For anyone wondering at what we can expect, heres a video analysing the early (intentionally) leaked frames by the expert himself.
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Every poster they make nowadays is unfathomably lame compared to what was made back in the day.
Being born the same year Star Wars was released, seeing the 50th Anniversary poster nearly broke my brain. How is it (and I) nearly 50 years old? Does not compute
Will they show the original ending for EP 6 without prequels Anakin?
Sounds like there's a good chance of that given what we're seeing with the restoration leaks. Some of the shots shown were shots that would have been completely replaced in the special editions.
More importantly, will Jabba the Hutt be restored to his original form of a fat guy in a heavy coat?
Which shitty remaster will it be though?
A new one true to the original theatrical. If you know anything about the online DIY remaster community around the original trilogy they've gone through the stills that have been leaked by Disney and they are of a quality previously unseen.
So they doing their own 4K77? This is the best possible outcome. I hope they market it well.
Seems they're claiming it's some original reels. Obviously no way to confirm that until release, though.
They have leaked remastered frames already and the De-specialized editions community has confirmed they must be from original reels, no other sources have ever been as high a quality.
That video seems to be nearly a year old, and as he said himself at the end, who knows what they're gonna add to the final release. Maybe they have the reels, but that doesn't mean that's what we'll get to see.
Came here to say this. Since George claims the originals are gone.
Edit: Just stay home and watch this and don't give Disney your time or money.
https://archive.org/download/star-wars-1977-despecialized-720p.x-264.-ac-3.5.1
The poster says Star Wars. No mention of Episode IV.
Did you know that the "Episode IV: A New Hope" - header in the iconic scrolling text was added later? The original theatrical release did not have this at all, it was simply named "Star Wars".
Which is interesting, because I thought part of Disney's deal to buy it included making sure the new fucked with versions were the only ones they'd show...
50th anniversary!?!?? I saw it at the movies when it came out. But that'd make me... ancient. No. 30th is the most I can agree to.
I swear to the chaos gods, if this is just the version Lucas "remastered"...
Are they still ignoring physics there?
My brain is cooked. For a split second Luke's face looks like Felon Melon. Please send help.
This poster is shit tho? There's so much wrong with it.
The xwings noses are too short. Why did they put some shit looking boxes in the bottom right and not anything meaningful? Why have they hidden the land speeder behind the house. The lighting on Han's face is a different direction from everyone else. There's dead space all along the middle section. Make the correlian corvette and star destroyer bigger. Why are Leia's wrists so thin. Why are r2 and c3po so fucking small?. Why is the falcon so small? They used the signature star shape from the original poster and made it soe tiny little nothing in the top right.
It would not surprise me in the slightest to find out this was AI made and then someone went over it to tidy it up. Its crap.
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