⭐ Star Wars' 50th anniversary in 2027 ⭐ | Your hopes and expectations (if any)... — Page 17

That guy with no name said:

Why would that be expected? That would be a vast and herculean effort. Finding, recovering, transferring, and then re-rendering 30-year-old CGI renders? Not to mention, they would have to re-scan other pieces of film missing from the theatrical cuts. To give a little away (and I won’t go any further), the '97 film out inserts were not scanned for this. In fact, if the documents are to be believed (which, btw, is not a 100% sure thing), then those pieces of film are no longer part of the negatives…

The versions would have noticeably different color grading and resolution.

I’m pretty sure most of the CGI isn’t from 1997, they re-did it several times, in 2004 for the DVDs, then again in 2011 for the Blu-Ray, and only a few minor tweaks in 2019 for the 4K version.

But yes, I agree with the reasoning that “Those are George’s versions and we aren’t going to touch them.”

Kathleen Kennedy has pretty much said that in interviews also.

That guy with no name said:

You got it!

So… is it option 1 or 2? lol

That guy with no name said:

That we don’t know… There is evidence to support both options.

Well, (if you believe him) Bill Hunt is apparently being told that something in fact will be released in 2027, which suggests option 2.

Broom Kid said:

Nobody tell this dude anything tell he pays you five bucks

Must be depressing being a jaded, angry old Baby Boomer.

Tobar said:

RM4747 said:

Broom Kid said:

Nobody tell this dude anything tell he pays you five bucks

Must be depressing being a jaded, angry old Baby Boomer.

I recommend you take another look at our rules. Specifically:

Don’t attack other members personally. When debating, argue the point, not the person. Respectful criticisms of debate style (logical fallacies) are acceptable.

This is your first and last warning.

So his harassing me and insults are totally fine? lmao

Broom Kid said:

So what I’m reading is, you paid him to find out behind the scenes info.

He doesn’t know anything more than what you could have got here for free months ago. So what you paid for was embellishment and bad conjecture - and about four separate reminders that he’s got “contacts.” I’m not mad you posted it here. I’m not mad, period. I thought it was a good opportunity to point out what he was actually doing. Think of it as an object lesson in media literacy

Nobody is forcing you to keep vouching for and defending that position. You don’t have to keep doing so, and by doing so, force yourself into making contradictory statements with every quote. You’re just choosing to do it.

None of this is hostile. I can see why it’d be frustrating to someone who wants to keep doing something despite it not going the way they’d like, but that frustration is also a choice.

I don’t have a dog in this fight but you do sound really mad. Also please never use the phrase “media literacy” ever again.

RM4747 said:

Broom Kid said:

Nobody tell this dude anything tell he pays you five bucks

Must be depressing being a jaded, angry old Baby Boomer.

Attack the post - not the poster.

RM4747 said:

Clearly not, because the color grading on all previous home media releases has been way off.

First of all, if those releases look bad it’s because they didn’t use color references, not because they didn’t have
any, the 2004 release looks awful because George was out of his mind, and the 19SE looks like that because they brought in the colorist from The Mandalorian to grade the trilogy according to the saga’s new style: dark, dry, monochromatic, and cold, unfortunately, and using a base from the canceled 2012-14 3D release, from which they abused DNR, removing details in many places and making many shots look blurry. But they must have color references.

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.

So what? Even if the separation masters come from an unaltered OCN that hasn’t undergone color grading, they’re still a better color sample than any other material. While they may not have the colors George envisioned in 1977, they still provide proof of how it looked on the OCN before degradation. And nobody’s stopping them from using these masters as a great reference for this new restoration. Even if they don’t have George’s personal Technicolor copy with the graded colors seen in theaters, the 1997 SE master also works, because this master used the private copy as a color reference. And many on this forum can attest that Star Wars has never looked like Star Wars since that premiere way back in 1997.

Do we have any info on how much work they plan to put into restoring the deleted scenes? Obviously there’s a few clips that indicate that they’ve done work on some of these, but could they be creating high quality versions of all of the known cut scenes? (And even some other unseen things, judging by the vimeo clips 🤔)

Confirmed at last!!!

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-50th-anniversary-theatrical-release

“Part of Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, a newly restored version of the classic Star Wars (1977) theatrical release — later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope — will play in theaters for a limited time.“

From StarWars.com :

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-50th-anniversary-theatrical-release

rpvee said:

Confirmed at last!!!

“Part of Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, a newly restored version of the classic Star Wars (1977) theatrical release — later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope — will play in theaters for a limited time.“

YESSSSSSS!

OK but seriously, its great to have it finally confirmed. Needless to say, I’ll be making sure I don’t miss this.

(Also, what are the odds that this is only for cinemas, seems like a stupid not to release these on physical later?)

Broom Kid said:

It’ll come to streaming & UHD.

That would indeed be nice.

digitalfreaknyc said:

RM4747 said:

Broom Kid said:

Nobody tell this dude anything tell he pays you five bucks

Must be depressing being a jaded, angry old Baby Boomer.

Attack the post - not the poster.

Tell that to him. I’m being attacked for sharing Bill Hunt’s post for some reason, and mocked and insulted for giving him $5.

You guys need to get outside more often.