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Lucasfilm Creates A 4K Ultra-HD Restoration of the Original 'Star Wars' (4k.com)
An anonymous reader quotes 4K.com:
When the first ever of the Star Wars films, "A New Hope" turns 40 in 2017, millions of dedicated fans of the immensely popular franchise might get a very unique treat in the form of a limited theater screening in beautifully restored form with theatrical 4K resolution of the first movie released in the series. According to recent comments made by Rogue One director Gareth Edwards, a 4K restoration of Star Wars Episode IV "A New Hope" does indeed exist and now the only real question is whether or not the cleaned up and sharpened version of the movie will be hitting the big screen once again.
White it's release status is unknown, the ultra-high definition footage is said to be spectacular. In the interview, Edwards says "You can't watch it without getting carried away... It just turns you into a child."
White it's release status is unknown, the ultra-high definition footage is said to be spectacular. In the interview, Edwards says "You can't watch it without getting carried away... It just turns you into a child."
episode 4 was surprisingly good in resurrecting the franchise, considering how appallingly bad episodes 2 and 3 were. :-)
The best mindfuck would be remaking Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith with Jar Jar Binks as a Sith Lord
Oh no, you had to say that? Now I'm doomed to keep hearing ...
Meesa no kill your father, Luke. Meesa is your father.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
"Uncle George never told you what happened to the original theatrical release version"
"He told me enough. He told me it was destroyed"
"No. I am the original version."
"Noooooooooo! that's not true.....that impossible!"
"Search your archives for you know it is true!"
Edit: Captcha> Monetary
I know, it was almost like Greedo was a Stormtrooper without uniform.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"unique" is a binary term. Something is either unique or not unique. There are no "degrees" of uniqueness.
That is a somewhat unique perspective.
Well the thing was Lucas was very inexperienced as a director but by the time episode 4, "A new hope" rolled around Lucas had finally learned to trust the actors and stop redoing scenes til the emotion was drained from them. And then for episode 5 Lucas handed the reigns to another experienced character director and focused on producing.
Also, the actors chosen for episodes 1-3 were terrible so when Lucasfilm decided to reboot series with fresh new actors as of episode 4 they did a much better job, for example picking unknown actors who had a lot of chemistry with each other. The decision to go with puppets for Yoda was a big step up from the poor CGI they had used for him in the first 3 films.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.