zombie84 said:

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.

I didn't know Lucas every said anything about the "classic version" ever being available. It's awesome if he did. I always thought that he said the 2004 versions and beyond would be all that would ever be available and that the original versions were considered "unfinished workprints" in his opinion and that people could watch them on VHS and LD or whatever if they wanted to see them. I thought he also said it would be too expensive to remaster them properly.

What I could never figure out is why they would have to remaster all of the original versions. I thought they would only have to remaster the bits that were changed for the 1997 and 2004 versions since the remainder of the films will already be remastered. It boggles the mind how he thinks. The sad and crazy thing is that these Blu-Ray sets will break sales records no matter what. He could release them in B&W and in mono and people would complain, but they would still buy them.

Just my 2 cents.