⭐ Star Wars' 50th anniversary in 2027 ⭐ | Your hopes and expectations (if any)... — Page 2

I specifically avoided the Revenge reissue release because the ticket price was 20 dollars and standard laser DCP. On their smallest crap screen. At AMC. Meanwhile Sinners was on the Imax. If it was the Imax I would have paid as much as 25 dollars.

It wasn’t even in the Dolby cinema that was some other movie too.

Reminds me of when I wanted to see Dead Reckoning and both Imax screens were showing Barbie and Oppenheimer.

If this is not the original cut they can forget about it. 1981 release I probably would see just for the hell of it, but they aren’t doing that, Lucas and his vision and all that speak.

Even if I despise the title A New Hope.

To be 100% transparent the 2020 Maclunky cut from the official 4K home video release, Dead on Arrival. For me at least, although so many people will just go see it anyway. They don’t care it’s not the real deal. A lot of them like Lucas so called enhancements. And won’t mind seeing Han shoot second in 4K. or the awful Artoo behind cgi rocks. Of the three films it is the least ruined 4k release. It had a ton of DNR but not ruinous like Empire. And the Atmos mix is not bad. It’s not the actual movie, it’s a redone mix but for modern mixes it’s as tasteful as you can get.

TBH the only Star Wars I’m waiting and hoping to see is the 70mm Star Wars. Since Lucasfilm is not going to restore the oot for home viewing in any century without Lucas’s consent. He is more in tune and interested with his museum of narrative art and his charitable causes and god love him for that, but I want Star Wars. Not A New Hope.

George is never relenting, he is a known quantity. He never apologizes and he never forgives, he never comprises. And he always wins. He likes it that way, fans be damned. Unless suddenly the man has mellowed, and says give those Gen X haters of the prequels the originals. He is more likely to withhold them even more, due to his quote they throw rocks at me. They do fanedits of my movie, it’s my movie. I’m paraphrasing but he said similar things. He also said the original movie was crap because it was a laserdisc. That whopper was at Cannes.

Considering I’ve never had a chance to see Star Wars in theaters in general, I’d undoubtedly go to this regardless of cut. Obviously I’m hoping for the OUT, but I won’t hold my breath. We went through similar speculation for the 40th anniversary with absolutely nothing to show for it.

It’s definitely going to be the Disney+ one, unfortunately

Wazzles said:

Considering I’ve never had a chance to see Star Wars in theaters in general, I’d undoubtedly go to this regardless of cut. Obviously I’m hoping for the OUT, but I won’t hold my breath. We went through similar speculation for the 40th anniversary with absolutely nothing to show for it.

And the 30th and only got the Rinzler book and no film.

JadedSkywalker said:

Wazzles said:

Considering I’ve never had a chance to see Star Wars in theaters in general, I’d undoubtedly go to this regardless of cut. Obviously I’m hoping for the OUT, but I won’t hold my breath. We went through similar speculation for the 40th anniversary with absolutely nothing to show for it.

And the 30th and only got the Rinzler book and no film.

I was also 14 and too busy focusing on Halo 3 😁

30th in 2007: George wanted to hype up The Clone Wars.

40th in 2017: Right in the middle of the ST. Episode VIII had literally been penciled in for Memorial Day Weekend that year until RJ asked for more time to work on the script.

50th in 2027? I’ll just note, by that point the 2019/2020 transfers will have been out there for more than seven years, with the underlying 4k scan possibly dating back as far as 2012. Even if this is still George’s Preferred Version, I wouldn’t be shocked if it ends up being a brand new master they can show off in Imax.

I’m excited about this but I’m not holding my breath for a re-release of the original theatrical cut. I hope we get it but I won’t be surprised if we don’t

It’s got to be the Maclunkey version, especially after that Kathleen Kennedy speech about the BFI print being super rare and whatever. Even the name has been revised again! The sequel trilogy era convention of losing the numbered episode is still in effect.

Edit: the online press thing claiming this is a “once in a generation event” is weird too. Like, is it the 1977 version? If it’s not why is this such a special event? If it is are they going to put it into a vault for a few decades and not stream it until a new generation grows up? What are they talking about?

Mocata said:

It’s got to be the Maclunkey version, especially after that Kathleen Kennedy speech about the BFI print being super rare and whatever. Even the name has been revised again! The sequel trilogy era convention of losing the numbered episode is still in effect.

Edit: the online press thing claiming this is a “once in a generation event” is weird too. Like, is it the 1977 version? If it’s not why is this such a special event? If it is are they going to put it into a vault for a few decades and not stream it until a new generation grows up? What are they talking about?

There hasn’t been a wide theatrical release of the original movie - any version of it - since 1997.

So, in that very specific sense it’s a “once in a generation event.”

Referring to it as Star Wars: A New Hope could simply be to specify it’s the original since there’s been a million other things since then and simply calling it “Star Wars” might just confuse people at this point. Yeah, that’s all it was called for the first four years but we’ve had another 44 years of it being a franchise since then. That’s probably an overly optimistic read re: whether or not it’s the original version, though.

I can’t help wondering if they’re announcing it this far ahead of time so they can gauge everyone’s reactions and see just what it is people want.

This will undoubtedly be the 2019 ¤k release.