JadedSkywalker

The Casey Hudson whose new studio died to lack of funding and his game that was supposed to be everything we wanted from mass effect andromeda dead as well. Human origin is dead. And you aren’t wrong the end of Mass Effect 3 was a disaster. But he is lucky he isn’t associated with whatever BioWare became after he left. They’ve had a decade of failure. Dragon Age inquisition was their last hit. mass Effect Andromeda was a disaster, Anthem was an MMO dead on arrival. And the last nail in the coffin was Dragon Age the Veilgard. I would never trust them on a Mass Effect 4 specially after who recently purchased EA. Kotor and Mass Effect will remain a memory I cherish and Mass Effect Legendary edition was fantastic. Why didn’t they just remaster Kotor.

As for this studio making a new knights of the old republic game I have no idea about that, considering I hate MMO and never was a fan of anything but the first two Kotor games and never liked the old republic. I like single player story based games. I would have loved to have gotten Kotor 3.

I don’t think Star Wars story ran its course unless it’s just the Saga of Darth Vader 1-6. We never got Luke’s story post episode VI on film. I mean I guess you could claim the Saga was complete with Return of the Jedi. from a certain point of view. The Disney trilogy is the end of his journey, and it was only beginning in episode 6.

Star Trek by its episodic nature could go on forever. You can never have enough Kirk and Spock and The USS Enterprise.

And as for Marvel I’ve waited forever for an X-men film. All I wanted out of Marvel was a good X-Men film, and maybe a Fantastic four and then I was fine with being done with it. I’m not a fan of Disney Marvel I’m a fan of the comics.

The only other thing would have been a Raimi Spider-Man 4 with Tobey that was not a realistic thing to want. Sony and Marvel’s partnership and all that being what it is. I don’t at all care for the new Spider-Man movies except for that last one. But the nostalgia and multiverse stuff is getting stale.

Star Trek post Kurtzman is going to be a hard road for whoever takes the reigns. They can continue to do reboots and nostalgia and prequels or they can do something new, move the timeline beyond Picard season 3 and do a show in the 25th century.

Same for Disney Star Wars they have to move beyond the sequel trilogy timeline. They have to own The character of Rey Skywalker and the future of their own intellectual property.

Rob Reiner. It is a horrible way to go. And shocking. And still being investigated as homicide.

I still don’t get this iteration its way different than the Supergirl I know. I don’t remember her standing around in a trenchcoat. Its radically different than classic Supergirl.

Well I guess they have to try something; they can’t exactly do what the tv show did or the Helen Slater film did.

The tone sells it as Guardians of the Galaxy meets Captain Marvel. Let’s see what happens.

I’d likely rebuy Phantom Menace in 4K if it was the theatrical cut without the extreme DNR. The other two films I will never likely buy again. And Disney isn’t going to revert Phantom Menace. We aren’t getting creepy Puppet Yoda and the shorter edit of the film.

Fanedits that restore deleted scenes Is well a fanedit. I wouldn’t mind extended cuts of the prequels but then I would likely watch them only once.

oojason said:

JadedSkywalker said:

George wasn’t going to make sequels he was going to make Star Wars underworld and that never got made.

Disney’s priority was to make a commercial for a theme park. And to sell toys. Other ancillary merchandise. Storytelling was never as important as corporate planning was. They have shareholder calls and meetings, corporate boards and governance. Quarterly quotas.

Yeah, for me his ideas for Underworld sure seem a lot more intriguing than what we’ve learnt of his Sequel Trilogy outlines. 👍

A pity we never got to see that - especially given the writing talents assorted for the series (though some aspects of it have been rejigged for stories in other SW series since?).
 

Some of his sequel ideas have also been repurposed. If Mando and Grogu holds to be true they will be facing warlords running the remnants of the Empire. And Dave Filoni is using George’s ideas in Darth Maul Shadow lord with Darth Talon.

Wasn’t Luke as a colonel Kurtz like character allegedly in George’s treatment. That sort of ended up in the Last Jedi if not in the way George would have handled it. The astral projection/ Luke is a legend stuff. and not a straightforward redemption arc. That does not sound like George at all. I also don’t picture Lucas making the prequel Jedi failures and Luke’s meta narrative. Chuck the lightsaber it’s time for the Jedi to end. Burn the tree with the Jedi texts, oh that is right Rey stole them.

I do like the idea that the force is bigger than the light side and the dark side and its vanity that the force dies if the jedi religion dies. The balance being bigger than the jedi and Sith conflict is interesting and then its abandoned.

Is this the US laserdisc?

Edit: Nevermind the Embassy release is the Japanese. The one I’ve been looking for.

George wasn’t going to make sequels he was going to make Star Wars underworld and that never got made.

Disney’s priority was to make a commercial for a theme park. And to sell toys. Other ancillary merchandise. Storytelling was never as important as corporate planning was. They have shareholder calls and meetings, corporate boards and governance. Quarterly quotas.

I much prefer the 1977 Dolby Stereo.

I don’t want much done to the original mix except to replicate the original fidelity. I’d like it as is. No noise reduction, no attempt to make a near field mix.

I haven’t watched Die Hard in years. Its on my watch list but I don’t have the 4K.

