Originally posted by: THX

from Lynne Hale, Lucasfilm Publicity
We want you to be aware that we have no plans – now or in the future – to restore the earlier versions.

That's pretty unequivocal.

True, but my counter to that is:

1. LFL is a big company, and one hand typically does not know what the other is doing.

2. We have heard COUNTLESS times that we would never see the OUT again, yet here it is.

3. What exactly constitutes a restoration? Does simply making it anamorphic count, or releasing it on the next medium, or... count? Maybe he is simply saying that there are no tenative plans to clean it up and remove garbage mattes, clean up the picture, fix the special effects that are off, etc.?

I woudn't take anything said from anyone at that company as gospel...