Per Empire magazine, producer/director John Landis said at a Q&A tonight that Disney will be (eventually) re-releasing theatrical cuts of the original trilogy. It’s an evergreen rumor that pops up regularly, but this variation has a little bit of oomph behind it – Landis apparently heard about it from George Lucas.
Now, whether it actually pans out this time will be another matter…
I thought 20th Century Fox still controlled distribution rights to the OT and PT.
And they’ve already worked with Disney on at least 3 different re-releases. These are businesses, and there’s money to be made.
Ah, but will they put The Shoe back?
They removed the shoe?