Neomic said:
towne32 said:
darklordoftech said:
timdiggerm said:
darklordoftech said:
moviefreakedmind said:
darklordoftech said:
If this article is anything to go by:
http://www.cinemablend.com/m/new/How-George-Lucas-Star-Wars-7-Ideas-Were-Used-By-Disney-69271.html
What?
If they don't care about Lucas's treatments, no way they're going to care about his special editions.
There's a huge difference between an unused script and a thing the public saw.
The OOT is also a thing that the public saw.
Yep. This news about the script treatment confirms what that Disney is more interested in making proper decisions than appeasing George's personal wishes. Unless there really are technical hurdles making it unrealistic, I don't see why they wouldn't go the route of Blade Runner and Close Encounters and release an 'ultimate' set with all versions.
The difference between Star Wars and Blade Runner is that there are three movies with the former. The Blade Runner set was originally pretty expensive, especially when you consider some of the special editions that were also released.
Now try that with three movies that have 3-5 versions of each. The seemless branching would be extremely complicated and result in horrible compression on Blu-ray or 4K. It would be a compression artifacts nightmare, because instead of there just being additional scenes or alternate footage, the entire movies are different from the way each were were color timed and mastered. So you would literally need 3-5 streams of the same 2 hour movie on each of the discs. Plus all of the audio tracks everyone wants?
Blade Runner had 5 cuts on three discs, and they were able to narrow it down because three of the cuts were derived from the same masters, making the branching on those versions much easier because instead of having simultaneous streams of the same movie, they just had the video portions that were necessary for each cut. Star Wars is different because every one of the new cuts of the movie are totally different masters with different colors, as I mentioned before.
So you would have, at most, two cuts of the same movie per disc, and even that would be pushing it for the compression of an action-packed two-hour flick. That means each cut of the movie would be on it's own disc, more than likely. That would result in like a 15-disc set for three movies.
Not happening. Ever.
The most you're gonna get is the OUT and whatever the new edition is, whether it's a recomp of the 2011 edition or a new 2015 edition.
I didn't want to get into proposing how it might be done in that post, as it seems to fall firmly into fantasy, given that the set might not ever exist. And I do agree that they would be unlikely to bother with '97 and '04.
But what I would imagine would be two discs for each OT movie. An UOT disc, where hopefully every effort would be made to have the color timing et al. appropriate for that release.
The second disc would be the SE. I don't know what color timing they would choose for that. But it's a decision they're likely making anyway if they're doing a 4K remaster. Seamless branching would allow for the (relatively) few changes between 2004 and 2011 (or 2015, god forbid), as 04 and 11 are from the same transfer, as far as I know. 1997 would of course be trickier. And out of the question if they wanted to represent its color timing accurately.
With all that said, what they do with the SE is pretty damn unimportant. :)