Quote:
Originally Posted by BobSimms
Is there something preventing them from doing that?
|
Going back and remaking the entire post-production process of a film from scratch from its rushes you mean? Quite apart from the fact that would cost a six or even seven figure sum to accomplish (and really for why?), most films, even ones made only 10 or 20 years ago, don't have their complete rushes logged and archived anyway. It's rarer that they are kept than they aren't.
More people need to accept the fact that a good decade or more of English language cinema was made as - and can only exist as - 2K DIs. Either film dailies were telecined and the films were made out of those digital files, or (rarer this happened, more an early 2000s thing) films were cut rough on film, then telecined and finished/graded digitally. Something like No Country For Old Men that had a cut negative was an outlier, and there are a huge number of digitally shot films that were captured, edited and finished in 2K. The 2K DIs of this era were good enough for 35mm distribution, good enough for DVD, good enough for HDTV and good enough for Blu-ray. They are good enough now.