A project like that would require millions of dollars and months of work, involving dozens of people. I don't believe this would remain quiet for very long. Plus Lucas a couple months ago at Celebration said that they only restored the SE and that the "classic version" would have to wait until some time in the future. So, maybe Harris is just in the last months starting to do (preliminary?) work on it and has inspected the materials and devised a plan. But come on, more likely he just has heard from various people who restored and worked on the SE restoration materials since he is one of the top film restorationists in the world. Let's not jump the gun.