alex s said:
They know fans have copies of all of this stuff, but they don't really bother with that because they know it's low quality. I learned that. Damn near crapped my pants too. They overlook the individuals. They also know about this board and what it's for. Note we stopped making updates, posting clips and the such. And still haven't since.
If some people (no names) hadn't been so blatantly open about it and posted clips in their anxiousness, after they were told to keep it on the dl, it would have been ok and gone under the radar and not ruined it for everybody. And now here we are back at that point A. We were going to present it to the studio in hopes of getting an official release, but now we can't even do that.
We were trying to stay low key about it for a while, but then tada. It's all back to point wait.
You guys are really overestimating how "low quality" it is. It's really not. And studios don't care about the quality of what's out there. They just care that it IS out there. And somehow I don't think they care too much about the TV version of a film that's been around for a very, very long time.
TBH, I'm not too worried about it. Someone will easily be able to do what you did and better. The hardest part is getting a hold of a print. Once they do, they'll just scan it in HD and release that which, AFAIK, you guys were never intending to do. Very, very easy and will render all this back-and-forth BS moot.
Until then, I'm happy with the version that WAS released, regardless of whether anyone in "your camp" intended it to be out there.