“The question is whether it will be a worthy release. “Disney is quite likely to release the originals eventually,” he futurecasts. The aforementioned disclaimer also encourages viewers to report any copy of a fan-edit offered for sale.ĭespite the blood, sweat and midichlorians he’s poured into this multi-year project - currently in version 2.5 - Harmy expects that his Despecialized Editions will one day be rendered obsolete. In fact, anyone wanting to get their hands on the Despecialized Edition must be an owner of the 2011 Blu-ray set. So far, he’s been able to pursue this passion project without any legal interference from Lucasfilm, perhaps because he’s careful to label his work as preservation for historical purposes-that’s part of the official disclaimer that he tags on all of his projects-and maybe due to the fact that he isn’t seeking to profit from his labors. To create the Despecialized Editions of Episodes IV-VI, Harmy reconstructed each of the films from a variety of different sources, some readily available (the 2011 Blu-rays, as well as an earlier 2006 DVD box set that offered bonus discs with bare-bones transfers of the untouched trilogy from the bygone laserdisc age of 1993) - and others much less so (including a rare 16mm film transfer, as well as custom-designed mattes taken from both 35mm and 70mm film cell scans). “I can happily tell you that he got introduced to the adventures of Luke Skywalker at the age of five, using the Despecialized Edition and he loved it.” “At the time I stared working on the Despecialized Edition, my brother was 3 and I wanted to show him the original versions when he was old enough,” he tells Yahoo Movies via email. These problems got to the point that Harmy felt he couldn’t share the beloved movies with his younger brother. At least until the next round of rumors resurface. For the time being, it’s probably best to refile this news under “Wishful Thinking”. And the first Star Wars film (Episode IV) will remain part of the Fox catalog until the end of time - or Disney releases Song of the South in high-def.Īnd while a lucrative deal between the two studios could theoretically be reached, there are other factors that might gum up the works, ranging from Lucas’s staunch, stubborn opposition to the quality and availability of the materials any potential restoration team would be working from. The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi (a/k/a Episodes V and VI) are the property of 20th Century Fox, and won’t revert to Lucasfilm until 2020.
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The site claimed to have confirmed through “two independent reliable sources” that Disney (the new owners of the franchise) had finally cleared the many hurdles - including series creator George Lucas’s own campaign to wipe out every copy of those beloved early versions - in making this geek Holy Grail a reality.īut the site’s scoop was almost immediately debunked from other knowledgeable sources like Badass Digest, which reiterated the small detail that Lucasfilm (now part of the House of Mouse) does not even own the rights to the original trilogy. Over the weekend, an item posted on gave fans a new hope. Rumors about the original, pre-Special Edition Star Wars trilogy finally arriving on DVD and Blu-ray are as regular as the nightly twin sunset on Tatooine.
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