The bit about the sources is suspect for me. But then again anything regarding the OT gets taken by me with many grains of salt.

Here's hoping, but in the meantime no blue milk is being spilled.

SilverWook said:

Coppola did have the Apocalypse Now neg cut to make Redux though?

I don't think so, but he then had the new prints made with a digital soundtrack and printed in Tech IB's limited revival. Then for all successive video masters, one was generated from this 2001 project and for seamless branching merely conformed to the 1979 original cut.

I don't mind the 2001 process, but I do mind the subsequent ignoring of the original film that is a masterpiece both with it's original look, feel and innovative split surround Dolby mix.

And also, I find it interesting about the reports of OOT prints still being circulated in 1993 or so and then being pulled, with the same people complaining of the SE prints being very contrasty and disappointing in comparison to the prints that had still been in circulation a few years prior.

I still don't believe the "originals are destroyed" mantra, and if worse came to worse the materials prepared for the SE would have been the best available elements in 1995 or so, and be the most suitable for a new presentation of the OOT.