I guarantee that an early draft of TFA had Luke doing something similar. Would have been awesome if it had happened that way instead.
I’d love to see Luke wield a blaster again. Not sure how that would work with the new persona though.
Right. What you’ve said only further points to George’s inconsistency.
The way I see it, Disney should at least give a clear statement whether they plan to release OOT or not. At least Lucas was clear on this matter.
Except he wasn’t. He released it two years later, albeit in shitty quality.
It’s called giving Disney the benefit of a doubt.
It’s been 5 years. Five. It was fine to give them the benefit of the doubt for a time. But five years is long enough to figure out that Disney has no plans to release the OOT.
Five years is the cutoff? So you have experience as a professional film restorer and seasoned, profit-driven studio executive then?
I’m pretty sure English is used as an analogue for whatever standardized language they all seem to speak. In every movie besides SW they also have a different alphabet.
It might actually be more profitable for Disney to release a new product now than in 2020. A 40th release I think is inevitable, and another repackage of the existing master would sell to new viewers, but not to folks like us.
A new product including OOT, on the other hand, would have wide appeal and justify a higher price. By 2020, I imagine we’ll be the only market, with the inevitable growth of streaming and the continued sale of the current version (at lower and lower real dollar prices) to people who wouldn’t care or notice the difference between the two products.
IIRC, the distributors cut is relatively small, and Disney would benefit more by increasing sales volume rather than waiting for the rights.
They’ve owned Lucasfilm for 5 years. How long do you think it takes to greenlight and execute a film restoration and release exactly?
It’s amazeballs that some of you were carrying your pitchforks to George’s door after a couple years, but after 5 years you’re all card carrying Mouseketeers. Give me more sequel crap!
Lol
To be honest both have the same amount of distracting fan service and poor writing. At this stage R1 bothers me more because retconning the exhaust port from a flaw to a feature is so lazy.
The R1 novelization shows that the exhaust port was rushed to approval, as a quick fix for the reactor overheating, because the project was behind schedule.
The exhaust port wasn’t retconned, but rather the reactor. Erso didn’t tell them to shoot a torpedo through the exhaust port, he told them to find a way to blow the reactor. They still needed to study the plans to find the way to the reactor. If the exhaust port was a feature, as Mocata alleges, they wouldn’t have need to steal the plans, because erso could have just told them about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Legacy-Jedi-1/dp/0439536669
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SHHH!
LG, I’ll sell it to you for $200. No less.
Are you holding a thermal detonator?
Shouldn’t this be in the spoilers thread?
I would say no, as this is apparent to everyone who’s read about this not in English.
I’m not taking just effects shots. Print grain is also apparent in many places. This works be absent from a restoration from the negative.
Wazzles said:
If we don’t hear anything by the 25th of May, then I will give up hope. Until then, I actively believe that the OUT will get a release this year. Even if it doesn’t, there are always fan preservations.Seeing what I have now in a box set thanks to Harmy and njvc, I don’t see how an official release can get much better than that!
It could get better because an official release would not vary so much in resolution and picture quality.
Or grain. Some of the 35mm shots in DE have excessive grain. I wouldn’t mind to much if it was the whole film, but what really bothers me is switching from BD to 35mm sources and having inconsistent grain levels.
yeah, the more i think about it, the more i think the novelty would wear off by like the second viewing
I had a thought, and probably totally off base but I think it would be pretty cool. We’ve seen the toy packaging and the poster. And the teaser crawl photo was B&W. Why? RED OPENING CRAWL. Totally not going to hapoen, and I’m sure a lot of people would find the break from tradition off putting. But I’d dig it.
And how much you wanna bet Rey learns something important, surreal, and surprising about herself or her lineage?
Ever??
Also, they changed the stormtrooper designs after ANH so this is yet another ESB rehash.
Next we’ll be hearing the First Order is looking for Luke and Rey. Shitty rehash.
