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#665381
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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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You might try hairy_hen's alternate ROTJ audio that you can find a link to in his thread. There's an alternate musical cue during the Kenobi exposition scene, but perhaps the audio is synced perfectly. 

You could even just do a quick edit and splice the two together, circumventing the alternate music in that scene. 

Y'know, for lack of anything better before your marathon. 

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#664628
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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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I agree; I have no quibs with "special edition" treatments, but Star Wars is the only one I can think of that intentionally tries to obscure the original version. 

I'd like to do a fan edit of a "tasteful" special edition, but I doubt that Harmy's DEed would match up very well with any other transfer in terms of color and grain and things. 

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#664195
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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Perhaps he was able to write something halfway decent given that he did it of his own initiative and with no deadlines. At least it isn't a script. It's not dialogue we're talking about, just the napkin-sized synopses that others will run with. 

I'm surprised to hear myself say this, but I think it's good that GL is involved in that capacity. (But only that capacity.)

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#661062
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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The script might not be perfect, but Harmy seems to have done a thorough job of customizing it afterward. I don't think it'd necessarily benefit greatly from starting all over. 

Personally I'd feel a lot better if I watched two minutes of the BluRays themselves then looked at the Despecialized again. Any imperfections melt by comparison.

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#660486
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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skywalker89 said:

Can someone recreate the deleted Jabba Scene? from "a new hope" with? the actor Declan Mulholland in HD? The available version of a reconstruction is bad because you can see the stencils and the quality differences of the sources, also a color correction is missing.

And I also want to see the final version from 1997 in HD, with and without original cinema subtitles. If someone needs some source, I have a DVD Transfer from a 1997 German Laserdisc, with original German cinema subtitles.

And color correction & picture cleaning of the official Blu Ray deleted scenes would also be nice.

It's been attempted, but there's not enough source material to do it 100%. The most that can be done still has a few seconds of CGI Jabba. It wouldn't suffice in a proper edit. 

I've heard about a Japanese Laserdisc that has the original version of the scene, though I don't know if it would be enough to do what you're asking.