Star Wars (1977 Original Version) Theatrical Rerelease Discussion — Page 3

RM4747 said:

JadedSkywalker said:

Didn’t the Special Edition restoration take 2 years to do? These things do take time.

Yes, though it doesn’t take 5 years to restore 3 movies, especially not for a company with the resources of Disney.

From what’s leaked, apparently the scans at least started in 2022, though I’m not sure if all scans were done then.

There was apparently an original 6K Cintel scan. Then they went back at some point later and did Cinelab 6K scans and 8K scans of the VistaVision.

Not sure if those were also done in 2022, or later.

But all of the leaked clips have a 2025 copyright date on them, so I’m not sure what work was done between 2022-2025.

Again, a person with your limited information should not be answering questions like this. The cintel scans were done in 2012 or maybe a bit later (around 2015-ish), then the cinelabs were done very recently (perhaps even last year…), then there was a photochemical restoration, then it was scanned in at 8K, and no, not just of the vitavision…

RM4747 said:

JF_Sanderson said:

Rm4747 you are tilting at windmills. Editing your posts isn’t going to help give yourself a better image. What exactly are you fighting for??

Huh? No idea what any of this means.

I couldn’t care less about my “image” with a bunch of faceless, nameless nerds on a forum lol

Lucasfilm is going to do what they will, regardless of what anyone here does or says.

Again, a person with your limited information should not be answering questions like this. The cintel scans were done in 2012 or maybe a bit later (around 2015-ish) and was done by disney for catalouging reasons and is not used in this resotration anymore, then the cinelabs were done very recently (perhaps even last year…), then there was a photochemical restoration, then select shots were scanned in at 8K, and no, not just of the vitavision…

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:

Again, a person with your limited information should not be answering questions like this. The cintel scans were done in 2012 or maybe a bit later (around 2015-ish), then the cinelabs were done very recently (perhaps even last year…), then there was a photochemical restoration, then it was scanned in at 8K, and no, not just of the vitavision…

Hmm… that timeline doesn’t add up.

Lowry Digital did the 4K scans and restoration in 2011-2012 for the planned 3D theatrical release that never happened, and those scans were used for the current 4K releases in 2019-2020.

Why would they do a 6K scan immediately after they had just done a 4K scan?

Based on the leaked documents, all of the 4-perf 35mm was scanned at 6K, and the 8-perf VistaVision was scanned at 8K.

I have saved images of the documents lol you can’t gatekeep.

Again, that is an older leak, and we have received newer ones with updated information. The cintel was done for catalog reasons. And there have been further 8K scans of elements other than VistaVision. Again, you have limited incomplete information. Do you know about the Photochemical restoration? Of course you don’t…

I’m tired of listening to you. Quick question, who sent you to this forum to cause trouble? Because you don’t seem to understand that people can be more informed than you… Not to mention even newer scans done on the Laergraphics director that have surfaced.

I have saved images of the documents lol you can’t gatekeep.

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:

Again, that is an older leak, and we have received newer ones with updated information. The cintel was done for catalog reasons. And there have been further 8K scans of elements other than VistaVision. Again, you have limited incomplete information. Do you know about the Photochemical restoration? Of course you don’t…

I’m tired of listening to you. Quick question, who sent you to this forum to cause trouble? Because you don’t seem to understand that people can be more informed than you…

As I said earlier, no one believes you have any information without proof.

Put up or shut up.

You could easily post proof, but you don’t. For no reason other than wanting to feel special.

You can keep saying you’re more informed and you have insider knowledge, and keep claiming you have all of this proof that you can’t share (for unknown reasons) over and over and over again.

No one believes you. It’s becoming sad and desperate. Clinging to relevance.

Either post the proof, or stop talking about it.

The majority of people on this forum, besides you, believe me. And I have already told you why I haven’t released this, but you might have short-term memory, so I won’t bully you on that one, so I’ll repeat it again. (maybe write it down this time): The leaks I chose not to share on this thread have sensitive information.

Did you get that, or do I have to dumb it down for you? Maybe I need to draw it in crayon for you to understand it…

Why would I supply and allow all these leaks to be posted here, then lie about this?

Either way, this should shut you up and prove that there was in fact a new 8K scan and that it’s not just VistaVision shots as you wrongly stated:

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:
The majority of people on this forum, besides you, believe me. And I have already told you why I haven’t released this, but you might have short-term memory, so I won’t bully you on that one, so I’ll repeat it again. (maybe write it down this time): The leaks I chose not to share on this thread have sensitive information.

Did you get that, or do I have to dumb it down for you? Maybe I need to draw it in crayon for you to understand it…

Why would I supply and allow all these leaks to be posted here, then lie about this?

