What special features do we think will be on this release if one happens? Empire of Dreams in HD? Deleted Scenes? The vintage documentaries? The Holiday Special? A feature on Lazy Padawan and the PTAS crying as people overflow second hand DVD shops with their 2011 Blu-Rays?
I was possibly going to get Revenge of the Sith Steelbook, but I put it off. I didn’t want my first Star Wars Blu-Ray to be a Prequel. Oh well.
Still available from best buy… For now
Edit : also,why, lol
Because it doesn’t completely suck ass. I was trying to get it for under $10, but put more time into my BW Classic Doctor Who DVDs.
I was possibly going to get Revenge of the Sith Steelbook, but I put it off. I didn’t want my first Star Wars Blu-Ray to be a Prequel. Oh well.
They might’ve been a last minute thing since they couldn’t release what was originally intended for that time.
Maybe.
Hopefully the covers for the 4K OOT will reflect the original poster art and not the horrible steelbook cases. Though I would love a steelbook release to go with my TFA and eventual Rogue One blu-rays. This does leave Phantom Menace as a possible release later on, but Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith will be forever stuck at 1080p and be even more disconnected from the good movies.
I wear glasses so I never go to 3D movies, I end up looking like a twit wearing them over my glasses and I get a headache from the double lenses.
I never really thought about the fact that Tarkin knows who Darth Vader actually is and he probably knows that the entire galaxy is run by a Sith Lord.
In the Tarkin book, he has his suspicions about Vader but doesn’t have confirmation.
Apparently in the new canon, very few people know the Emperor is a force user. If he is forced to use his powers- there are no witnesses or survivors.
I could take limited CGI to write out Leia if they can’t do it with the footage they have. It wouldn’t be ideal but no one ever wanted to be here- they all wanted Carrie Fisher to be able to close out the Leia character.
Any plans to kill off Luke won’t happen now.
The 1997 SE at least had proper color correction- so something along the lines of that would be good. If Disney era Lucasfilm pushed a release back two years, we might be ok. The 2004 master was done in a total rush.
Could this possibly be a good thing? A sign that Harmy’s Despecialized might no longer be needed?
I was reading Lords of the Sith and why is it that the EU authors have the tendency to make Vader a whiny emo bitch inside? He does some cool things in the book, but then you have passages of him moaning- and this was one of the better ones.
Disney seems to treat Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar like this: “Make money and we will let you get on with it.” So far TFA and Rogue One have been very successful in doing so with the box office and merchandise sales. Kennedy will be allowed to do as she sees fit as long as she doesn’t oversee a Tomorrowland-size bomb.
If the SE is a dupe neg and the original is untouched, it has 18-20 more years of degrading that they would have to fix. Or the pieces cut out of the neg to create the SE (even now that sickens me) would probably have needed a lot of work. Empire probably has the same fading issues, and hopefully Jedi was relatively easy.
The good news buried in that Gareth Edwards Rogue One article is that the negative of all the unused negative was just fine, and usable to boot.
The “unused negative”, what do you mean by this?
The camera negatives from the filming of Star Wars still exist, and have not been digitized as of a year or two ago. Gareth Edwards saw them at the Lucasfilm archive.
That dupe neg talk was just speculation on Robert A Harris’ part. I’m pretty sure we know for a fact that George had the changes cut directly into the o-neg. RAH is correct, though, that the o-neg is not needed for an amazing OOT restoration.
Now that it’s Disney’s money to spend on such a project and not GL’s, I’d say the chances are much greater. George even changed his tune from “my original vision” to “it’s too expensive right now” not long before selling the company. I honestly don’t think it would bother him if the remastered original were packaged with a remastered SE.
Nope, lets leave the SE perpetually at 1080p in accordance with Lucas’ “vision.”
I’m not disagreeing, but how is that any different than just about every Marvel movie, or blockbuster in general made in the past five years? If we’re only talking about effects, isn’t it a bit asinine to complain endlessly about Prequel blue screening and then pay it no mind in just about every other modern film? You could argue it looks better now, but if it didn’t look better a decade later I’d be worried.
Plenty of the OT’s effects look rubbish by today’s standards (ROTJ sail barge scene springs to mind), but they’re hardly a case for blue screen being bad, as they shouldn’t be.
The difference is Marvel movies had some great directors and the Prequels had tired sit in a chair and drink coffee Lucas. That and the last two were filmed on primitive camera and will continue to look more and more dated.
If the SE is a dupe neg and the original is untouched, it has 18-20 more years of degrading that they would have to fix. Or the pieces cut out of the neg to create the SE (even now that sickens me) would probably have needed a lot of work. Empire probably has the same fading issues, and hopefully Jedi was relatively easy.
I’ve always said that the biggest fault of the Prequels is that is doesn’t spend enough time on Obi-Wan and Anakin’s friendship: so you don’t care when it falls apart in Revenge.
Did anything ever come of Mike Verta meeting with Lucasfilm about his 4K Scan/Restoration?
JarHead413 said:
I don’t know how much time the DS needs between shots. Might be a day to recharge that thing
That certainly was not the case in ROTJ, but who knows, maybe technology advanced in four years from “takes a day to recharge” to “takes moments to recharge even when the darn thing is only halfway built.” True, this is a universe that had no significant technological development for thousands of years, but you never know.
Death Star 1 took 1 day to recharge Death star II took 3 minutes
Death Star II was also only firing at the Mon Cal Starcruisers. Not as much energy used.
Rian has almost a year before the next one comes out. There is time to really think it through.
Poor Gary. His Mommy isn’t there anymore. I hope Debbie Reynolds or Billie takes good care of him.
Fuck off and die 2016.
RIP Carrie Fisher.
These rumors just keep flying, but still nothing concrete. I’m just finding it hard to get my damned hopes up. I’d download Harmy, but I’m scared of getting arrested.
You wont get arrested. The person who shared it would be more likely to get arrested. I’ve downloaded a ton of torrents over the years and never had an issue.
The good thing is Carrie can afford the best of care from the best doctors.
Fuck off 2016. You can’t take Princess Leia as well.
Rogue One will probably be on blu-ray in April. Releasing Star Wars in a 40th Anniversary edition in May would be great cross promotion. You have the film that Rogue One leads to. You have the original version, not seen in years and you can stick a trailer for Episode 8 on it to add to the excitement. It would be a win.