Here’s the “rumour”
Because now the well-known “Star Wars” YouTuber EckhartsLadder reports that documents have been leaked to him by a source that prove that Lucasfilm is working on a restoration of the original theatrical versions of all three titles of the original trilogy. He assumes that the plan is to make these available on Disney+ as an extra in the future.
So, I have a fairly big, genuine bit of Star Wars news to leak.
In short: Lucasfilm is in the process of restoring the Star Wars Original Trilogy for public release. Probably on D+.
And there is proof.
I’ll explain as much as I can, though there are limits to what I can share. pic.twitter.com/09sXXaiqcY
— EckhartsLadder (@EckhartsLadder) July 8, 2025
Yup, zero actual evidence, although I did track down a reddit thread where the person who first brought it to Eck’s attention breaks down beat by beat exactly how they found out about it.
Considering the amount of detail they go into, it sounds like the kind of thing you just couldn’t make up if you tried. So yeah, it certainly seems like it could finally be legit this time. Obviously there’s no point in getting our hopes up until it’s actually happening, and even then it’ll be up to us to judge the final results.