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Darth Id said:

That...is why you fail.

Pick up your visual scanning

Darth Id said:

Please do not get your hopes up that this will happen.

The climax of the Con is more likely to be the keynote speaker announcing that Adam from Girls will indeed go shirtless in Episode VII!!!!!!!

Edit: For a little perspective, look at this note regarding the mono soundtrack included in the new Criterion release of A Hard Day's Night.  For a real restoration/recreation of the OT, this same painstaking process would need to be done not just for the soundtrack, but for the entire film and optical effects.  There's no way anyone is doing this in the throes of EPISODE VII hyperventilation

I don't see why a separate team couldn't do it.

AntcuFaalb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Would an OUT blu ray be something they would announce at Comic con?

That would make sense to me. Wasn't SW77 first announced at a convention of some sort?

 The distant past aside, it's the sort of thing that gets announced at ComicCon these days.

AntcuFaalb said:

I think it's fucking amazing that a proper official release isn't being sold after the 10+ years this community has existed.

TEN. YEARS.

-_-

 To be fair, we're sort of a fringe group.

RX-24 said:

Sorry, newbie here. I was just wondering, Adywan, how you plan on handling Adywan's fall, in order to preserve the ESB surprise and in compliance with Ben's statements in ANH. I myself had recently been pondering a plot line of Maul as Kenobi's fallen pupil, who returns and is assumed to be Vader, while Anakin is presumed dead. This led me to thinking about what you might plan on doing. Thanks.

 Given the baddie-of-the-film nature of the prequels, it's not hard to have Obi leave Ani for dead, and we never see Ani again. A new bad guy shows up in the next movie, dressed in black, and Obi lies, saying "Oh yeah! That guy in black! HE killed your dad! Definitely not me!" as a means of helping motivate Luke to fight the Empire and cover his rear end.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Isn't Disney also infamous for all the subpar direct-to-video sequels they made to their classic animated films back in the late '90s-'00s?

 Yes, a practice they specifically halted in 2007: http://www.slashfilm.com/john-lasseter-saves-disney-from-direct-to-dvd-sequels/

team_negative1 said:

 It will be a fascinating story someday once all is said and done, to trace back the genesis of this project, and its development.

Once upon a time there was

a man who wanted to be a poet but he

instead decided to copy a

film from 35mm into the digital age

later

And even then, there's the issue of the Fanfare.

Kathleen Kennedy is in charge now, with Disney over her.

poita said:

That wouldn't offer any protection of any kind in the real world though.

 shhhhhh now go buy the blurays so you can download revisited

I couldn't see anyone making Ep7, and yet here we are. Who knows man, who knows.

Except for the ghosts, those are sound changes, which have little to do with visuals and are easily inserted.

emanswfan said:

More footage from the new restoration at 2:53 on their film restoration demo reel.

 Well, at the very least, it's not the 2011 version. That escape pod hatch is very, very blue.

Comparison w/ 005's comparison: http://i.imgur.com/CezVswp.jpg

Sorry, 005, which is which?

Eh, those lightsaber blades look 2004 to me.

ATMachine said:

I think the most interesting part of this comic is that the writer thought Leia should end up with Luke instead of Han.

 Clearly the writer had read the script of "Star Wars"

Oh my gosh let's not start this again

In Chewie's case, that's because there appears to be one (and only one) shot traced from ANH stills

TheBoost said:

Dear GOD I was hypnotized by that... thing.

I'm stopping all pursuits in my life, including my audio drama and my job and family, and making a fan film based on that.

Can anyone read Chinese?

Anywhere I can read the whole book?

 Click Duracell's link at the end of his post for translations and more!

EDIT: Also all the stormtroopers are Boba Fett

JEDIT: The artist has clearly seen ESB, or at least photos from it.

RETURNOFTHEJEDIT: Be sure to compare panel 91 to this shot from Star Trek - The Motion Picture:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Harmy said:

Well, there will be people (me included) who may want to use this as a source for their own projects and so it is important to have some very high quality release in place - if uploading is a problem, I'm sure you could find someone to send a burned disc to, who would gladly upload it for you - I'd be very happy to do it (I have a 70mbps upload on my connection) but shipping it over-seas may be quite impractical.

Me as well. IIRC, you're in Connecticut. I'm in NYC and my family is in CT. I'm happy to pick it up from you in person, to help the cause.

 Harmy is, in fact, on a different continent from you.

Often cloudy, but temperature never gets low enough for rain?

team_negative1 said:

There should be a variety of release options, but I've noticed in that regardless of the high definition options, there are very few people that prefer the largest file sizes, and formats.

There is a point of diminishing returns.

 True, but archiving the higher resolutions is necessary, and part of good digital archiving is distribution.

Also, different actors.

Could you draw a picture of these?

No, I don't think the universe should only have candy-colored sabers. Too limiting!