ZigZig

Darth Robin said:

From the review of the new release on thedigitalbits.com

“For the film’s original DVD release in 2001, that interpositive was scanned in 10-bit 2K by Lowry Digital, resulting in the creation of a 2K Digital Intermediate (complete with digital VFX tweaks and a color grade supervised by Lucas). This source was used again for the 2011 Blu-ray release, though with a bit more Lowry Digital remastering (and still more digital VFX and color timing tweaks)”

That is not true…
The source used for the DVD was the scan made in 1999 for the original VHS and LD release, plus regraded colors, new cut and alternate scenes.
It was NOT used again for the 2011 BR release. It was then a new scan directly from the original negative, which was reused for the 2012 3D version.

SA418 said:

I always thought that TPM was in 2K at best, as a result of its CGI and digital composition being only done in 2K. Wouldn’t the whole film need to be re-rendered to be truly in 4K or am I mistaken?

Actually, the DI (digital intermediate) was in 2k, so yes, TPM was in 2k at best.

kujythrgefdw said:

Centropy made a bootleg of the 35mm version of AOTC, so yes.
The Phantom Menace laserdisc doesn’t have English subtitles for the alien languages, so it doesn’t exactly represent the theatrical version.

Actually, the international theatrical version didn’t have subtitles for the alien languages, that was specific to the US and UK versions.

Yes, the 4K version obviously uses the same scan as the “old” Blu Ray, and is a little bit more vertically cropped (there is less image on the top and the bottom of the picture than in the “old” BR).

Maybe the scan was done in 4K nine years ago? Otherwise it is just an upscale with a pseudo-HDR.

Jakefan17 said:

I recently picked up 2 digital theater copies… looking for values??

Jakefan17 said:

The other digital roll is just marked Star Wars trilogy and seal has been broken…

I still don’t know what is a “digital theater copy” or a “digital roll”.

doubleofive said:

TDB has a breakdown of the bonus features.

https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/021820-1330

Thanks!
So nothing really new in the bonuses?

What is a “digital theater copy” ?

Thanks to the whole team of admins and moderators!

Waow JL232, you wrote 6 public messages (and 5 private messages) about only 5 words (“Episode IV- A new hope”). I’m impressed.

yotsuya said:

No one has done the DC to these standards. That is my dream archive set.

Isn’t the DC master the one used for GOUT DVDs?

No problem, I’m still seeding (yeah yeah yeah)

Hi nightstalkerpoet,

I’m reseeding right now :

[Laserdisc] Star Wars Trilogy 1995 THX French Release-Dubbed-480p
[Laserdisc] Star Wars Trilogy '95 THX French Boxset-168035-480p (althor said that it has a better quality than the other)

Enjoy!

Lovely!

MySpleen said:

All the other work I was doing and I forgot to check the domain renewal! Our current hosting provider offers domain management so I am transferring the domain over so I don’t have to check somewhere else for the domain renewal. This may cause delay of full service restoration but should prevent this from happening again.

Tack said:

yotsuya said:

Or its a behind the scenes photo.

The original script for D42: “Darth Vader and the regional Governor Moff Tarkin stand before a huge screen that shows a million stars. Admiral Motti and General Tagge are standing with them.”

There’s a number of reasons why it might have been cut, but considering the other images from David West Reynolds’ article are clearly screenshots, we shouldn’t rule this out.

Actually I think you’re right, this photo is taken from “The Evolution of Star Wars” by David Reynolds (in the famous The Star Wars Insider #41 where The Lost Cust was detailed).

yotsuya said:

Tack said:

Ronster said:

Look I made a mistake apologies about that but I did note that the Alien yet to be named Greedo apeared on 4th Draft revised not on 4th Draft so it is safe to assume that Montross became Greedo in the re-write that was the main point, but it negates the need for the Jabba scene IMO but would still be included in an assembly.

This is an alternate angle for scene D42.

I actually think you’re right about this. The novelization and Titleman script both describe this scene opening with the graphic of the star chart. They’re also in the same positions as in the final film. Either this is an alternate angle which they discarded in lieu of the single take used in the final film, or there was originally an establishing shot.

Or its a behind the scenes photo.

This

oojason said:

Please feel free to post such claims and any others in your own ‘Lost Cut’ thread - but not in here - not without more substantiated evidence other than an assumed / ‘could have been’ scenario… thank you.
 

Dek Rollins said:

Sure, it’s interesting to look at stuff that didn’t make it to the shooting script, but that should be discussed in a ‘script differences’ thread in the OT discussion area.

oojason said:

Please feel free to post such claims and any others in your own ‘Lost Cut’ thread - but not in here - not without more substantiated evidence other than an assumed / ‘could have been’ scenario… thank you.
 

Ronster said:

the Alien yet to be named Greedo apeared on 4th Draft revised not on 4th Draft

Wrong. Again. Stop. Leave. Please.

Ronster said:

Sorry but it is not on that list from the person who saw it… Unless that list misses that scene out for some reason

Off topic again.
Read SW Insider #41.
I’m done, I leave this topic until you disappear.

Ronster said:

ChainsawAsh said:

ZigZig said:

Ronster said:

You need to remove Greedo in the Cantina as this was a re-shoot to pair everything down then. I prefer the way it was done without the Jabba scene in terms how the handled it though.

No, definitely no.
The Cantina scene with Greedo is in the fourth script (Jan.1976)

Yeah, the Greedo cantina scene not a reshoot - when the Jabba scene was cut, the dialgoue in the Greedo scene was altered (by changing Greedo’s subtitles and lifting a Han line directly from the Jabba scene) to give the same information that the Jabba scene did. When they restored the Jabba scene in 1997, though, they forgot to revert the Greedo scene back to its originally-filmed state.

The Greedo scene is not a re-shoot but it was obviously caught that the Jabba scene was not working so the Jabba scene it would seem was discarded way before Tosche station and Biggs and so on all the other stuff.

There is no mention of the Jabba scene being in the Lost Cut.

https://starwarz.com/tbone/the-lost-cut-of-star-wars/

There are lot of mentions of the Jabba scene being in the Lost Cut.
Ronster, pleaaaaaaaase…

Ronster said:

You need to remove Greedo in the Cantina as this was a re-shoot to pair everything down then. I prefer the way it was done without the Jabba scene in terms how the handled it though.

No, definitely no.
The Cantina scene with Greedo is in the fourth script (Jan.1976), so it was not a late re-shoot. Did you read the scripts that ChainsawAsh mentioned above?

Anyway, we can assume that the Cantina scene with Greedo is in the Lost Cut, and it is in the final cut also 😃

oojason said:

Please feel free to post such claims and any others in your own ‘Lost Cut’ thread - but not in here - not without more substantiated evidence other than an assumed / ‘could have been’ scenario… thank you.
 

Please, could you do as oojason advised… ?

About the early scripts, there is also those amazing sites:
https://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/category/star-wars-scripts/star-wars-star-wars-scripts/
http://hem.bredband.net/wookiee/development/

Thank you ChainsawAsh!

Do you think we can assume that the Lost Cut is very close to the fourth draft (shooting script) ?

Noooooooooooooooooo!