How would you Remastered The OOT, If you had Lucas' Money and Power?

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    How would you Remastered The OOT, If you had Lucas' Money and Power?

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I would Remastered the OOT Only (not 97/06 SE)

I would keep Lucas away from the project, even if I had to do this:
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I would use the classic footage before the effects had been added. (this is something Lucas acts like he does not have, but he does because they had to have use the clean Visual Effects footage to restoration the Visual Effects for the 2006 SE DVDs.)

All footage (also Delete scenes) would be remastered in HD, Then the "DMR" (Digital Remastering) process that allowed conventional films to be upconverted into IMAX format.

I would hire Charles de Lauzirika (2007 Blade Runner DVDs) and Gary Kurtz to produce the project.

I would hire all the OOT Visual Effects artists that I took get to recreate all the Visual Effects and have all of the recreated Visual Effects filmed with IMAX cameras.

I would have John Williams recreate all OOT music and have it Recorded in HD Audio.

I would hire Paul Hirsch to edit all the Footage to recreate the Editing of the OOT. 

I would have Weta Digital (not ILM which sucks these days) do some Digital effect if they are needed. Mainly, want to keep the effect to Retro (old-School) Effects, but some lasers, star backgrounds and electric effects maybe better with some Digital Effect as long as they look like the classic effects.

I would keep the colors, look and feel of the film true to the time they were film in. Star Wars with 1970's earth tones in mind. ESB and ROTJ with 1980's muted tones in mind.

This would be a real restoration of the OOT (no new things) and all new footage would only be Shot-By-Shot recreating of Visual Effects from OOT film in IMAX and remastered in HD.

I would also have the Star Wars Holiday Special Remastered too.

I would have it release on Blu-Ray and DVD by IMAX DVD (not FOX DVD).

Whatever they did for Close Encounters, because that is now my gold standard for effects-heavy hit sci-fi movies from 1977 that were altered later on. 

Also I think one big thing is to have the New Light-saber blades  look and colors match the OOT.

I think it is O.K. to make Vader's Light-saber color Red and not OOT's Pinky-Red.

Luke and Obi-Wan's Blue Light-sabers needs to be OOT's light blue color and not PT's Royal Blue color.

Luke's Green Light-saber needs to look the same at in OOT and not like PT's Green Light-sabers.

The Shape of Light-saber's Blades need to be the same OOT shapes and not PT's Neon Tube look.

I'd take all the elements and scan them at 4K resolution and the effects at 8K. Hell, why not just the entire film and composite effects in 4K? Get rid of the garbage mattes, optically clean everything so there's grain which is true to the film stock used, scan the audio in a lossless format and other things. Save the 70mm magnetic track, 35mm stereo optical and such.

I'd do a Robert Harris type deal where I wouldn't remove film grain and disable all DNR and EE functions. Then I'd have a polyester 35mm print for DI archiving.

I wouldn't fuck around with anything. Just leave the movies as they are, just straight archiving and no bullshit. Got it? Good.

To Hell with 1080p films/videos. Film has FAR higher resolution compared to 2K.

DarkGryphon, if the keen audience members noticed the garbage mattes up on the big screen in the late 70's / early 80's, then they're supposed to show up, at least somewhat. I'm only pointing this out because you seem to contradict yourself when you then say it would just be a "straight archiving."

I totally agree on the 1080p comment. It's merely the latest way of distributing the movie on home video, just as dvd once was.

Well, I'd do the same thing that y'all have going on, but I'd do it for every version of every Star Wars film (pre- and post-ANH SW, pre-SE ESB and RotJ, 1997 OT, 2004 OT, pre-DVD PT, IMAX AotC, and DVD PT). Then I'd release it on a 15-disc BD set with every deleted scene totally cleaned up and finished, plus a bunch of extras that I'd leave up to the marketing department.

My SW Saga BluRay 1080i Boxset would go like this:

Disc 1:  Fully restored 1977 Version of Star Wars

Disc 2:  Fully restored 2008 Version of Star Wars with anymore SE changes Lucas has.

Disc 3:  Fully restored 1980 Version of Empire Strikes Back

Disk 4:  Fully restored 2008 Version of Empire Strikes Back with anymore SE changes Lucas has.

Disk 5:  Fully restored 1983 Version of Return of the Jedi

Disk 6:  Fully restored 2008 Version of Return of the Jedi with anymore SE changes Lucas has.

