I see this logo from time to time in articles and the like. It vaguely resembles the the SE poster logo for SW (see the W), but it is not the same. Is it a fan made creation? Or was It used in an official capacity by LF at some point?
We’re not debating whether such a thing is possible in an imaginary universe in which laser sword-wielding wizards can come back from the dead as ghosts. Rather, we question the logic behind redeemed Vader presenting himself to his son in a form he wouldn’t recognize.
Uh, no
…novels like Darth Plagueis makes Midichlorians a fascinating concept and made the politics and Anakin being Space Jesus tolerable.
Oh, I doubt that very much.
I once thought as you do…
Maybe, but it would be easier to just reclassify the prequels as Legends.
I got an email recently that tickets were available in my area. Must’ve only cancelled some venues.
Why don’t luke start getting deformed when he’s hit by lightning? I don’t think he was hit as long but should have been long enough to at least change a little.
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There were plenty of great stories they could have preserved while leaving room for new canon stories to be told.
And they’re all available in paper back with a little yellow “legends” banner. What difference does it make if they’re official?
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Most-telling-SE-moment/id/49625
Like, still on the first page 😛
There’s no way they would remove the logo and fanfare from an OUT release. They would present the movie as close as possible to how it was (at least to the layman if not nitpickers like us), and the iconic fanfare’s absence would be quite a glaring omission.
Would they even have the rights to do so?
Another thing to note is that, for the aforementioned examples of MGM/WB, Paramount/Universal, etc., the studio logo in the original opening credits still represents the studio that originally funded and PRODUCED the picture. So the logo serves primarily as a credit, not an ad for the studio. WB/Universal in these cases is the new DISTRIBUTOR and rights holder, and they’ll usually add their logo somewhere before the original film starts or before the disc menu.
In the case of 20th C. Fox, as it relates to Empire, Jedi, and the prequels, they only were the DISTRIBUTOR, not the PRODUCING studio. Any release post-2020 will have no 20th C. involvement for those films at all, either in the original production or current distribution. Having the logo on them would be quite odd indeed.
I really want the fox logo and fanfare. I’ve added it to my custom force awakens edit and is iconic. And if we want the true theatrical versions then the fanfare should be the same.
Out of curiosity, which logo and version of the fanfare did you use in the edit?
Cool
Well for now, the only evidence we have to go on is that Disney chose to remove the logos from the digital SE releases.
Edit: with the exception of Star Wars, of course
Ditto. Though it would be odd at first. Odd, but not necessarily bad. As has been said, though, there is no choice in the matter. If released digitally or after 2020 on hard media, Empire and Jedi won’t have Fox trademarks. If released on disc before 2020, they most certainly will, assuming the legal stuff doesn’t change. It’s hard to see it ever being removed from Star Wars. Fox letting that asset go seems an impossibility.
We get it. YouTube automatic subtitles don’t work. These aren’t random anymore, so could we put them in a dedicated thread?
Oh and also, keep in mind that the GOUT is widely believed to have been released in response to the prevalence of laserdisc transfer bootlegs in circulation. Now with fan preservations like Despecialized and SSE making the news, more pressure is on now than it was even then to do something about it.
I don’t think you’re reaching at all, because whenever I watch The Force Awakens, nothing about the whole movie reminds me of the prequels at all, except for when Maz Kanata says and I paraphrase “I’ve seen evil take many forms. The Sith, The Empire, today, it is The First Order.”
I don’t think the Sith line was directly prequel-related. I get what you’re saying though. The only part that made me think of the prequels was the “clone army” mention.
Even clone armies are alluded to in the OT though.
oops. apparently I think “edit” means “quote”
nickyd47 said:
And Disney owns Lucasfilm. Makes sense for them to not give FOX a new material they may have.
Oh man, what if we get the theatrical cuts with the truncated new Lucasfilm opening. Oh god.
Well Disney is making $ either way. Lucasfilm still gets most of the moneys from sales of existing I–VI editions, and they did even before the Disney acquisition. And as long as Fox still has the distribution rights, they’ll certainly still insist on having their logo at the beginning.
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As I understand it, Fox will still get the distributor’s cut for I–VI for any release before 2020 (or thereabouts, whenever their deal ends). It’s just that the SE is the only cut they have access to to release unilaterally, and in the absence of new material from Lucasfilm, that’s what they have to release to make money from SW.
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Is it not a combination of numerous prints, in order to obtain an image as accurate and sharp as the negative ?
Yes to the first, no to the second.
Not 100% as sharp as the negative but Mike has estimated that it’s probably 90-95% of the way there. So it’s still essentially at a much higher quality than anyone saw in theaters.
As I understand it, by using multiple prints, he has been able to isolate the negative grain, which is on every print, and preserve it, while removing the print grain, which is unique to each print, thus restoring original detail and preserving filmic quality.
Edit: by original detail, I don’t mean to original level of detail, but rather that the added detail is all original to the negative.
If that’s the case, maybe we’ll hear something at tomorrow’s panel.
Edit: if this is indeed true, unless there’s some kind of new offering like OUT our 4k, there will be no demand for a new OT set at this point after last fall’s releases.
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I think most of us are firmly in the ‘Original Trilogy purists’ camp.
Very astute observation
I don’t even know what that means. But if it confuses yhwx, I’m cool.
