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Originally Posted by Geoff D
Unfortunately Disnee isn't those studios. And most of those old or obscure movies are coming from indies (Criterion, Arrow, Shout, Kino et al) who have licensed them from the studios, they're not coming from the studios themselves...
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Disney has always had an interesting relationship with Criterion, in that for Disney owned films that are part of the Criterion collection, Criterion produces/authors the sets, but Disney (via Buena Vista) manufactures and distributes them. I'm not sure they're make a Criterion set of Star Wars though.
Disney isn't against including alternate cuts for films though, when they exist, even a cut with limited. The animated Beauty and the Beast Blu-ray has 3 cuts on it, including a workprint cut, although there's some minor issues with the seamless branching on one that made one scene look like how it appeared in another.
I think the likeliest release of the unaltered cuts would be as a bonus feature on a new "Complete Saga" set comprising of episodes 1-9. I don't think they'd ever get a standalone release without the new cuts accompanying them, since Lucas considers the new cuts the "true" version of the films, but they may be able to get away with including them as a "bonus," like the LE DVDs. Also, the price premium on getting people to buy a massive 9 movie set could justify including them as extras.