Erikstormtrooper said:

xhonzi said:

If the 1977-1983 versions were released, but without all of the sound tracks and with digital recomposits...

How many of you would still be signing petitions and crying foul? I know it's not what you'd prefer. But would you still fight the good (?) fight?

The soundtracks don't really matter to me as much as the visual. We already have the majority of the soundtracks anyway, albeit in less than ideal quality.

But I think it would be weird for Lucasfilm to release a recomposited version of the originals. That would require effort and would make the OOT much more pleasing to the average viewer, which goes against everything Lucas has been doing since the late 90s.

It's much more likely they'd do a straight transfer from a print and just dump it on the disc. Which is all we would really need to do our own OT.com magic.

If Star Wars was destroyed by time and no good copies exist anymore, then where did they get a source for the gout, and how did they print up those 70mm film cels ? I have been asking this for years.

That along with Lucas statement on the anatomy of a dewback video part 2 make me call bullshit on the official story. Altered and conformed negative for the 1997 special edition absolutely, no source for the originals, absolutely false. Seperation masters exist. It would be a generation less than the original negative but more than good enough to splice in from a scan with the oneg for the rest of the footage.

The problem that the o-neg represents is it is the raw camera footage no color timing exists on it. So in 1997 they had to do a new color pass, and again in 2004.