This won’t be a real 4K as we are not scanning from the original camera negatives.
Yep, and even then, it isn’t guaranteed that what has been originally shot back in the days reaches the spatial resolution equivalent.
Scanning at 2K would be borderline and we might miss some details[…]
Most probably exceeding the official Blu-ray release though which certainly doesn’t reach decent HD level (which is the whole point of the project besides the open matte aspect so to say of course). Guess they took some mediocre HD master which was good for the DVD release and reused that. However, at least they refrained from ruining it with orange & teal color grading, heavy DNR and other sins.
[…] and scanning 8K would be overkill and we just get a bigger image with not necessarily more details.
Definitely. 96kHz/24Bit vinyl rips are greeting as analogy.
It will definitely have more resolution (details) than HD (1080p), at least for the non SFX scenes.
If so, even better and more exciting.
On top of this, the grading should be closer to what you’d see in theatres (not that the Blu-ray grading was too much messed with) and we get to see it in open matte.
Great indeed. And I guess you intend to also refrain from any filtering, DNR, sharpening or other fuss, right?