Star Wars
04-11-19, 02:18 PM
#4351
Re: Star Wars
RUMOR:
Exclusive: Disney are working on a 4K Blu-ray box set for Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Exclusive: Disney are working on a 4K Blu-ray box set for Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
04-11-19, 02:35 PM
#4352
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
I wonder if Disney+ will stream the SW films in 4K? If so, I'd probably only every buy the OT. I'd never buy a complete set of films that included the PT.
04-11-19, 02:43 PM
#4353
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
I'd like just individual releases personally. I've held off on buying Star Wars on Blu-ray so far so I'll wait longer if need be. Still holding to only buying the unaltered Original Trilogy as well. If that isn't an option I'll find alternate methods of viewing them.
04-11-19, 02:45 PM
#4354
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
RUMOR:
Exclusive: Disney are working on a 4K Blu-ray box set for Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Exclusive: Disney are working on a 4K Blu-ray box set for Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
04-11-19, 05:10 PM
#4355
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
Yeah, this is so expected, I'd hardly consider it a rumor.
I've got the first Blu box of the 6 movies, but the transfers have some issues and there's tons of extras still in the vaults.
So, yeah, originals? That's the real question.
Though what I would really love in addition to the original version of the Holy Trilogy, would be versions that added scenes like the Biggs footage or Luke building his new lightsaber from ROTJ. Like, if they had made extended TV versions back in the 80s (like the Superman films or Dune). That would really get me excited.
I've got the first Blu box of the 6 movies, but the transfers have some issues and there's tons of extras still in the vaults.
So, yeah, originals? That's the real question.
Though what I would really love in addition to the original version of the Holy Trilogy, would be versions that added scenes like the Biggs footage or Luke building his new lightsaber from ROTJ. Like, if they had made extended TV versions back in the 80s (like the Superman films or Dune). That would really get me excited.
04-11-19, 07:56 PM
#4356
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
Though what I would really love in addition to the original version of the Holy Trilogy, would be versions that added scenes like the Biggs footage or Luke building his new lightsaber from ROTJ. Like, if they had made extended TV versions back in the 80s (like the Superman films or Dune). That would really get me excited.
04-12-19, 10:35 AM
#4358
DVD Talk Reviewer
04-12-19, 10:39 AM
#4359
DVD Talk Legend
04-12-19, 01:32 PM
#4360
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
RUMOR:
Exclusive: Disney are working on a 4K Blu-ray box set for Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Exclusive: Disney are working on a 4K Blu-ray box set for Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
I'll believe it when I have the disc in my hand. Not one moment before.
04-12-19, 01:39 PM
#4361
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Star Wars
This rumor is barely any different from rumors of an original trilogy restoration that went around last year. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that....
I'll believe it when I have the disc in my hand. Not one moment before.
I'll believe it when I have the disc in my hand. Not one moment before.
04-12-19, 01:54 PM
#4362
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
I never picked up the BR versions. My son took the DVD's when he moved out. I would be interested in the OT in 4K. Although I found them entertaining, I'm not a huge fanboy. If they never come out I just won't buy them.
04-15-19, 06:21 AM
#4364
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
I doubt very much that we're going to see an original trilogy release on 4K in 2020. What I DO think we'll get in 2020 is a boxed set for all three of the NEW films - with both The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker joining The Last Jedi on 4K.
04-15-19, 06:39 AM
#4365
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
https://lwlies.com/interviews/gareth...ar-wars-story/
On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic and John Knoll, our supervisor, he said that they’ve got a brand new 4K restoration print of A New Hope – it had literally just been finished.
04-15-19, 09:05 AM
#4366
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
TPM was shot on film and finished digitally so it can be done in 4K but AOTC and ROTS were shot with 1080p digital cameras so that’s a bottleneck. Scenes that had a lot of digital effects could theoretically be rerendered at a higher resolution but the live action stuff would have to be upconverted.
04-15-19, 09:50 AM
#4367
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
TPM was shot on film and finished digitally so it can be done in 4K but AOTC and ROTS were shot with 1080p digital cameras so that’s a bottleneck. Scenes that had a lot of digital effects could theoretically be rerendered at a higher resolution but the live action stuff would have to be upconverted.
