I’m choosing to lean on the side of this being legit, the leaks look a little too detailed, in my opinion, to be faked, but of course stranger things have happened. I guess you could say I’m cautiously optimistic, but if is real it looks promising, especially seeing that they’re restoring the original mono and 6-track mixes…I also love how in the 2004 and 2011 masters are listed as rejected sources LOL.
“Bring my shuttle.”
On the subject of these pictures though… they look nice? I’m not expert but it’s newly graded and the old magenta is gone and the new Disney+ de-saturation is also gone. There’s a bunch of technical stuff in text form which is odd, and so is the lack of real watermark other than a tiny text thing underneath. Is someone on the site that’s been working on their versions over the years around to comment?
I mean, the fact the leak exists in the way it does is odd, full stop (an automated process breaking and accidentally revealing some part of the restoration team is using private YouTube uploads to share quick clips for QC with other parts of the team, complete with chats/transcripts), but the fact the pics look clearly different from the Reliance stuff, AND clearly different from any of the 4K projects, makes it seem pretty clear to me this is the goods.
To add to the mystery, the company that the redditor claims posted these has a private Vimeo page with this one upload publicly visible.
To add to the mystery, the company that the redditor claims posted these has a private Vimeo page with this one upload publicly visible.
It’s from the deleted scene with Luke and 3po.
They also have these 3:
https://vimeo.com/1114746661
https://vimeo.com/1114758654?from=outro-local
https://vimeo.com/1114770007?from=outro-local
At this point, with actual video clips publicly viewable, Lucasfilm might as well just start intentionally teasing us over the next couple years.
To add to the mystery, the company that the redditor claims posted these has a private Vimeo page with this one upload publicly visible.
It’s from the deleted scene with Luke and 3po.
They also have these 3:
https://vimeo.com/1114746661
https://vimeo.com/1114758654?from=outro-local
https://vimeo.com/1114770007?from=outro-local
I thought it looked a little Tunisia-ish but I didn’t want to hope in vain! At the risk of getting burned, this is starting to seem like it would have to be a very elaborate hoax at this point.
(And as an aside, that shot of the lone asteroid hurtling away is giving me big Eraserhead vibes)
Well that’s the thing that makes this so alternately confounding and frustrating: Lucasfilm (or the company being hired out to help restore all this stuff for Lucasfilm for 2027) IS basically teasing us, intentionally or no. And I can’t believe that, by this point, nobody at either the company, or at LFL, doesn’t know about this. But it seems like even in the circles where these leaks and teases would have been massive news just a couple years ago, people are doing one of two things
Both of which combine to make this feel like a big fat “so what.” If these sorts of things don’t spark anything off at the spoiler forums, if the people who hawk those places for cheap/easy “content” at Geek outlets online don’t really care, and if they can’t even gain traction in the place literally NAMED after something like this finally happening, it makes me wonder whether it’s simply too late for this to make the sort of impact many of us have been presuming it’d make when it finally happened.
Definitely seems too elaborate to be a hoax at this point. Not just because of those peculiar Vimeo clips, but also the internal documents the Redditor posted on Imgur seem WAAAAY too detailed to be fake, imo. Whoever wrote them clearly knows what they’re talking about in terms of film restoration, and I can’t imagine someone going through all that effort to fake it just for some internet points in a niche community.
“Bring my shuttle.”
I can’t speak for the people that logged far more hours here than I have, but if this is what it looks like, then I feel like it’s kind of fulfilling the stated mission of this site to a degree. Not to say the myriad fan edits and restorations would be unnecessary or outmoded, but finally having a high-quality, official release of the original cultural touchstone is the ultimate victory for people that have been here for 20+ years, isn’t it?
I agree that it’s weird nobody seems to be noting it right now (I am myself a mostly a lurker who’s been away from here for half a decade, and I was shocked to see nobody had posted about this before me) but I have to believe that the real Yub Nub would start once there’s an official announcement.
It’s still pretty early. If this is, in fact, real (which it looks like it is), hype will almost certainly start building as it comes closer and we get official announcements and whatnot.
“Bring my shuttle.”
To add to the mystery, the company that the redditor claims posted these has a private Vimeo page with this one upload publicly visible.
It’s from the deleted scene with Luke and 3po.
They also have these 3:
https://vimeo.com/1114746661
https://vimeo.com/1114758654?from=outro-local
https://vimeo.com/1114770007?from=outro-localI thought it looked a little Tunisia-ish but I didn’t want to hope in vain! At the risk of getting burned, this is starting to seem like it would have to be a very elaborate hoax at this point.
You can see for yourself. It’s from this deleted scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTr1usny3E
If I wasn’t at work right now I’d probably see if I could figure out which asteroid that is from Empire Strikes Back, LOL. And then I’d step frame-by-frame through 4K80 for like 3 minutes before I got bored and gave up