Lord Starfish said:
Mind you, with all the different editions of Star Wars that are available now, I feel that the only way to truly satisfy everyone would be to remaster and release all of them with the same amount of care. I mean, I’m still pining for a high quality version of the 97 Jedi ending scene…
I think the original trilogy deserves one more final truly ultimate edition Blu-ray box that includes every cut that has been released, in addition to maybe a new “semi-specialized” edit that includes only the subtle technical fixes and clean up rather than major content changes like Greedo shooting or bullshit like Jedi Rocks. Even better would be some kind of branching option where you could pick and choose parts from each cut you want to watch. I’m not sure how technically feasible that is, but you might be able to squeeze it all on a Blu-ray disc if you have each title share all scenes except those which are changed. The way I would do it is just put the original cuts (with selectable crawl for ANH) on disc 1, maybe along with some special features like vintage documentaries to fill out the disc, and then put a branching special edition on disc 2 where you could toggle the major alterations from each subsequent version on and off or just choose from the 97, 2004, and 2011 cuts. A 6 disc box with that would be amazing and the perfect send-off to the original trilogy on physical media. Because, let’s face it, Blu-ray is almost certainly the last ever physical home video format. Might as well throw it on 4K Blu-ray discs for good measure and future proofing (assuming they’re working from a fresh 4K scan - which they should). If they did all that, they would satisfy everybody and frankly I think that is the only way they could at this point.