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Post #789870

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CatBus
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More OUT Rerelease Rumors from John Landis!
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Date created
20-Sep-2015, 12:27 PM

moviefreakedmind said:

I don't think for one second that Disney would allow more changes to the trilogy due to the backlash it gets every time it happens. I could see Disney sweeping it under the rug, continuing to release the 2011 SEs, and then never mentioning the OOT ever again, but adding even more changes I just can't see them doing.

And then there's the mysterious Reliance Media project, which seems to be exactly that.  The 04/11 SE's are limited to 2K, so going back to the 97SE's, doing a 4K scan, and re-specializing is the only way to keep the SE fork alive at all for higher-res releases (and, given that complicated history, it won't be an exact match to the 2011SE even if that's their intended goal).  Now, Disney probably bought this project already contracted out and partly-completed, so they didn't technically decide to do it, but AFAIK nobody's killed it yet.  Corporate inertia is a force to be reckoned with.

Hey, I want it released as much as anyone, but "it just doesn't make sense not to" has been a valid argument since the mid-nineties and nothing's come of it yet--except, you know, rumors from "credible sources" every five months for the past twenty years.