The Star Wars: Episode IV – A new hope You remember watching was not original. Let me come back to what I said: it was not the Version originals du Premier Star Wars The film landed in disaster in the cinemas in 1977. But after more than 46 years of confinement in a tomb at controlled temperature in England, the public will be able to see the first version, a special, extra-colored and well-preserved copy of the film, obtained by “Imbibition by dye transfer”, and George Lucas will probably not be very happy.
The next Festival Film on Movie You British Film Institute will open in June with a projection of a rare technical copy of the original film Star Wars Film released during its first broadcast in Great Britain. Although it has been released on video, it will be the first time that the public will be able to see it in the cinema since December 1978. If Lucas had had his say, the world would probably never have seen it.
George Lucas tinkered with Star Wars: Episode IV – A new hope For years, he has tried to reorganize the film with additional scenes here, a new opening sequence there and a series of special effects modifications. The first changes took place in 1981, when a new version with the added subtitle has replaced the original version of 1977. For the past ten years, Lucas spent ten years, having avoided being liable to his first attempt at his Magnum Opus. Since 1997, cinemas have only been allowed to project the revised and update version. For Lucas, the version that the British Film Institute will project “is not very good”, and it will not recognize its existence.
“The special edition is the one I wanted. The other film is in VHS, if someone wants it. I’m not going to spend – we are talking about millions of dollars here – money and time to refurbish it, because for me, it doesn’t really exist, “said Lucas. the Associated Press In 2004. “This is how it was the film I wanted to be, and I am sorry that you saw a half -finished film and that you fell in love. But I want him to be as I want him to be. »»
-Unfortunately for him, Lucasfilm and Disney have given the BFI to project the original copy of the film. Star Wars movie. He may believe that “a film belongs to its creator”, according to what he said to the public during his Masterclass seminar at the Cannes Festival last year. But when you sell your business For $ 4 billion, we quickly learn that this is not the case. After the two projections at the BFI Film on Film festival, the film “returns directly to the Master Film Store and in these icy conditions” which made it possible to maintain the impeccable quality of the film over the decades, according to James Bell, principal conservative of fiction in the National Archives of the BFI and director of programming of the festival.
The festival will open on June 12 in London.
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