Except that this isn’t the tech world. The butchering of the films by George Lucas is no different than if Leonardo da Vinci showed up and “updated” the Mona Lisa. Folks who go to see a piece of art want to see the original work, not a version where some clown took a sharpie to the painting (even if said clown is the…

This makes no sense. None of the copyrights to the Star Wars franchise have “expired.” The duration of copyright in the United States is about a century. It hasn’t been 100 years since the first Star Wars film was released.