doubleofive said:

Papercut said:

Wow, just image what ILM could do if they really wanted to?
They wouldn't have to do anything. NO ONE would have to do anything but scan the film and make sure it wasn't damaged. If ILM had to recreate all of the original effects, they'd end up making another SE, as recreating the effects was the original plan until George saw Jurassic Park.

Well, things likely also depend on just how far back they go with their film elements, would they be transferring from negatives with optical effects already composited, or would they have to separately scan then arrange the live action film with the effects footage? It'd look good being put back together from scratch (with every layer of the final image cleaned/corrected individually), and possibly end up reasonably close to how it was in the original, but likely they would introduce some sensible "improvements", as they did in ESB where they made snowspeeder cockpits no longer see-through (and more often likely introducing many unintended differences). It kind of comes down to what there is left to work with and what specific film elements it was that Lucas claimed to have "destroyed" when he made the SE (if he wasn't lying about that, as well).