I’m honestly not that interested in the behind the scenes work lol, all of the interesting technical details have already been leaked.
Ahh. Yes. I’m sure everything leaked. Must have all leaked. Sure of it.
I’m not interested. We just want to be able to buy the movies lol
I’m honestly not that interested in the behind the scenes work lol,
You pay Bill Hunt a monthly fee to spoon soft-serve-bullshit into your eyes.
I don’t. I paid $5 for one month because I saw that he posted about Star Wars and was curious what he was hearing.
People are really hostile here for no reason. No moderators here?
All I did was copy and paste what he said. Don’t shoot the messenger if you hate the guy.
Maybe he’s wrong, maybe he’s not. I have no idea. We’ll all find out in 2027. All I did was share what he said.
Because let’s think about it, Disney must have a very complete record of how the films looked.
Clearly not, because the color grading on all previous home media releases has been way off.
George’s private copy.
If it’s his personal copy, pretty unlikely Disney would have access to that.
Especially for a re-master of the theatrical version, which he hates and doesn’t want released lol
Even in his interview at Cannes last year, he still ranted against people who want the original versions. He was asked directly if they have plans to release them in HD or 4K, and his answer was “Well we put them on DVD but everyone said they looked terrible and didn’t want them!”
Although he’s a bad person to ask, since he sold the company, retired, and no longer has any control over the films. I seriously doubt if he’s even aware they’re being restored right now. It certainly didn’t sound like it in 2024.
Or perhaps they don’t have to go that far; they could use the separation masters or the YCM masters and scan them as a reference file.
The separation masters are generally made from the raw negative, so those wouldn’t be color graded. Only the interpositive and later is color graded.
But they don’t depend on collectors who own rare copies for million-dollar projects because they already have all the material that we here would sell our souls to own.
IB Technicolor prints are very rare, and unique because the colors don’t fade at all. And they weren’t really used in the US at all for Star Wars, they were pretty much only made for some European markets.
The regular Eastman negative film that Lucasfilm has is extremely faded and color shifted.
I didn’t see any mention in the leaked documents that Lucasfilm has an IB Technicolor print in their vault.
The BFI’s copy would be extremely useful to them for color accuracy, assuming they didn’t already have one.