Disk 7:  Fully restored 1999 Version of The Phantom Menace

Disk 8:  Fully restored 2008 Version of The Phantom Menace with all deleted scenes inserted

Disk 9:  Fully restored 2002 Version of Attack of the Clones

Disk 10:  Fully restored 2008 Version of Attack of the Clones with all deleted scenes inserted

Disk 11:  Fully restored 2005 Version of Revenge of the Sith

Disk 12:  Fully restored 2008 Version of Revenge of the Sith with all deleted scenes inserted

Disk 13:  All OT Deleted Scenes, All Trailer/Teasers for all 6 movies, New Documentaries on each film.

Disk 14:  The Holiday Special (What the hell, it sucks, but its a bonus for anyone who is going to plop down probably about $150.00 for this boxset.) 

I'd go for a 5-disk Star Wars set, and then a 4-disk set of ESB and ROTJ, without any SE nonesense--save the SE stuff for the 6-film boxset, because the SE really is only relevant to the prequels.

Star Wars:

disk 1: Digitally restored version sourced from 8k scans of the O-neg (of course color-timed from the best surviving color source, the Technicolor masters). 1981 Crawl optional via seamless branching as a bonus. Audio options: original mono, stereo and a 5.1 mix from the 70mm.

disk 2: New 3-hour documentary just on the making of ANH.

disk 3: Featurettes and mini-documentaries on various topics, plus deleted scenes

disk 4: Archive: Vintage documentaries, interviews, trailers, commercials, etc

disk 5: The Lost Cut. A new 4K transfer of the black and white workprint cut, with commentary track by the editing team.

The set would come with a hardcover book of black and white photographs from the production, a reproduction of the lobby cards, a reproduction of the theatrical souvinir magazine, and a reproduction of a ticket to the premiere. A pared-down 2-disk set could be made for the average consumer.

The ESB/ROTJ sets would basically follow the same format but without the workprint disk. For the boxset I'd include a bonus disk with additional material and a remastered transfer of The Holiday Special.

With the Saga boxset, there would then be maybe additional documentary disks dealing with the 6-film series as a whole, and then each OT film would get an SE disk that would link up with the PT packaging (maybe in some kind of book-like design) with the latest incarnation of the SE, with the previous 2 versions available via seamless branching. A bonus disk would feature SE documentaries, including a feature-length one detailing the alteration of the saga starting in 1981, the origins of the anniversary theatrical re-release, the 1993-1995 restoration effort, the work that went into the 1997 SE, the media and fan reaction, and then the continued revision throughout 2004 and whenever the new one comes out. The prequels would all get new HD transfers from their digital masters, with selectable "bluescreen only" version on the BR release, and a 2-disk documentary set about the making of the trilogy.

The Fox Planet of the Apes Blu-ray set is going to cost more than 150, and it's only 5 discs. A Saga Star Wars set with 6-10 discs is going to cost...a lot. Sadly, if it had the original versions I'd pay it, even if there were no extras and nothing new at all. 

Baronlando said:

The Fox Planet of the Apes Blu-ray set is going to cost more than 150, and it's only 5 discs. A Saga Star Wars set with 6-10 discs is going to cost...a lot. Sadly, if it had the original versions I'd pay it, even if there were no extras and nothing new at all.

Yes, but to be fair they're also throwing in a big book. I would think any release of Star Wars on video would be streamlined enough to keep the price low enough for them to mass produce it like back in '04.

Anyway's, here's how I'd do it:

Disc 1: '99 version of TPM

Disc 2: Attack of the Clones (the cut that's on the dvd, which I believe is identical to the DLP version which, while it isn't the version I got around to seeing on the big screen, is one I'm perfectly willing to settle for)

Disc 3: Revenge of the Sith, whichever cut (I think in the case of both AOTC and ROTS the differences in the various cuts are so incredibly subtle that it honestly doesn't matter to me)

Disc 4: '77 version of Star Wars mastered from the interpositive

Disc 5: '80 version of Empire mastered from the interpositive

Disc 6: '83 version of Jedi mastered from the interpositive

zombie84 said:

I'd go for a 5-disk Star Wars set, and then a 4-disk set of ESB and ROTJ, without any SE nonesense--save the SE stuff for the 6-film boxset, because the SE really is only relevant to the prequels.

Star Wars:

disk 1: Digitally restored version sourced from 8k scans of the O-neg (of course color-timed from the best surviving color source, the Technicolor masters). 1981 Crawl optional via seamless branching as a bonus. Audio options: original mono, stereo and a 5.1 mix from the 70mm.

disk 2: New 3-hour documentary just on the making of ANH.

disk 3: Featurettes and mini-documentaries on various topics, plus deleted scenes

disk 4: Archive: Vintage documentaries, interviews, trailers, commercials, etc

disk 5: The Lost Cut. A new 4K transfer of the black and white workprint cut, with commentary track by the editing team.

