CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:
We know for a fact that the Library of Congress made scans at Disney’s request (assuming moviefreakmind is honest). For what other purpose than an OUT reconstruction would a faded, 40-year old print be useful?
The information on the Library of Congress comes from the user “Vidiot” who worked with George Lucas on previous Star Wars projects. The link to his exact statement was posted earlier in this thread. He posted it on this page of the forum.
“BTW, this didn’t get a lot of publicity, but about 2 months ago, Disney requested that the Library of Congress make for them a scan of the original 1977 copyrighted theatrical print of Star Wars. I casually know the guy who did the scan over at the LoC. My bet is that they’re going to use this for reference to see where all the cuts, changes, alterations, and titles were done. But even if they started today, I’d be surprised if they could get a remastered 4K version done in a year.”