I’m sure they do, since 90% of them are already members of your group lol

This is a pretty niche site.

The gatekeeping is annoying to everyone else, and we don’t believe it without proof.

You could certainly post it while censoring employee information or names.

In any case, I’m not impressed by your “knowledge”.

I’ll wait until 2027 and see what they release, since apparently no one has any further information they’d like to share outside of their silly private groups.

Why Lucasfilm hasn’t shut down the ALI YouTube page by now is beyond me, has to be an employee leak at this point, especially if there’s been multiple YouTube channels.

I don’t give a flying shit if you’re impressed by me or not. The last person whose opinion I could care about is yours.

Also, does the timeline “sTiLl nOt AdD uP”?

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:

Either way, this should shut you up and prove that there was in fact a new 8K scan and that it’s not just VistaVision shots as you wrongly stated

I have no idea what that is.

That’s a heavily cropped image, and very well may have VistaVision VFX in it.

4-perf 35mm from 1977 doesn’t have 8K resolution anyway, and all of the leaked footage so far has mentioned 6K Cinelab scans.

The few clips I’ve seen that have mentioned 8K were VistaVision VFX shots.

So you’re purposely being dumb now? That’s the landspeeder shot I cropped to censor info, which you said was fine… It’s not a vistavision shot…

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:
Also, does the timeline “sTiLl nOt AdD uP”?

I’m confused, are you reading that incorrectly?

That says December 2023, not 2012.

Earlier, you said the 6K scans were done in 2012.

I said the cintels were done in 2012. At this point, you’re just lying…

So, where did I say the 6K scans were done in 2012? Where? I’m waiting…

Everything I said was true:
Cintels were done in 2013
Cinelabs in 2023
and then the 8K scans for select (not just VV) shots

What a joke.

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:
So, where did I say the 6K scans were done in 2012? Where? I’m waiting…

The Cintel scans were also 6K, just done earlier…

No, don’t change the subject. You’re referring to the Cinelabs because you said “they were done in Dec 2023.” So you made up that I said they were done in 2013. You lied to try to discredit me. But you failed.

RM4747 said:

JF_Sanderson said:

Rm4747 you are tilting at windmills. Editing your posts isn’t going to help give yourself a better image. What exactly are you fighting for??

Huh? No idea what any of this means.

Let’s try again.

Why are you posting a multitude of negative critiques with seemingly no goal in mind besides stirring shit? What are you trying to accomplish? Especially after you said there was “strong incel energy” on this forum and that you were “done”? But then edited your posts?

There is a thread for the leaks and a thread for the rerelease. Leave leak discussion in that thread and this one to celebrate.

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:
So, where did I say the 6K scans were done in 2012? Where? I’m waiting…

The Cintel scans were also 6K, just done earlier…

No, don’t change the subject. You’re referring to the Cinelabs because you said “they were done in Dec 2023.” So you made up that I said they were done in 2013. You lied to try to discredit me. But you failed.

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:
and then the 8K scans for select (not just VV) shots

Ok, so you’re just being pedantic?

Maybe they also did 8K scans of the grainy CRI VFX shots, no idea.

Either way, the majority of the scans were 6K.

Why they didn’t scan everything in 8K is beyond me, but…

“Now that I’ve been proven wrong, I’ll just say I had no idea the whole time”

The reason they scanned only some shots in 8K is to compensate for the resolution loss in those shots due to generational loss. Again, you would know this, but you don’t.

Don’t speak about stuff you don’t understand, buddy.

Sorry for clogging up the thread, rpvee.

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:
The reason they scanned only some shots in 8K is to compensate for the resolution loss in those shots due to generational loss. Again, you would know this, but you don’t.

Don’t speak about stuff you don’t understand, buddy.

Sorry for clogging up the thread, rpvee.

That was already reported by Bill Hunt.

Information which he got from the leaks, not from sources at Lucasfilm, btw.

Also, you said this:

“The notes mentioned that the VistaVision VFX shots are being scanned in 8K, all of the standard 35mm is being scanned in 6K.”

So what happened to that particular statement? You went from being completely certain to “I don’t know, I have no idea”

You went from saying “all of the standard 35mm is being scanned in 6K” to saying “Maybe they also did 8K scans of the grainy CRI VFX shots, no idea.” What a JOKE.

RM4747 said:

JF_Sanderson said:
There is a thread for the leaks and a thread for the rerelease. Leave leak discussion in that thread and this one to celebrate.

Report me, ban me, block me 😃

I can make new accounts here.

I have endless VPNs and IP addresses I could use to get around any bans.

Fairly simple for a website like this that seems to have been cobbled together with 2003 technology and security lol

Big man…