No CGI Jabba the Hutt.
Only in one city in the world?
Please don’t let it be in the US, please don’t let it be the US…
London?! Hot pukka pies, that’s totally hench!
Edit: Also looks like an amazing line up for the Film on Film festival. Peak celebration of films, in the medium of film.
There is no original version of Star Wars. G Lucas started changing theatre’s. movie while it was still in theatres. He sent an updated sound cut in theatres 90 days after it released.
So…the one that ran for those 90 days is the original?
You would think, but no. Two versions of that movie shipped to theatres. Some already had a new soundtrack.
Also, if the Star Wars movie you saw had Episode IV A New Hope … you have not actually seen the original as that movie was just “Star Wars”.
Once had a discussion with some coworkers that legit didn’t know the original cut had no Jabba. They were so certain that they actually almost had me convinced for a moment.
George Lucas is one of a handful of people on the planet where you can accurately say “They ruined my childhood.”
Like, if you’re a massive fan of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but hate the most recent incarnation, you can still go back and watch the original. Lucas has gone out of his way to make that more difficult for Star Wars fans. It’s an impressive level of aggression and back-stabbery for the people who made him wealthy to begin with.
Original cut of Ep4 only, right? Because some of the others did have Jabba.
E: oh, I see. Yes. ‘Star Wars’, as in Ep4. Cool. Yes. No Jabba.
There’s only one StarWars ma’am and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a CG Dinosaur.
No-one out-pizza’s the hut!
What kind of Mandela effect shit is this?
I’ve spent more time than I would like to admit trying to fact check this. I swear when the special editions came out one of the behind the scenes was about restoring the scene with the fur coat Jabba that had appeared in the first pre-title-crawl version. Now all I can find are references to it being rereleased at least 4 times before the special edition but nothing about scene edits.
As I understand it the original jabba scene where never in any release. It was recorded but scraped during editing.
I remember they had to edit solo going up as he walked around to simulate him going over his snail tail
Which was a pretty dumb edit because Jabba didn’t seem like the kind of guy that would let Solo get away with stepping on him. And Solo would have also known that and not casually stepped on his tail.
Not to mention Jabba also didn’t seem like the kind of guy to meet with a smuggler he had a bounty on alone in a random ship bay. Even if Solo wouldn’t have been willing to just shoot his debt and bounty away, Jabba couldn’t have been sure about it and Solo already wasted a bounty hunter that caught up to him.
Would have been better to just edit the audio to make the other guy a representative of Jabba instead of sticking to the “this is Jabba but filmed before we decided to make him an alien slug so now we need to make it look like Jabba”. Even without the tail step, he looks ridiculous walking around like that compared to the massive thing he was just a year or so later, like he’s Jabba’s younger brother or nephew.
Wait. No jabba at all?
We don’t see him until Return of the Jedi.
The remaster shoved in a stupid CGI scene of him in A New Hope.
None at all. They originally filmed the scene with an actor in a big fur coat, but they cut it out because it’s kind of redundant - we don’t learn anything about Han that the earlier scene with Greedo doesn’t teach us in a more interesting way. Then they decided that Jabba would be a giant slug man some time in between 1977 and 1983.
Han shot first.
Edit: actually read the article
Han shot.
“I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be.”
And we want it to be the way we want it to be, and we are the ones who put money in your pocket.
He should be allowed to fulfill his vision. But he shouldn’t take away the one that people like.
I’m noticing that, at least in AMC through Fathom Events, they’ve been showing one Star Wars movie per year. Tickets for Star Wars Episode III are on sale now, so I wonder if next year this will hit the States.
I also wonder how this will compare to existing fan restorations that are available online, and if they’ll release some sort of special edition 4K Blu-Ray or something with this on it.
Is this showing 4k77?
Edit: no, looks like they’re showing the technicolor film directly from the BFI National Archive. Similar to the one 4k77 was scanned from.
Reading the article it seems like they’re just using a mint condition film reel they’ve been waiting to arrive for awhile
Oh hell yeah. The new versions with cgi additions are when I started to drift from star wars
Only in London 😔
I want to dig out old forum posts where Lucas fans told everyone that Lucas wasn’t lying that there would never be an original release because the original prints were destroyed in the process of making his special editions.
I knew he was a lying fuck, no way in hell the process would destroy the originals unless he was a complete idiot or purposefully did so with the intent to hide history.
As the article says, there are still original distribution prints from 1977 out there, squirreled away in private print collections.
So they might be dragging one of those out for this showing.
As for the original negatives… only Lucas knows.
The true original, without the text crawl?
The original had the crawl, just not the Episode IV - A New Hope part. Source: I saw it in May 1977.
George Lucas in shambles rn
But who’s going to believe that this will be the original original?
London only. Fuck.
London only. Fuck.
Fucking fuck fuck fuck. Damn it.
