George Lucas has always been obsessed with updating movies of Star Wars. As the digital effects technology, the creator of this Space Opera He wanted to incorporate it into the footage of the original trilogy, causing intense dissonances when the analog image of the 70s was combined with the latest advances in CGI. Which would not be bad, if at least Lucas had not determined that these revisions were the only and official.
That is, that the succession of reissues of Star Wars They have moved that the primary versions are abandoning the circulation. Lucas believes that each new version was more adjusted to his original vision, and before the question of why he struggled to disappeared the previous ones he answered very sourly in 2004: “The special edition is what I wanted to come out. The other movie It is in VHS For those who want it. ”
“I will not spend money and time to renew it, because for me it no longer exists. This is the movie that I wanted to be. I feel that you would see a movie halfway and you will fall in love with her. But I want it to be like I want it to be, “he insisted.” If they are going to throw stones at me, at least they throw them out for something that I love and not for something that I think is not very good, or at least something that I think It is not finished”
Such is the situation, and that is why it is great news that now collects The Telegraph. It turns out that British Film Institute, In the face of an next festival that organizes in June, they have managed to get the original copy of The Galaxies War. The one that premiered in 1977 (before it changed title to Episode IV: A new hope), and the one that was removed from the circulation on a date as early as 1978after a first vhs roughness and before His first re -release in 1981.
The BFI proposes to inaugurate the contest with the projection of this copy: an exceptional occasion in view of the number of people who have never been able to experience the original footage of The Galaxies Waralways nuanced by subtle updates … or as severe as the famous scene in which Jabba the Hutt He was reimagined as a two -minute CGI worm against Han Solo de Harrison Ford.
The BFI has had to negotiate with Disney and Lucasfilm, costing him to obtain the rights. The copy that will open its festival has been stored For four decades At 23 degrees Fahrenheit, in view of preserving its quality. Maybe Lucas does not make it very funny that this old version comes to light, but he no longer has any control over the work once Lucasfilm sold Disney for more than ten years.
The hope of fandom Now is that the projection goes well enough for Disney to be encouraged to distribute the original version of The Galaxies War for other markets … How Spain? The Warsie Patria community crosses the fingers.
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