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I've been searching for information on the Korean BD since reading your post, and haven't found any confirmation, either way.
Regardless, this sounds like a wonderful project, IcePrick. Have only ever seen the standard cut, but have heard great things about the festival cut.
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Fantastic that someone is working in this again. I've put off revisiting it for years since there are so many versions and edits and not a single good transfer as usual for a Woo classic.
All the stories I had heard seem to indicate the boardroom was first and the distributors wanted a bigger climax and so the car chase finale was created. While it has a nice and more epic ending quality the shorter scene fits far better with the overall tone and certainly is better thematically.
I've also heard the stories that essentially Woo went off and did this film and Hark did ABT 3. The fact that they both deal with similar elements and derive from a project of some sort instigated by the pair before they split would indicate that as being true. Oh crap ABT3 was really bad. I came to it after discovering 1 and 2 and being blown away...
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Did anybody verify if the Korean Blu is a HD scan?
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Have you made any more progress with this?
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Has there been any progress on this? I'd love to know since I want to see my favourite movie in HD glory