Neomic said:
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 think there's a lot of hyperbole regarding how many discs that are required, a 15-disc set?
A Blade Runner-esque set could easily look like this:
Star Wars
Disc 1) Original Cut / '81 rerelease
Disc 2) '97 Special Edition
The Empire Strikes Back
Disc 1) 35mm Cut / 70mm Cut
Disc 2) '97 Special Edition
Return of the Jedi
Disc 1) Original Cut
Disc 2) '97 Special Edition