gizzy2000 said:
I hope they don't let Lucas "approve" anything. I think they'll just say that the current blu ray is the Lucas approved version. riddler, you said that Lucas was letting the negatives deteriorate intentionally, do you think that's why the blu rays weren't a real restoration? That had never occurred to me before.
darklordoftech said:
riddler95 said:
I wonder if Disney will ask George Lucas to come in and approve the HD Presentations when this major restoration is completed.
No way! That would be like asking for Nixon's approval before passing laws that weaken the executive branch.
Obviously the reason for why the films weren't given a new restoration for the 2011 Blu-Ray release was because George Lucas clearly felt that the 2004 HD (1080p) Masters were good enough of a source to be used to create the transfers. I remember reading in Summer of 2010 that George Lucas said the reason for why the Original Theatrical Unaltered Versions were not restored and included on the 2011 Blu-Ray release was because it was too expensive of a process to be performed.
When I said "I wonder if Disney will ask George Lucas to come in and approve the HD Presentations when this major restoration is completed." I meant that maybe they'd ask him to approve the HD Transfers to make sure the Picture & Sound Quality will be accurate. Directors & Producers are often brought in to approve newly created HD Presentations of their films. For example Steven Spielberg has approved the Blu-Ray transfers for several of his films, Ridley Scott supervised and approved the restoration for the Final Cut of Blade Runner, and heck Martin Scorsese was even brought in to oversee some parts of the restoration for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
I don't think George Lucas would even bother to approve the HD Transfers for the Original Theatrical Unaltered Versions. Because for starters they are not his preferred versions of the films and for so long he refused to restore them and release them in High Quality on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Shortly after the 2-Disc Limited Edition DVD Sets of The Star Wars Trilogy were released in September of 2006, I remember reading somewhere that the reason for why the Theatrical Cuts were presented on DVD in the Letterbox Format with Dolby 2.0 Surround Mixes was because George Lucas did not allow a restoration to be performed. So they were basically forced to create the transfers using the 1993 Video Masters created for The Definitive Collection Laserdisc Boxset.