
Even if I’m wrong and that trailer got sent out as an actual trailer, I’d still chalk the use of the old master up to the fact that this was still prior to the launch of D+, for which we can now clearly see they were saving the new master. Since the 2004/2011 was already sitting on the shelf the trailer people just sourced it from that.
Even if they knew the newer master was pretty much finished and about to make its debut, we forget that the first trailer for RotS that went out to theaters back in late ‘04 used footage from the Lowry master. If it’s good enough to get printed to 35mm, it’s good enough for a trailer today in 2019.