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David Fincher’s recent remaster of Seven was done at 8k.
Ang Lee’s last two films were shot and completed in 120p 3D.
James Cameron decided to shoot the Avatar sequels in 48p 3D and motion grade to 24p depending on the shot. Like I said, he applied the motion grading tech to certain scenes in Titanic and the first Avatar so they’d look smoother when projected in high framerate.
Cameron even let Park Road Post use their AI on the existing 4k master of Titanic from 2012, presumably just to see how much detail it could bring out. The 4k remaster of The Abyss used their tech as well. They also (rather shamefully imo) took the existing 2k masters of Aliens, True Lies, and the original Terminator and ran them through the AI to upscale them to 4k instead of at the very least using a fresh 4k scan of the negatives like they did with The Abyss. The original Avatar is effectively stuck at 2k simply by virtue of how it was made and the 4k is an AI-upscale as well.
So yeah, precedent exists for all of this but not a combination of all three like this random rumor claims. There’s no mention of 3D, but c’mon, The OT are now the only Star Wars films not converted into 3D. I can’t imagine a 120p master being created without 3D factoring into it somehow.
I’m also leaning towards them having heard the term “8k,” which was mentioned in the alleged leaked document Eck showed a little clip of, and conflating that with 120p and AI and somehow thinking they were talking about the unaltered versions when, ahem, such a process would make them no longer the original versions anyway.
But future-proofing the SE and maybe the entire saga? That I could see as a possibility, although I don’t think I want to know what the finished in 2k PT looks like upscaled to 8k.