Secondly, the color is unbelievably accurate. Dr Dre himself has proclaimed them the best he’d ever seen and is even basing his next 4K77 color grade on them.
If we assume this is getting a theatrical and home media release in 2027, wouldn’t that make 4K77/80/83 pretty much irrelevant? I’m surprised they’d continue to work on them.
If we assume it’s released and is real, and if there’s no sort of issue that screws up the experience or makes it all a waste of time. So far these are big ifs… don’t count your mynocks before they hatch.
I mean, we obviously know these scans are real. Lucasfilm is obviously scanning and re-mastering all of the original film.
It’s even been confirmed by Bill Hunt at The Digital Bits with his sources at Lucasfilm.
What they’re going to do with the re-masters, we don’t know yet. But a 2027 theatrical and home media release seems likely.
Wouldn’t make much sense to do a re-master like this and do nothing with it.