The set would come with a hardcover book of black and white photographs from the production, a reproduction of the lobby cards, a reproduction of the theatrical souvinir magazine, and a reproduction of a ticket to the premiere. A pared-down 2-disk set could be made for the average consumer.

The ESB/ROTJ sets would basically follow the same format but without the workprint disk. For the boxset I'd include a bonus disk with additional material and a remastered transfer of The Holiday Special.

With the Saga boxset, there would then be maybe additional documentary disks dealing with the 6-film series as a whole, and then each OT film would get an SE disk that would link up with the PT packaging (maybe in some kind of book-like design) with the latest incarnation of the SE, with the previous 2 versions available via seamless branching. A bonus disk would feature SE documentaries, including a feature-length one detailing the alteration of the saga starting in 1981, the origins of the anniversary theatrical re-release, the 1993-1995 restoration effort, the work that went into the 1997 SE, the media and fan reaction, and then the continued revision throughout 2004 and whenever the new one comes out. The prequels would all get new HD transfers from their digital masters, with selectable "bluescreen only" version on the BR release, and a 2-disk documentary set about the making of the trilogy.

I really like the idea of having a "bluescreen only" version of prequels. I'd like to see what the movie looked like without any compositing.

I'd hire Robert Harris to go back to the original negatives or whatever the best usable prints are and restore the trilogy to exactly the way they were in 1977, 1980, and 1983.

Then I'd hand over the restored elements to someone who is passionate about the project and wouldn't release anything half assed to supervise the creation the Special Edition versions, staying as true as possible to the original intentions of the filmmakers and artists. Also keep some key members of the crew (art & set decorators, costume designers, cameramen, editors, sound designers) on hand for their opinions/approval. Lucas ultimately will have final approval, but whoever takes the job of supervising the project will have to be able to stand up to the guy and make Lucas realize when his ideas are stupid.

Then go all out on the DVD extras and give the movies as much love as they deserve.

What I want to see with the next Star Wars Release.

All Six movies having their own 6-disk set.
All Six movies Release on both Standard DVD and Blu-ray.
All Six films have the same treatment has listed below.
The Box Sets Package with thin plastic cases for each disks that sides into a box (Like the James Bond box set).  
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Plastic case: one
    Disc 1: George Lucas's Super-Duper "Really Special" Edition Final Version of his film.
    Disk 2: The Saga Version Bonus Material.
        These Bonus Materials covers George Lucas's Super-Duper "Really Special" Edition Final Version .
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Plastic case: Two
    Disc 3: Fully restored Original Theatrical Version.
    Digitally Remastered: All footage scanned in high definition from original camera negatives. extensive and comprehensive hi-definition digital cleanup and restoration job. Digital Lighting recreate OOT's Lighting for sharper and cleaner picture. (IMAX "DMR" Digital Remastering)
Original Unaltered Effect Cleaned: Cleaned up matte shots, and other minor touches such as tidying up effects and recomposed Effects. Digital Lighting recreate OOT's Lighting for sharper and cleaner picture. Original Unaltered Audio Digitally Remastered: extensive and comprehensive hi-definition digital cleanup and restoration job of the Original audio. 
Classic Sound Options: Mono, Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround.
Classic Viewing Options: 1.33:1 Fullscreen, 4:3 Widescreen, 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen.
Subtitles: English.
Audio Commentary: None.
    Disk 4: Vintage Bonus Material (Digitally Remastered).
        These Bonus Materials cover the Original Theatrical Version.
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Plastic case: Three    
    Disk 5: Delete Scenes.
    Digitally Remastered: All footage scanned in high definition from original camera negatives. extensive and comprehensive hi-definition digital cleanup and restoration job.
Options: Classic Version Delete Scenes,
     George Lucas's Super-Duper "Really Special" Edition Final Version Delete Scenes.
Disk 6: Specials:
          The Holiday Special (Digitally Remastered) for EP IV set.
          Ewoks Movie one (Digitally Remastered) for EP V set.
          Ewoks Movie two (Digitally Remastered) for EP VI set.
         
          Something made just for EP I set (like a CGI Movie or a Prequel Holiday Special).
          The Clone Wars CGI Movie (Digitally Remastered) for EP II set.
          Something made just for EP III set (like a CGI Movie set after EP III).
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