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Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy

posted by on Wednesday April 26 2017, @09:15PM   Printer-friendly
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MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Bad news, Star Wars fans. Those of you who have been holding out hope that Disney may want to further capitalize on a galaxy far, far away by restoring the theatrical cuts of the original Star Wars trilogy are about to be sorely disappointed. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has officially confirmed that they have no plans on messing with the cuts and intend to leave the movies the way that George Lucas did when he revisited them in the 90s.

[...] While she revealed that there is no agreement in place to keep the Star Wars cuts as they are, she also made it clear that Lucasfilm isn't planning on messing with them.

Source: http://movieweb.com/star-wars-classic-trilogy-disney-wont-alter-restore/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:48PM (#500640)

    Have avoided the recut versions but ok, that is actually a change I can support making. When they originally made Episode VI they had no clue what Anakin would eventually look like so replacing him is basically just a fairly small continuity fix. It doesn't rewrite a major character or anything.

    It still makes no sense as why would his ghost suddenly look like he did 20 years previously rather than how he looked under the mask but without the burn scars?

  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:16PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:16PM (#500885)

    I think the idea was to drive home the point that while Obi Wan was omitting very some important details, he wasn't exactly lying when he said Anakin Skywalker died. Anakin died and Darth Vader was born out on that lava flow. In death Anakin/Vader's spirit resumed Anakin's appearance, not Vader's. Assuming you can buy the Force and the other metaphysics of Star Wars it is a defensible position. For example we can assume that when Luke crosses over his ghost will manifest with a whole hand even though it has been a mechanical device for most of his life and the force doesn't manifest through hardware.