Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
What is going to happen is the same thing that happened with Abel Gance's silent epic, Napoleon. Gance continued tinkering with the film into the 1960s, changing the score and reediting. By the 1980s, a restoration had to be mounted to find the original film, because Gance kept going back to the ONeg, striking new prints, and cutting as he saw fit.
We can hope that GL struck new prints after the color correction and pre-digital effects restoration work was done, but I'm somewhat cynical about that.
What is going to happen is the same thing that happened with Abel Gance's silent epic, Napoleon. Gance continued tinkering with the film into the 1960s, changing the score and reediting. By the 1980s, a restoration had to be mounted to find the original film, because Gance kept going back to the ONeg, striking new prints, and cutting as he saw fit.
We can hope that GL struck new prints after the color correction and pre-digital effects restoration work was done, but I'm somewhat cynical about that.
I would have to believe that Lucas and other filmmakers are smarter than that now, especially with the recent resurrection of preserving films. I remember reading after all the color correction, etc, he struck new prints and placed them in the vault (i couldn't tell you what the source was, it's been so long).