Please restore a vandalized cinematic treasure…

All this to say, let’s hope it’s just the start of the cleanup of the rest of the movies to make ’em look better than ever and hopefully, fans will finally get the chance to choose between the original versions and Lucas’ bedazzled cuts.

Hey @chuckkahn:disqus Just found the Original Theatre list – thought I’d share :
http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2015/10/star-wars-movie-marathon-details.html

The proper tag line would be “Greedo didn’t shoot” or the more dramatic sounding but kind of nonsensical “Greedo never shot”. I mean, I’m sure the guy shot at least once, it would be weird for a gun owner to never have shot it before. But yeah.

“Han just shot” won’t sell as many t-shirts.

Greedo DIDN’T shoot. Han shot. Not first. He just shot.

The tickets were readily available in my area (Toronto) on the day after The Force Awakens tickets went on sale. (People were tweeting Cineplex furiously when the Marathon tickets didn’t appear alongside the episode 7 ticket sales that night.) I was just happy to have tickets for episode 7 so I didn’t look into getting additional tickets for the episode 1-6 screening.

I know- right? And perhaps it was done on the low down. This event was NOT heavily advertised. You really had to go the extra mile to get these tickets. I interview people in the theatre who came from up 5 hours away to witness this ( this theatre was the 2 1/2 hours from me.) Perhaps Disney struct a deal w/ Fox for this one time only showing — in which Disney was NOT allowed by contract to advertise this event on TV- only on the web? All I know is that tickets sold for this event – counted for the boxoffice numbers for The Force Awakens – as in – the ticket holder was paying $50bucks for TFA Ticket – and getting to view the two other Trilogy’s for free .
I do NOT know what the background story is – other than to say I remember seeing that Disney ( could have been just an internet rumor ? ) announced in early 2016 that they were planning of releasing the Original trilogy back to theatres again before the release of Rogue One – and while a wide release Never Happened – The small independant Alamo Drafthouse theatre chain DID present The Original Trilogy again @ a One Day Only Event @ only 3 of their Theatre locations on Sat. August 25th and advertised this as “an incredibly rare digital screenings of the Special Edition versions of A NEW HOPE, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and THE RETURN OF THE JEDI. While I wasn’t there to witness this moment – they did post this picture to their FB page. Here’s the link to that Event: https://drafthouse.com/event/star-wars

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3d1ad3ae52cfb4431438f7d7134a49aa7121059558f6d8af618afc321101a1be.jpg

Well the 4K version is rumoured to have been done back in 2012. I wish theatres had advertised that they were screening a 4K restoration. I would have liked to have seen it.

http://thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/post/2014/07/16/The-Star-Wars-Trilogy-has-a-New-Official-Master-in-4K

Woody Harrelson will shoot first.

Never thought of it like that before – but yeah you are right – it does. Great point.

@chuckkahn:disqus Fair enough. You may (?) be correct.For the record- I do not know @ what resolution the 35mm film prints ( from the Special Edition) were sourced from for this event. However, as a former IA certified projectionist of 7 years – I have built and witnessed thousands of 35mm prints – and I even wrote a quality control program for Lucasfilm’s THX TAP Dept- and they even adopted some of my idea’s in their guideline in 1999. I did see the Special Edition of A New Hope in 35mm in 1997 over a dozen times and Empire twice. This transfer was the 1st time the Original Trilogy was presented in Digital. I can stated for the record- It was the absolute cleanest – sharpest image I’ve ever witnessed of the Trilogy. I was so impressed – that during the intermission between Ep. VI:RotJ & Ep. VII:TFA I when over and spoke to the projectionist ( he opened the glass window in front of the projector when I taped on it ) and asked him if he knew if this was a 4K transfer? He stated that he did not know the answer to that. However- he was able to say – that the file sizes on the drive that contained the Original Trilogy were larger for each movie “by a mile” over Ep.VII – which was Not only 4K – it was also in Digital 3D. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2fd4439df69b2c63b66b72b291d714ff940957ce143d461ea6bdcc2bf6e42a1f.jpg

Just because the theatre has a Sony 4K projector doesn’t mean that the movie was sourced from a 4K master.

Nothing in that poster says “4K restoration”

@therightclique – IT’s TRUE ! How the hell did ANYONE MISS THIS? It was a ONE DAY EVENT in very limited – select markets. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/841351e42c4c200e30240f879f562060c3296af0ea8ade127968f8d08237d4b4.jpg

In about 100 theatres – One Day Only – on the day of the premier of Episode VII. You had to buy a pass for all 7 films for $50bucks. I saw it in Sony 4K Digital @ Regal Cinemas Stonecrest at Piper Glen 22 & IMAX in North Carolina. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/841351e42c4c200e30240f879f562060c3296af0ea8ade127968f8d08237d4b4.jpg

Although adding some variations of Stormtroopers from Rogue One and KX droids would make movies more intergrated.

But GL already allowed the non-SE versions to be sold on DVD (albeit in crummy non-anamorphic transfers from 1993) so he’s not so dead-set against it. And now it would be Disney’s expense to restore the originals properly, not his.

I wouldn’t miss the Ep.V changes (interrupting our heroes escape from Cloud City with Vader heading to the Executor with obvious ROTJ footage of him landing, Slave I following the Falcon some more, windows on the Cloud City hallways).

– Han shoots first
– No Jabba in Ep IV
– No stupid droids and creatures in Mos Eisley getting in the way of everything
– Keep Death Star Additions
– Keep the extra X-Wings in Death Star Battle
– Keep changes made to Ep. V (of which there were very few)
– Remove the extra song in Jabba’s Palace in Ep VI
– Remove Darth’s NO in Ep VI

That’s about it, the rest of the changes can stay. I’m even ok with Young Anakin at the end of ROTJ.

Help up, Disney. You’re our only hope…

They’ve already altered the film. Pray they don’t alter it any further.