My apologies if this has been mentioned already but there's an article in the newest Star Wars Insider about the digital editions of the "making of" books that is coming out in the fall. It's mentioned that additional deleted scenes/dailies will be included in them.
Sucks that they couldn't be put into another boxed set. I'm reminded of the "Making Magic" set...
I guess we'll only have crappy quality versions of them.
Well hopefully they'll use better compression than before. So for those that have already purchased the first two, they'll have to purchase the digital versions just to get the extra content? Well that sucks .
There's no way I'm going to re-buy the books to get extra content. It will show up online somewhere, anyhow.
Kind of annoying they keep holding things back. Some of us aren't getting any younger! There was too much fluff on the Blu Ray extras, and the Robot Chicken stuff had it's own video releases.
Still, could be a bonanza for fan edits.
Where were you in '77?
Yeah, from what Rintzler said in the interview, there's going to be a TON of extra stuff. Whereas the print book may have had 1 picture of something, the digital might have 5-10. And there's going to be clips: specifically what was mentioned was the crew roaming around the Death Star, an alternate version of the Luke Hoth scar restoration, etc.
I'll try and scan the important parts when I get back home today.
I can only imagine that the file sizes for these books is going to be huge.
So plenty of scope for screwing it up then :-D
More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.
I'm pretty sure those extra clips will look like crappy 360p YouTube vids. So basically it's (possibly great) material going to waste, because of no proper release.
Laserschwert said:
I'm pretty sure those extra clips will look like crappy 360p YouTube vids. So basically it's (possibly great) material going to waste, because of no proper release.
Weeelll tablets are pretty hi-res these days. You might actually be looking at 720?
I miss the days when stuff like this was actually released on CD or DVD.
Or in the cinema.
Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)
Mielr said:
Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)
Baronlando said:
More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.
They have been screwing with us for a very long time....
digitalfreaknyc said:
Mielr said:
Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)
Imagine if they released 1 every 2 years to coincide with the new films? Damn.
Lucasfilm publically stated seven years ago that they don't have any future plans to restore these films.
Lucas himself have stated that they are dead to him and that he wish they disappear, when being confronted with this question he always give weak excuses not to do it.
Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."
About four years until we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of the Original Trilogy.
We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions.
Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com
msycamore said:
Baronlando said:
More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.
They have been screwing with us for a very long time....
digitalfreaknyc said:
Mielr said:
Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)
Imagine if they released 1 every 2 years to coincide with the new films? Damn.
Lucasfilm publically stated seven years ago that they don't have any future plans to restore these films.
Lucas himself have stated that they are dead to him and that he wish they disappear, when being confronted with this question he always give weak excuses not to do it.
Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."
About four years until we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of the Original Trilogy.
digitalfreaknyc said:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not a newbie here. I'm aware of all of that...but a lot has changed.
Hopefully the Disney deal will change some/all of this.
I hope I'm wrong but I honestly don't think that much have changed regarding this, why would Kathleen Kennedy and Disney suddenly want to overrrun George Lucas wishes? Because they need money? Because it's the right thing to do? George Lucas is Disney's second largest single shareholder.
I can see it happen sometime in the future but not in the near future. The new films and shows will make people go nuts anyway. They don't need to sell the original films.
We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions.
Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com
msycamore said:
why would Kathleen Kennedy and Disney suddenly want to overrrun George Lucas wishes? Because they need money? Because it's the right thing to do? George Lucas is Disney's second largest single shareholder.
Once Team Negative 1 finishes their project, I bet that will be an inspiration for Lucasfilm and Disney to re-examine things.
You know of the rebellion against the Empire?
msycamore said:
Baronlando said:
More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.
They have been screwing with us for a very long time....
digitalfreaknyc said:
Mielr said:
Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)
Imagine if they released 1 every 2 years to coincide with the new films? Damn.
Lucasfilm publically stated seven years ago that they don't have any future plans to restore these films.
Lucas himself have stated that they are dead to him and that he wish they disappear, when being confronted with this question he always give weak excuses not to do it.
Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."
About four years until we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of the Original Trilogy.
This is the first I've heard of McCallum saying that. Was it before or after October 30th of last year?
Also, yeah, LFL officially said that to all of us almost seven years ago (how could we possibly forget?), but didn't Lucas himself say just a couple years ago at some convention that it was a matter of the OOT being too expensive (as of that date) to restore?
Let's be honest. If George had wanted the OOT to (eventually) die with the tapes and laserdiscs, he never would've put it out on dvd. It renders his quote I read in someone's sig kinda meaningless. The GOUT may have been garbage quality by 2006 standards, but it was still technically speaking the highest quality official transfer of the original versions ever (essentially the '93 lasers viewed directly from their digital source). More importantly, it was now on a completely digital format that could be preserved bit for bit exactly as it was, ad infinitum. If it'd been about anything but money, Lucas wouldn't have put it out at all.
It's entirely possible Lucas stipulated the OOT remain buried when he sold Star Wars to Disney. You would think $4 Billion would've earned them his permission, and I would certainly hope it was enough money to make him no longer care.
Fang Zei wrote: This is the first I've heard of McCallum saying that. Was it before or after October 30th of last year?
Here's a fairly recent quote: January 18th, 2012
Article: http://collider.com/rick-mccallum-red-tails-star-wars-tv-series-interview/138426/
Thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/McCallum-Wishes-OOT-Were-on-Blu-Ray/post/582848/
Lets face it: each film deserves its own special edition with film-specific extras. I'm hoping Disney sees the potential there.
Been thinking the exact same thing for a while now.
Even before the Disney deal happened, I was thinking this would be a great way for LFL to ease their worries of "we'll never make enough profit off a proper release of the OOT to justify the amount we'd need to spend on restoring it."
I don't buy the financial argumment for a second.
TPM:3D took an additional $102,727,119 worldwide. Now that's a release of a Star Wars film everybody hates, in a format everybody hates. Imagine if the fully restored ESB that everybody loves was released in a format everybody loves like 70mm on iMAX screens = A licence to print money
ESB returned it's entire production budget (and more) in a single weekend in 1997.
Scorcese's Film Foundation quotes full restorations as costing hundreds of thousands of dollars not hundreds of millions. But again even if the restoration costs 10 or 20 million dollars. They would make that back in a day!
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msycamore said:
Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."
But you took that quote way out of context, so it doesn't mean what it does in this shortened snippet.
I would have to answer that officially it’s never gonna happen, but you never know with George. It’s one of the constant things that—let’s put it this way, it changes always. You never know.
It's basically just that the official line ("I would have to answer") at that point was no OT, and that's pretty much what all LFL employees were saying. He also admits that the "official line" doesn't mean sith with Lucas anyway, so the whole quote basically means nothing.
Laserschwert said:
"I would have to answer that officially it’s never gonna happen, but you never know with George. It’s one of the constant things that—let’s put it this way, it changes always. You never know."
More deleted scenes ? I don't need further details, I'm getting this