04-15-19, 09:54 AM
#4368
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
What reason do you have to doubt UHD versions of the OT? A 4K version of A New Hope has been in the works since at least 2016:
https://lwlies.com/interviews/gareth...ar-wars-story/
https://lwlies.com/interviews/gareth...ar-wars-story/
Kathleen Kennedy has stated that restorations of the original theatrical versions will never happen:
https://www.nme.com/news/film/lucasf...mpered-2059039
04-15-19, 10:57 AM
#4369
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
That article above with Kennedy's quote about never touching the originals reads to me more like she wouln't make further changes to the films. Different than saying they'll never be restored to their theatrical releases. I still somehow don't think we'll see the originals but would love if we did.
04-15-19, 11:02 AM
#4370
DVD Talk Legend & 2021 TOTY Winner
Re: Star Wars
That article above with Kennedy's quote about never touching the originals reads to me more like she wouln't make further changes to the films. Different than saying they'll never be restored to their theatrical releases. I still somehow don't think we'll see the originals but would love if we did.
04-15-19, 11:16 AM
#4371
DVD Talk Reviewer
Re: Star Wars
The closer the world moves to digital formats above physical media, the less interested people will become in a studio release of the unaltered originals.
Options are out there. It's now or never ... from a certain point of view.
Options are out there. It's now or never ... from a certain point of view.
04-15-19, 11:23 AM
#4372
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
The podcast interview in question:
Ep 131.3 : Star Wars Celebration Orlando Day 2 ? The Last Jedi cast interviews with Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Rian Johnson & Kathleen Kennedy ? Steele Wars : Star Wars Chat.
At about the 16:09 mark is the question. The interviewer asks whether the final cuts of "George's" films would be "altered over time." Kennedy's response: "I wouldn't touch those, are you kidding?"
I think it's a poorly phrased question, since it asks about "altering" films instead of "restoring" films, and it doesn't pin-point which films exactly; Kennedy may have thought the question was about arbitrary changes to all the earlier films, including the prequels.
The question immediately preceding it, at 15:33 is about the transition to Disney and whether there's a "contractual obligation that the films are locked into their current form." Kennedy's answer is as if she understood him to be asking about Disney influencing the new films in any way. Again, I think this question was poorly phrased, and I think Kathleen Kennedy just wasn't in the "head space" of the questions being in regard to restoring the original versions of the original trilogy at all.
Ep 131.3 : Star Wars Celebration Orlando Day 2 ? The Last Jedi cast interviews with Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Rian Johnson & Kathleen Kennedy ? Steele Wars : Star Wars Chat.
At about the 16:09 mark is the question. The interviewer asks whether the final cuts of "George's" films would be "altered over time." Kennedy's response: "I wouldn't touch those, are you kidding?"
I think it's a poorly phrased question, since it asks about "altering" films instead of "restoring" films, and it doesn't pin-point which films exactly; Kennedy may have thought the question was about arbitrary changes to all the earlier films, including the prequels.
The question immediately preceding it, at 15:33 is about the transition to Disney and whether there's a "contractual obligation that the films are locked into their current form." Kennedy's answer is as if she understood him to be asking about Disney influencing the new films in any way. Again, I think this question was poorly phrased, and I think Kathleen Kennedy just wasn't in the "head space" of the questions being in regard to restoring the original versions of the original trilogy at all.
04-15-19, 11:27 AM
#4373
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
If there's not space on the discs, maybe Disney will include the original cuts as digital extras.
04-15-19, 12:44 PM
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Re: Star Wars
04-15-19, 01:49 PM
#4375
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Star Wars
Not that it changes your greater point, but the extended Grindelwald is on-disc overseas (such as the UK). I'm not sure why the U.S. got the short end of the stick, but apparently there are "DELETED SCENE" overlays even within the extended cut, and that makes my skin crawl to the point that I don't miss it.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fanta...lu-ray/222912/
Rewind @ www.dvdcompare.net - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Blu-ray) (2018)
My DeadPool 2 Super Duper Cut digital copy includes both original and extended cuts, but both are available on disc as well.
I know there's other films where multiple cuts are available digitally, but as different "titles." I've got both theatrical and extended cut version of LOTR, The Hobbit, Harry Potter 1 & 2, and Aliens, for example. I have the Unrated version only of a few films like Dawn of the Dead & Miami Vice, and the Director's Cut only of films like Das Boot and Watchmen.