Lucas and McCallum checked out this chance and launch from Fox as a strategy to push the boundaries of the know-how they’d use for the prequels. They’d already been pushing boundaries on tv with “The Younger Indiana Jones Chronicles,” however the infusion of cash from Fox allow them to take it to the following stage.
This is McCallum from that very same “Star Wars Insider” interview:
“It grew to become one other wonderful means for us to discover new applied sciences and new results and likewise try to re-master the movies. It grew to become this sort of wacky, and but superb, experiment to try to get the movies again to what he really noticed in his thoughts’s eye as a result of all the things within the “Particular Editions” is what he had written down.
There’s plenty of controversy about sure features of issues that he modified that individuals thought that he was simply attempting to exploit it for cash, however [at] the top of the day, he is a really clear particular person. You get precisely what he’s, and he tells you what it’s, and he reveals you what he did, and he reveals you what he needed, and also you say, “Okay, screw it. Let’s do it.”
And that is what we did.”
For Lucas’ half, he is been constant in that perspective, continually tinkering to raised match his imaginative and prescient for “Star Wars” till he bought the corporate to Disney. In actual fact, you’ll be able to monitor his curiosity in enchancment by watching every totally different launch of the initially deleted Jabba the Hutt scene in “A New Hope.” Every subsequent launch has iterated on the consequences, bettering them with each chunk on the apple.