Sooo, Lucas has always maintained that the reason we couldn't get an HD version of the original cut because the negative were destroyed in the making of the Special Editions.
now I've personally never believed this, and surely before you do anything once it's digitised, you back it up, you take another copy, you take it off site.. you make it safe, basic disaster recovery stuff, can't imagine they're not doing that at Lucasfilm.
Read something today that suggests that Gareth Edwards may have let the cat out of the bag that there is still a chance of getting it.
http://epicstream.com/news/Heres-How-Rogue-One-Acquired-Unseen-Star-Wars-Footage
Though of course this could be utter nonsense, aren't film negatives supposed to be stored in environmentally controlled conditions, unless they got them out specifically for him??
now I've personally never believed this, and surely before you do anything once it's digitised, you back it up, you take another copy, you take it off site.. you make it safe, basic disaster recovery stuff, can't imagine they're not doing that at Lucasfilm.
Read something today that suggests that Gareth Edwards may have let the cat out of the bag that there is still a chance of getting it.
http://epicstream.com/news/Heres-How-Rogue-One-Acquired-Unseen-Star-Wars-Footage
Though of course this could be utter nonsense, aren't film negatives supposed to be stored in environmentally controlled conditions, unless they got them out specifically for him??