darklordoftech said:

Fang Zei said:

darklordoftech said:

Handman said:

darklordoftech said:

Considering that The Force Awakens was filmed on 35mm, will they use 35mm sources instead of digital scans for future releases, both OOT and SE?

But... wouldn't they have to make a digital scan of that to release it?

The TPM DVD didn't use a digital scan.

I think you're a little confused...

Since I didn't speculate either way, "Curious" would probably be more accurate than "confused".

My mistake, but just to clarify, AotC and RotS were finished as DI's from the get-go. This might actually explain why AotC's color-timing looks weird on blu-ray now. 2002 was still the very early days of this technology and whatever they were using back then might not have translated well to the standards of 2011. I have a similar theory about Fellowship of the Ring's extended blu-ray.

TPM was technically finished on film back in '99, but ILM still had almost all of the digital filmout tapes of the vfx shots in readable condition in 2011 so they used those to reconstruct the movie for the blu-ray and the 3D conversion. This got the movie as close to its "true" original negative as possible.

Almost all new movies are finished as DI's now, regardless of how they were shot. TFA will likely be finished at 2k with the exception of the Imax shots which will be finished at a higher resolution.