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Do you think Disney will release the unaltered versions for DVD and blue ray?
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28-Jun-2016, 1:32 PM

You do make a good point, Maestro. If Lucas was really that crazily, fundamentally against anyone ever seeing the originals period in any form, if he really wanted to go full 1984 and pretend they never existed, we wouldn’t have even gotten the GOUT. It was an extremely lazy release, yes, but a release all the same. He was probably just far too lazy to bother doing a full HD restoration of the originals and he also kind of wanted to stick it to the fans who didn’t like his new “vision.” Then again he even went so far as to restore the 77 title crawl on the GOUT DVD, so I guess he wasn’t totally against history at that point. And since then, he literally sold everything Star Wars, conceded defeat and said he was done with it, and though he whined about Disney not using his ideas for the sequels, he did nothing to stop it from happening. And as I’ve said before, if he didn’t insert some kind of clause forcing Disney to use his ideas, he certainly wouldn’t have inserted one forbidding them from releasing the OUT, especially since he did it himself a few years earlier. I don’t think he cares anymore if the originals come out with a proper restoration, so long as he doesn’t have to do the work himself.

So that leaves only a few possible reasons we haven’t seen it yet:

  1. There are some kind of technical hurdles (i.e. George really did destroy the original negatives), but that’s not much of an excuse since if even Harmy can make a great looking version from far more limited sources, Disney and Lucasfilm certainly can.
  2. There are some kind of legal disputes between Disney and 20th Century Fox, though they seemed to have resolved this enough to re-issue the Blu-rays and put out a digital download release.
  3. They are working on it, but have not finished it yet or are holding off for an anniversary release or some other time after hype has been built to maximize profits.
  4. Disney is really stupid and does not see the money to be made from this release and/or they actually agree with George’s “vision” and think the SEs should remain the only available versions. Highly unlikely, since they have clearly de-emphasized the prequel era and emphasized the original era since taking over, going so far as to even re-issue the original soundtracks complete with “Lapti Nek” and “Yub Nub.” They also have said they’re out to satisfy the fans, and they’re certainly not ignorant of the fan demand considering people like those on this site have made their desires loud and clear repeatedly.