Someday the kids who were 5 when the prequels came out won’t be around anymore, and then nobody will want to watch those videos anyway.
Hey, I was five… and I never want to watch them again.
About time.
Also in news about movies finally coming to Blu: The Pink Panther sequels!
The Pink Panther has been out for a while now, but the sequels have been slow to follow. Hopefully they’ll release individual titles, I really just want a Shot in the Dark, and IIRC, the DVD is just dreadful.
Maybe that’s what the Steelbook cases were initially intended for. The hoopla around their release was pretty stupid given that the inside was the exact same crap they’d been selling for four years at that point.
I appreciate all the citations posted thus far, but can someone link me to where I can find info on Disney requesting an archival print of Star Wars from the Library of Congress?
LOC made a scan. I think the “at the request of lucasfilm” is based on insider info from one forum or another.
http://mashable.com/2015/12/17/star-wars-original-cut/#a_CNL7Sxdgqm
The exchange between the two is amazing and I would have loved to see Krennic try to bring Galen to his side of thinking in a couple of flashback scenes. This also could have given the film more time to develop Galen as a character so that his death would be more impactful.
Definitely recommend Catalyst, Krennic is the best part of the book.
Never read a Star Wars novel, except 1/4 of Plaguies which I gave up on. But I might pick this up once it’s out in paperback.
That might be some distorted version of the rumor that the OUT had been restored, but the original film needed “more work.” Hence “this conversion” not being used.
Thanks. I tried to look for it to no avail
Only tangentially related, but was there ever an LP/CD release that had the film version of Lapti Nek? It’s very different from the soundtrack version, and I recently stumbled across a full-length version on YouYube.
Neither did George Lucas, at the time.
Honestly difficult to imagine Vader being subservient to anyone who wasn’t at least his peer vis-a-vis the force.
Sony finally lost the license and Disney records put them out as soon as they could so they could get that money. Nothing remotely pertaining to the release of the OOT here.
Is it not significant which version they chose to put out? As far as I can tell, there is no © Lucasfilm version of the SE soundtrack just released.
Maybe, but I hope that the OUT won’t be only available on 4K UHD discs. I don’t have a player.
I wouldn’t expect any feature content to be available exclusively on UHD.
I don’t have a player either, but I would buy a BD/UHD combo pack over a BD-only or BD/DVD pack in a heartbeat to future proof it in case LF decides to fuck us over again.
Probably jumping the gun here, but if LF/2oth C. Fox do indeed plan on a home video release of the OT this year (edit: OUT or otherwise–the latter would be valuable for preservation efforts), what are the chances it will be available in the UHD BD format? I know Disney doesn’t yet support the format, but Fox seems to be pushing it pretty hard (especially with the sci-fi/action genre). As this would be a “distributed by 2oth C. Fox” release, might we see it released in 4K for home media?
“we do know that Disney and Lucasfilm have created a new 4K master of the original Star Wars (1977 – don’t ask us which version, though we strongly suspect they have 4K presentations of both the original and George Lucas’ preferred version).” - Digital Bits. I trust Bill Hunt’s strong suspicions more than most people’s
Oldie but goodie 😄
guess i missed it
isn’t this a rebellion of sorts?
EDIT: Then again, I think that this entire forum is overly concerned with color correction. I think I might be in the minority there, though.
I’m with you.
Yeah, what kind of loser obsesses over the exact hue of the Death Star control panel lights?
I mean really, nobody cares!I care about obvious shit like Hoth being blue or Vader’s lightsaber being pink, but half the time I see before and after pics here and they look nearly identical.
The sky being 0.02% too blue in one shot does not bother me in the slightest.
Yup
Yeah maybe if we stop talking about it, Lucasfilm’s restoration crew won’t even know it’s there.
Re: wardrobe malfunction
Here’s something weird.
New soundtracks on iTunes, copyright Lucasfilm 2017. Have artwork that matches the digital movie download art, but are OUT track listings:
Also note they use the new preferred naming conventions, dropping the episode number from the title.
iTunes also offers the OUT soundtracks with original art, but they are copyright '77, '80, and '04 (weird, I know)
Edit: also, no mention of Sony in the copyright garble as is the case with the older versions.
Edit2: there are also new versions for the PT, but with the same track listing, just different art. Both remain available on iTunes.
It’s happening boys. There’s no way all this is happening simultaneously by coincidence or that this many people are wrong or flat out lying (why would they?).
A thought just occurred to me. If the OOT is released, would they put the “Legends” banner on it and stick with the SE’s as canon?
Is there anything in OUT that conflicts with “official” canon?
Besides, despite all the shit we’ve endured, I’d trust Lucasfilm not to tarnish their masterpieces with silly banners like that.
Is it possible/not unlikely that the demo clips hadn’t gone through a final color pas yet?
Who voices old Kenobi? Sounds just like Guiness!
Just re-watched the reliance demo reel. Don’t know what y’all think, but it’s stunning IMO, especially the shots from the Bespin duel. On the BD, is just drab and gray looking. In the demo, all kinds of blues are coming out, and the sabers don’t suffer from that terrible over saturation.
Sony stated why they didn’t use the newly remastered mixes for the CD release that coincided with the digital collection. They said and I paraphrase “Younger generations grew up on the SE scores so we decided to use the SE mixes for the CD release” youtube.com/watch?v=YuH7uznb2bU. But now I guess they decided to release the original soundtracks for streaming. I think this is a sign of cool things to come bois
I think that the original versions of the movies are restored in 4K and will be released sometime this year. Possibly an announcement at Star Wars Celebration.
Disney would be so smart to live stream a huge mystery panel where they unveil new blu-rays with updated special features, bonus commentaries, beautiful original artwork and most of all…the unaltered original Star Wars trilogy remastered in beautiful 4K. Not to mention if they made a new special edition with the offensive SE elements removed and even better CGI and models used to update matte paintings and aged effects. They could preview footage, have a panel afterwards speak about the restoration process and what it means to fans. And then just so it’s all worth it, plop on a 150 dollar price tag for the full set in its glory. And hell yah I would pay for something like that.
Please Disney…read this post and follow exactly as I instructed. You will make so much damn money and you will make us fans so damn happy.
It wouldn’t cost that much. The Complete Saga didn’t cost that much. I’d expect something in the 50-70 dollar retail range.
From everything I’ve heard from a variety of people that I think are reliable, I think it’ll happen in 2017. If it doesn’t happen this year then I give up.
That is if they don’t force us to buy the PT to get the special features as they did last time around.