SilverWook said:
ThiefCobbler4ever said:
Mayhaps some people didn't hear what Lucas said:
"You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally," he said. "It's a very, very expensive process to do it."
So it's obvious he's willing to do a proper restoration on the OOT if he has enough money. So the OOT will come to Blu-Ray, the only question is "when"?.
A. Lucas is a billionaire.
B. The costs of a restoration should not be more than any other films of similar vintage. Not to mention some restoration was already carried out in the 90's in prep for the SE's.
C. Noted film historian Robert Harris has offered his services for a song.
D. Did I mention Lucas is a billionaire already? ;)
Yeah, this whole "restoration" thing is bullshit.
The films were restored in 1997. It was paid for by Fox, to the tune of $20 million dollars. The 1997 SE looked pretty fucking sweet in the theatre right? Lucasfilm doesn't have to do anything because Fox did almost all the work already.
Know what Lucasfilm has to do? They have to restore the missing 7-5% material (if it is necessary--not all shots needed work) to de-SE the film and the scan the pieces, and then colour time it. It would be about a day to pull the film from the archives and scan it, and another couple days to colour correct and make the master. For a full-out restored original version of the trilogy you have about two weeks of work, to the tune of a couple hundred grand. They could do digital restoration to top it off if they wanted, but this wasn't done in 1997 and that released looked good right?
So yeah. Figure out what percentage of the films the SE footage represents. I'd say about 7% for ANH, and about 5% for ROTJ. Thats what they have to actually restore; 5% of a movie. And thats only if every frame of that film pieces need it. In reality half of it would probably be fine, so you are looking at repairing 2% of a movie. "Oh poor me, I can't find any money to spare in my 3.5 billion in assets. Get that Clone War sticker book in production!"