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[Ar-Pharazon]

-- heck, Disney traded Al Michaels to NBC Universal in exchange for all of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons that Walt produced --

Best...trade...ever

As far as the Lucas extras, most of those are scenes he wanted in the first place, but couldn't pull off with 1977 FX, they don't bother me that much...and I did see the original in the theater in 1977, so I'm not a child of the FX era.

 

[Venardhi]

Greatness is built out of constraints and restraint. If Lucas thought the Jabba's palace intro needed a song and dance number in '83 he could have done it then. The badness of it isn't due to the effects used to accomplish it.

 

[Timby]

Fox is already taking that cut on the current releases though, so what is the downside for Disney?

The unaltered A New Hope is registered under a different copyright from the Special Edition. Disney literally can't release it without Fox's permission.

 

[Set Harth]

If Lucas thought the Jabba's palace intro needed a song and dance number in '83 he could have done it then.

 

[MANT!]

.... If Lucas thought the Jabba's palace intro needed a song and dance number in '83 he could have done it then. .

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[Ithekro]

I seem to recall that was an 80's style exercise workout song translated into Huttese.

 

[Venardhi]

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The original is simply part of the scene. The new version makes a big deal about itself and becomes the central focus. There is a world of difference in how they are featured.

 

[Venardhi]

The unaltered A New Hope is registered under a different copyright from the Special Edition. Disney literally can't release it without Fox's permission.

Does that leave a window open for them to take the original print, clean up some matte boxes and backgrounds and release it under a 3rd "Definitive Edition" or some such?

 

[mos6507]

Money talks and sh*t walks. That's how The Hobbit eventually got made despite the convoluted legal ownership of the film rights. If making a "mildly restored" special edition were seen as a good way to milk a lot more money out of the OT, then odds are a deal can be struck.