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captainsolo
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Disney Acquires LucasFilm for $4.05 billion, Episode 7 in 2015, 8 and 9 to Follow, New Film Every 2-3 Years
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30-Oct-2012, 6:28 PM

It would likely be a cooperative effort, because LFL owned the materials and Fox was the rightful distributor. The trick is convincing someone to put the $ in. That has always been the issue, and the only real hope besides convincing a company bigwig was to convince a lesser project to be funded, such as a Criterion one-off using best available print materials.

In an industry that has let a Hitchcock masterpiece (The 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much) fall into absolute disrepair due to simple negligence over a period of 28 years, there is virtually no hope of an OOT restoration.