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When The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012, a glimmer of hope swept through the fandom. Surely, Disney—a company built on capitalizing on nostalgia—would release an exclusive, pristine box set of the unaltered Original Trilogy.

The original pacing and audio mix offer a different, often preferred, emotional experience. Is There Hope for an Official 1977 Version Release? star wars 1977 original version exclusive

For decades, film preservationists, historians, and generations of science fiction fans have been locked in a quiet, passionate crusade. They are not hunting for lost silent films or missing masterpieces of avant-garde cinema. Instead, they are searching for the definitive, high-definition home release of the single most influential blockbuster in movie history: the true 1977 theatrical version of Star Wars . When The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for

In 1988, George Lucas himself stood before the United States Congress to argue against the alteration of classic American films by copyright holders (specifically referring to the colorization of black-and-white movies). Decades later, film critics and historians used Lucas’s own words to argue that altering Star Wars was an injury to American cultural history. Is There Hope for an Official 1977 Version Release