Disney Buys LucasFilm; New Star Wars Movie! ........ What? UPDATE: Lucas' Reign of Terror is OVER!

[Crono141]

darkknightkryta said:

Crono141 said:

darkknightkryta said:

Porcupine_I said:
Please please Disney, start exploiting the franchise with bluray releases of the original theatrical versions

You should actually read up on how they made the special editions back in 96.  They don't actually have the 0-negatives anymore, not the ones he made anyways.  They'd have to go hunt down some first gen copy, if any are lying around in good condition.

What are you talking about?  The special editions already did all of the work in restoring the OT.  They just also added in all the crappy "special" material.  You don't think they still have the remastered originals without special edition additions lying on a hard drive somewhere?

They don't.  Lucas actually cut up the 0-negatives and spliced in the special effect shots into the film reel.  It's the reason why the DVD release used the laser disc footage as that was the last time they made a copy from the 0-negatives before someone didn't seal them properly.  They managed to restore most of the negatives, yes, but they cut and replaced part of it with the new special edition footage.  So technically the original technically doesn't exist anymore.

This sounds incredibly unlikely given Lucas's obsession with digital effects even back then.  Did they really make the bonehead decision of destroying the original work when digitizing it would have been the better solution?