zombie84 said:
-2012: George Lucas is worth something like $4 Billion dollars. "It's too expensive to restore them! How would I earn a profit"
Reminder: the above figures add up to about something like the equivalent of... nearly $3 Billion dollars? Something in that range. A movie that has sold $3 billion worth of sales, in todays dollars. Yeah, there's no money there. It would be such a wasteful investment.
It's never been about money. That has always been one of George's flimsy excuses. The unavailability of the original versions is, was and always will be about George's ego.
Supposedly, Robert Harris offered to restore the film FOR FREE and still he was turned down. If George will not allow a restoration to go forward even if it doesn't cost him a dime, then it's clear that it's not about the costs at all. If someone offered to pay him $100 million if he would restore it, he would still refuse.