Snubbed by the Globes except for Diego is wild. Genevieve was the standout of the series.

Didn’t the Special Edition restoration take 2 years to do? These things do take time.

At least when you are doing them properly and with quality in mind. Not a 30 day turnaround like the 2004 Lowry DVD.

To be honest I can’t wait until they release the trailer for this. Its going to be epic.

2022 makes perfect sense because the Fox deal finalized in 2019. The 40th was skipped for Star Wars but celebrated for Empire and Jedi which Disney had the rights to. So the 50th anniversary is kind of a big deal, even more so being the original.

Nothing of this magnitude has happened since the 1997 Special Edition, and the original Star Wars hasn’t been seen since the 1980 reissue. 1981 being the year A New Hope was added and they redid the crawl and starfield.

In 2027 it will have been almost 46 years since anyone has seen the original cut of Star Wars. As of this year it has been withheld for 44 years.

RM4747 said:

charlynne said:

I honestly thought that George would never do it, but I’m glad to be proven wrong. With so many changes made to this movie, a re-release of the original version and in higher quality was very due.

As of last year, George still seemed opposed to releasing the originals. He was asked directly at Cannes 2024, and grumbled about “We released them on DVD, but no one wanted them! Everyone said they looked terrible! It would cost millions of dollars to restore them! It’s my movie and I can change what I want!”

Once he sold the company in 2012, he gave up all control over things like this.

I seriously doubt they asked for his blessing, since they don’t need it. And Bob Iger supposedly doesn’t get along well with him anyway since he rejected his story ideas for Episodes 7-9 and he didn’t like the sequels.

What confuses me is why they waited so long.

Disney could’ve done this immediately after buying Lucasfilm, or for the 40th anniversary.

So I wonder who changed their mind, and why.

No they couldn’t for the 40th. They didn’t own Star Wars until 2019. The original film belonged to Fox.

Is Grauman’s going to show Star Wars in 2027?

They must still have the filmout tape which is the completed and finished negative. And the print master used to create cinema release prints. And the later DI which likely reflects the changes made for the 3D release and the 2011 Blu-Ray.

I think it’s kind of funny the 1997 edits on home video are stuck on primitive telecine to VHS, laserdisc and vcd. There is no DVD.

Lucas original vision never was on anything of higher quality except 35mm theater prints.

I don’t see Disney preserving those or the theatrical Phantom Menace.

They will do the originals only.

Howard Kazanjian a producers life. I had no idea the reason Tom Selleck was not available for Indiana Jones was because of a tit for tat spat over Universal being sued over Battlestar Galactica and Glen Larson getting even with Lucasfilm. Or that the Dykstraflex was used to film Galactica. And Lucasfilm was also suing to recover the equipment.

I also had no idea Richard Dreyfus refused to appear in both a second and third American Graffiti film.

Hell has indeed frozen over. Now if they could restore THX 1138 and American Graffiti. I doubt there is a lot on money on the table like Star Wars.

It would have been nice twenty years ago but late is better than never.

Though to watch the originals be restored in better quality than the special editions would be an irony indeed.

A lighthearted adventure movie is what Mando and Grogu is. A kids movie. Or at least the trailer said so, but trailers can also be lies like Rogue One.

I was hoping for Rogue Squadron. Though to be honest I was split on whether Patty Jenkins could pull it off. I thought Kathryn Bigelow might have been a better choice.

I’m heartened by the fact that no one sees the Maclunky scans as Archival anymore.

I do wonder if those scans were trash are they going to also remaster George’s final special edition cut and do we even care.

I meant for the visual effects of course like 2001 and Close Encounters.

Isn’t that what they did for Star Trek TMP they scanned the VistaVision and 65mm neg at Higher than 4K resolution?

I’d love to see that for Star Wars without the DNR added at the end though. SW is standard 4 perf and 8 perf? No 65mm negative despite it being considered before the film was made. They selected VistaVision.

Is Fallout decent?

Video game adaptations with the exception of the live action sonic the hedgehog and the super Mario animated are usually poorly done.

Like Halo I liked the first season but it did not adhere to the game canon, and season 2 went off the rails.

I’ve been wondering about Amazon making a Mass Effect show. I’d almost prefer it not to be made. because I have my game headcanon of my playthroughs through the game. Similarly, if Star Wars ever decided to do a Revan movie that adapted Kotor, I would dislike my game choices to be discarded in favor of a so-called canon choice story.

Although I know in EU Revan is canonically Male and redeemed as a Jedi. And the outcast is canonically female. But what is the point of having the ability to choose male or female or dark side or lightside ending. If someone says this is how it happened your player state was fanfiction.

Let’s say they cast commander Shepard as a man, Mark Meer. What if someone prefers Femshep played by Jennifer Hale.The can of worms that opens for fans, like if they chose one canonical love interest for the player. And everyone has their own unique playthrough choices.

Like if someone tried to make Skyrim show or something like that. there are thousands of different ways to play that game in Elder Scrolls.

The legend of Zelda movie I have no idea what to think. A Metroid movie would be awesome but derivative of Ripley and Aliens. I haven’t forgotten the Super Mario movie with Bob Hoskins. That is usually what comes to mind when videogame adaptations happen.