No CGI Jabba the Hutt.
Will Han shoot first?
Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades
Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to movies@lemm.ee
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dalekcaan@lemm.ee 1 day ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 18 hours ago
I’ve always loved the pose the dude on the back does
SaltSong@startrek.website 2 days ago
“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.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 21 hours ago
He should be allowed to fulfill his vision. But he shouldn’t take away the one that people like.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 19 hours ago
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!
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 days ago
BenThereDoneThat@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Oh hell yeah. The new versions with cgi additions are when I started to drift from star wars
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Is this showing 4k77?
realcaseyrollins 1 day ago
Reading the article it seems like they're just using a mint condition film reel they've been waiting to arrive for awhile
doug@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Only in London 😔
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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.
zabadoh@ani.social 2 days ago
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.
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 day ago
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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
So…the one that ran for those 90 days is the original?
Wilco@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
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”.
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 2 days ago
George Lucas in shambles rn
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
The true original, without the text crawl?
pelley@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The original had the crawl, just not the Episode IV - A New Hope part. Source: I saw it in May 1977.
zabadoh@ani.social 2 days ago
But who’s going to believe that this will be the original original?
London only. Fuck.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 days ago
London only. Fuck.
Fucking fuck fuck fuck. Damn it.
Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 2 days ago
When Han shoots first some dweebs are gonna clap and cheer.
huf@hexbear.net 2 days ago
one time, my sister told me we should watch the unaltered star wars trilogy. through the magic of two hungarians who speak very good english, i managed to hear that “unaltered” as “anal turd”
i was somewhat puzzled f or a bit there, i gotta admit
realcaseyrollins 1 day ago
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.
ech@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Original cut of Ep4 only, right? Because some of the others did have Jabba.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s only one StarWars ma’am and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a CG Dinosaur.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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.
Mandrilleren@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
As I understand it the original jabba scene where never in any release. It was recorded but scraped during editing.
variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 2 days ago
I remember they had to edit solo going up as he walked around to simulate him going over his snail tail
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Wait. No jabba at all?
moody@lemmings.world 2 days ago
We don’t see him until Return of the Jedi.
The remaster shoved in a stupid CGI scene of him in A New Hope.
Carl@hexbear.net 2 days ago
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.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No-one out-pizza’s the hut!