"As I understand it, the idea is to do the best possible transfer of the laserdisc set, rather than try and recreate the original '77 release, in which case I guess they will be leaving it in??"

To begin with, yes. At this time, we'll have an excellent master to work with, and perhaps edit to resemble the original edit as closely as possible. I already have a recreation of the original crawl based on the one shone in the DVD documentary, and I believe we pretty much have all the original audio snippets like C3PO and so on.

Believe me, we've thrown around a lot of ideas about what can be done after the original transfer is made. We're just too focused on the current work to decide what will happen next, which makes sense, since this work has to be done first anyways.

[EDIT] Hell, maybe we'll make our own 3-D version!