I don’t mean to be crude, but it sounds like good, bad, or indifferent, we won’t get them while Lucas is still alive.
So the date Star Wars fans are waiting for is the copyright expiration date – when someone other than Disney can release the films as they ought to be. If I thought there was any chance at all this would happen in my lifetime, I’d never have become involved in Star Wars preservation.
I’d bet money humanity will be extinct before Disney lets a single copyright they own expire. They have the money and the power to lobby congress for extensions indefinitely.
inhales deeply
Smell that? That’s the system hard at work my brother.