![]() The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. “The Silver Screen version is without the special editions’ dialogue tweaks, visual polish, and Mos Eisley’s added CGI creatures, and Han naturally shoots first (Atad points out that it’s actually jarring to realize that not only does Han fire first, but Greedo doesn’t shoot at all).”ĮW goes on to talk about how George Lucas has staunchly defended the multiple extended and digitally remastered editions of the originals, going so far as to almost sound belligerent about it in an interview with Today: The special edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. That’s right, the power of the internet at it’s finest, folks. In an article by Entertainment Weekly, we’ve learned that a group calling themselves Team Negative1 spent thousands of dollars several years and painstaking time and effort to restore an old faded print of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope to what some experts are calling the best HD version of the original cut of the film…and then they leaked it online. Cid is the Lando Calrissian of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.Review: Path of Vengeance is a bold, deliciously dark piece of The High Republic.Star Wars: Captain Rex deserves a happy ending (here’s why).Star Wars: 3 best duels of the Prequel Era, ranked.Jedi: Survivor fan-favorite character’s voice actor revealed."I think the more vocal people are about supporting these projects, the better," Verta said. (This comparison video from Verta sums up his issues pretty clearly.) He's so passionate about the issue, that Verta told Movie Mezzanine that he is scheduling a meeting with Disney and 20th Century Fox executives to screen the film and pitch them on the potential of a true restoration. Another unreleased restoration project, by composer Mike Verta, is said to be highest quality version yet, and a significant improvement to the oversaturated colors of the Blu-ray release. With Disney having purchased Lucasfilm, however, fans are hoping for that to change. George Lucas famously vowed that the original cuts would never be released, and that a true restoration would be impossible due to the changes made to the original elements for the Special Edition releases. ![]() The noise is getting louder from fans to see the original films as they were first released, not only as a historical artifact, but because that's the way people first fell in love with them. ![]() (It's the same reason why when you watch digital restorations of old movies certain wipes, transitions, or special effects suddenly leap out as grainier than the rest of the restored footage producing those effects back in the day required compositing images on film, baking in added grain.) But the result is Star Wars as it was when it set the world on fire nearly 40 years ago: Han shoots first, Jabba doesn't show up, and there's not a scrap of intrusive computer-generated imagery to be seen. But given that this was an analog, photochemical procedure, each generation away from that original negative introduced softness and grain into the image, making the source material for this new version softer than the negatives used for official releases. Instead, an intermediary print called an internegative - essentially, a duplicate of the final, color-corrected negative - would be used to strike the release prints that ended up in theaters. That's largely due to the elements used back in the days of film releases, prints wouldn't be struck from the original conformed negative due to the high probability of damage. To combat that damage, the scanned elements underwent digital restoration to stabilize the images, color-correct them, and remove damage and dirt - and while the end result is impressive, it's not going to be what you're used to from a modern Blu-ray release.
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