Star Wars 40th anniversary

I know its abit early to get the party started but after watching Rogue One everyone went home and watched ANH. I came across this

Could 2017 finally see a restored 4K release of Star Wars: A New Hope, in time for its 40th anniversary? A new clue has surfaced...

"On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic and John Knowles, our supervisor, he said that they’ve got a brand new 4K restoration print of A New Hope – it had literally just been finished. He suggested we sit and watch it."

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/star-wars/260818/star-wars-a-new-hope-4k-restoration-2017-re-release

There is hope that one day we might see the Star Wars unaltered Trilogy.

I'll join you in that hope.

It's surely only a matter of time.

I've got the original theatrical cuts for both ESB and ROTJ.

For ANH I have the Digitally remastered but pre-special edition version.

All on DVD.

But... no blu ray.

And the official DVD releases of the theatrical are in SD... not great quality.

You're right all 3 are not digitally remastered versions. I guess the digitally remastered pre-special editions died on VHS.

Yes. I still have those. They looked great!

More news on the unaltered Star Wars trilogy

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/022317-1600

Here's hoping...

it appears that there is little chance of the original 1977 Star Wars being released on any home video format in 2017. 🙁

We have essentially confirmed that Disney's current 4K scan of the film is the most recent revised version (essentially the latest special edition), not the original theatrical edition.

http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/022417-0100

Doesn't say much. There are still negatives around.

Would be a lovely present from Disney: an original theatrical 4K blu ray disc set with original colour grading... ah... I can only dream.

Originally posted by queeq
Doesn't say much. There are still negatives around.

Would be a lovely present from Disney: an original theatrical 4K blu ray disc set with original colour grading... ah... I can only dream.

They did say not the original theatrical edition. in the post

In the post indeed.