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starwars.com has OOT image!

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Hey guys, check out the image on the homepage of starwars.com right now (this is the story associated with it). It has the black-panel R2 from what I assume is their new 4k restoration. This is the strongest indication yet that the OOT is officially on its way to BD!

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Pretty sure that's a behind-the-scenes image and not a still from the film. You can see the stump where the wing ends prematurely and some of the set through the window...

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Yes exciting as this would be, it looks clearly like a photo to me and I'm almost 99.99% sure that shot isn't in SW anyhow.

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Yeah that's definitely an on-set photograph taken during the filming

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I was going to ask how is this proof that the OOT is coming out.

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canofhumdingers said:

Pretty sure that's a behind-the-scenes image and not a still from the film. You can see the stump where the wing ends prematurely and some of the set through the window...

Yeah OK I think you're right, but it's a blue-screen shot and the background is black, so it's not a raw behind-the-scenes shot. Disney has regardless chosen a photo they know will invoke (as it did for me) images of the OOT in the minds of the visitors to starwars.com, to me that's still a pretty strong indication that an official OOT is indeed happening.

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RU.08 said:

canofhumdingers said:

Pretty sure that's a behind-the-scenes image and not a still from the film. You can see the stump where the wing ends prematurely and some of the set through the window...

Yeah OK I think you're right, but it's a blue-screen shot and the background is black, so it's not a raw behind-the-scenes shot. Disney has regardless chosen a photo they know will invoke (as it did for me) images of the OOT in the minds of the visitors to starwars.com, to me that's still a pretty strong indication that an official OOT is indeed happening.

 ...still not seeing the connection of that pic and the OOT.

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Welp, that confirms it, OOT is coming to blu ray.

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Well, it may not be any sort of indication to a future OOT blu ray, photos like that do reveal that today's Lucasfilm isn't so afraid of acknowledging the original craftsmanship of the films.  

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Handman that photo looks great!

@boredom3031 - all I said was that the image is in my opinion the "strongest indication yet" that we are getting the OOT officially on bluray. I may have been mistaken about thinking the shot was from the films (although notice Handman's photo shows the bluescreen and that the photo I posted should show the bluescreen if it's a raw BTS photo), but I still think it's an indication of what's coming. After all it looks so distinctly different to how the DVD version (also released on BD) looks. Of course there's no confirmation yet, notice that we know that they have done a new 4k restoration but we don't know any release details - I think that itself is a good sign. It means they're doing the restoration and then worrying about release, instead of announcing it first and then making the restoration fit to the release deadline.

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Motion control, I suppose. You don't always have to do things in "normal" orientation when you're working with effects shots.

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boredom3031 said:

Welp, that confirms it, OOT is coming to blu ray.

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They could put pictures of anything on there. I won't take it as any indication that the OOT is coming, until there's some sort of official word on it. As I'd rather not get my hopes up again only to be let down.

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RU.08 said:

canofhumdingers said:

Pretty sure that's a behind-the-scenes image and not a still from the film. You can see the stump where the wing ends prematurely and some of the set through the window...

Yeah OK I think you're right, but it's a blue-screen shot and the background is black...

 Could the lights just be off?

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I wouldn't take these production stills as any particular sign that the OOT is on its way. After all, there was plenty of bts footage in Empire of Dreams of stuff that had been thoroughly altered on the accompanying discs of the actual movies. The irony is no doubt lost on whatever interns posted these photos.

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TheBoost said:

Could the lights just be off?

Actually now that I think about it, perhaps that angle doesn't show the blue-screen.

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I'm quite fond of this image they have tucked away in the article:

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