The recently released official Celebration itinerary has the screening listed as “Star Wars: A New Hope”. All that can really be inferred from that is that they want to be consistent with TFA’s downplaying of the episode numbers, but the fact that Disney isn’t squeamish about switching around the title of a film from before they acquired LFL gives me a small amount of hope that they’d be willing to walk back more the extreme Lucasisms in the future.
Related to all this (in that, I wonder what is even available for them to play at the event), does anyone know what version of the OT was played in those theatrical marathons when TFA released? I’ve been wondering if it was fairly new DCPs for the 2011 versions, or if they still have to theatrically distribute the '97 SEs.
They were DCP’s of the 2011 version, but somehow looked worse than the Blu-ray, my source tells me.
They probably just don’t resolve well blown up that large. They were telecined at just under 1080p, so blowing them up to like 40 feet across or whatever probably just didn’t work out too well. Another good reason why we need at least a new master, though Legacy would be preferable.