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.
IF this project is real… and actually sees the light of day… it does indeed look like it’ll be the ‘closest to the theatrical’ colour-wise since the early/mid-1990s analogue releases. The quality so far, as discussed elsewhere online, seems second to none, (from the OCN).
It’d certainly be a far cry from the underwhelming substandard 2004SE, 2011SE, and 2019SE releases… that lacked the care and attention (+ QC) such releases deserved.
Agreed, yeah, I doubt that Disney will give us the theatrical versions of the trilogy. They never care about our opinion or Georges opinion, cough the sequel trilogy cough. Although they may have a private screening of the theatrical versions, if they release it to the public, it’ll probably by the same quality, if not worse, than the GOUT DVDs. Besides, Disney ruins everything so I’d rather watch Harmy’s Despecializeds and 4K77-83 and burn them onto a BD-R. Plus, you can just download Nearsighted Scrappile’s Custom BD-50 ISO’s files of the 4K77-4K83 trilogy. Although if Disney does confirm does at least its nice to know they’re thinking about it. I don’t know.
Really?
