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Post #462263

Author
Fang Zei
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The future of Lucasfilm
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Date created
10-Jan-2011, 8:28 AM

With each passing year it's not so much a question to me of "if" so much as "when" the OOT will be restored and remastered. What I would absolutely love to see is this:

Let's assume TPM-3D does well at the box office. I would love for the Blu-ray 3D release to be an all-inclusive ultimate edition, complete with the theatrical cut (yeah, getting my hopes up on that), and the same goes for AOTC in 2013 and ROTS in 2014. When ANH hits, LFL should at the very least make the blu-ray a two-disc set that includes the theatrical version, same goes for Empire in 2016 and Jedi in 2017. I think it just needs to be made clear to Lucasfilm that we'll pay a premium to see the OOT restored.

Any number of things is possible. Maybe they'll re-release the bd's of the six films individually at some point in the next couple years and include the remastered OOT then.

What's hard to imagine happening is an OOT release that doesn't force us to buy the newer version also. Even more unlikely would be the ultimate scenario of George licensing Criterion to do it (which would be awesome, don't get me wrong, but at the same time kinda inappropriate since these are some of the highest grossing films of all time and not the kinda stuff that's up Criterion's alley).

I recently heard that George made ninety-some-odd-million dollars last year. It seems a tad ridiculous to me that he can't spare a tiny fraction of that to restore a piece of film history he himself helped create.