Disney spending 4 Billion on something isn't the same as any other company spending 4 billion on something. They don't always get everything. They just spend. When they bought several things from Saban including Power Rangers they were held to the terms of a contract with TOEI which gave TOEI some control over the Power Rangers show. Disney still spent Billions to Saban for his stuff but they didn't get complete control over the stuff. Disney's not free from previous contracts or oversights. Another example is that the "abc family" channel is only named that because Disney couldn't remove the "family" part of name without loosing the rights to air certain shows.moviefreakedmind said:
From my understand Disney made sure to get everything when they bought Lucasfilm. I doubt Disney would pay him 4 billion dollars and not get the original film material for the existing movies.
What really matters is what was Disney's focus when making the deal. If they weren't focused on making sure they could release the original versions and instead on what new projects they could make. Then the ownership of the original film elements would've been a secondary concern to them. Yeah sure they might've thought about it but if they figured they could make substantial profit in spite of the originals restoration status that's what they would've been certain to secure. The rights and opportunities to make lots of profit from new material made in the Star Wars universe. Unless the people at Disney are and were as into wanting the originals released as any Star Wars fan that does there's no certainty that they'd release the originals just based off of Billions. There's no certainty that they even care to try to restore the originals. We can just hope that if they do it's actually something of quality and not another disappointment that laserdisc master DVD release was.