Supposed image from TLJ:
If it’s accurate, we may be seeing subtle design tweaks to the Stormtroopers.
I dig. The frown is more evocative of the 1977 design.
It’s the whole intro part of the theme, before the main melody starts
Weird, had to check to make sure you’re right because that’s not what I remember, but yes it’s there (but only for the same reason it’s there in Avengers - the film was still distributed by Disney).
That’s certainly possible. Either way, anyone who doesn’t think Disney will start doing 4K releases of their own at some point is just fooling themselves.
Also my main point ended up being that it’s important to remember that Disney released the Phase One box set even though they only originally distributed one of those films, which is promising for SW.
Oh, I know Disney’s going to start releasing stuff on the format eventually. It’s just super annoying when all of the other major studios (even lionsgate) jumped on within only a few months and yet here we are almost a year later and probably looking at Rogue One being previous-gen format only. Hmmm, where have we seen that before with a Star Wars movie? Hint: I’m not talking about the GOUT, which was actually released several months after hddvd and blu-ray debuted.
Disney is always the last on board. They dragged their feet on DVD for the longest time, initially only licensing out a handful of live action films to Anchor Bay. And here we are in 2017, with some of the animated features still not on Blu Ray, and an appalling lack of anything else from the studios vast back catalog.
Yeah, we’ve got multiple “precious metal/stone” editions of some of the classic princess movies, but they can’t be bothered to transfer the Black Cauldron to a basic Blu release. Crazy.
I guess I’ll get them sometime then.
Hold out and see what’s released for the anniversary this year.
Most of the lightsaber duels were intense.
Disney may soon be making an entrance to UHD BD (as in April soon). From Bill Hunt:
According to the German BD site Bluray-Disc.de, Disney and Marvel have licensed Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3 to Concorde Home Entertainment for release in Germany on the 4K Ultra HD format on 4/6, both individually and as a Steelbook trilogy. You can see more here and also here.
If this is true, it would seem likely that a U.S. release is also soon to be announced. After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
We know that Disney has been waiting for more Dolby Vision capability to start appearing in 4K hardware before joining the format and, as we reported at CES last month, Sony, TCL, LG, Vizio, and Philips have all agreed to support Dolby Vision in their displays and players. The new Oppo UDP-203 player will also support Dolby Vision after a forthcoming firmware update.
We’ve reached out to Disney to see if we can find out more on this and we’ll let you know if and what we hear back from them.
I’m really surprised to hear Bill say something uneducated like that. Movies coming out in other regions (from other studios) is about as indicative of a stateside release as seeing it on cable in HD. Or being able to buy it streaming.
One really has nothing to do with the other.
After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
This was not the case for BD. Why would they let Concorde entertainment get cuts for American purchases when they could just release it themselves in the U.S.? Unlike with a BD, there is no region coding to protect against that and force American buyers to wait for a U.S. release.
Disney may soon be making an entrance to UHD BD (as in April soon). From Bill Hunt:
According to the German BD site Bluray-Disc.de, Disney and Marvel have licensed Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3 to Concorde Home Entertainment for release in Germany on the 4K Ultra HD format on 4/6, both individually and as a Steelbook trilogy. You can see more here and also here.
If this is true, it would seem likely that a U.S. release is also soon to be announced. After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
We know that Disney has been waiting for more Dolby Vision capability to start appearing in 4K hardware before joining the format and, as we reported at CES last month, Sony, TCL, LG, Vizio, and Philips have all agreed to support Dolby Vision in their displays and players. The new Oppo UDP-203 player will also support Dolby Vision after a forthcoming firmware update.
We’ve reached out to Disney to see if we can find out more on this and we’ll let you know if and what we hear back from them.
Right. I’m just saying legally it’s no different. Ryan was suggesting it is someone different from a legal perspective.
That’s because Fox only owns physical distribution. They will distribute whatever Lucasfilm gives them. It’s really no different now than it was before the Disney acquisition.
