{"id":332805,"date":"2025-12-05T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332805\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:15:07","slug":"disney-to-re-release-theatrical-cut-of-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332805\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney to re-release theatrical cut of Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seizing the chance to become everyone\u2019s favorite movie studio<\/a>, Disney confirmed the original 1977 cut of Star Wars will return to theaters in 2027. The news comes from Gizmodo<\/a>, which reports that on February 17, 2027, Disney will put a restored version of the 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars, sans the Special Edition additions, in theaters. Unburdened by such questions as \u201cWho shot first, Han or Greedo?\u201d and \u201cWhy does Jabba the Hutt look like that?\u201d this version of Star Wars will be the first opportunity audiences have had to see the 1977 cut since, well, the late 1970s. George Lucas began altering his vision as sequels entered theaters, adding the A New Hope subtitle, episode numbers, and retouched effects as early as 1981 for Star Wars\u2018 initial re-release. Early reports also indicated that the restoration would also be released on IMAX screens, but those have yet to be confirmed. We would be shocked if it didn\u2019t end up in premium format, considering IMAX already has a Star Wars 50th anniversary re-release planned\u00a0for that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a Technicolor print of the film screened at the British Film Institute\u2019s Film on Film Festival. It was the first time the original theatrical cut had screened publicly since 1978. Two years from now, we\u2019ll all be able to see what George Lucas was so embarrassed by in his initial take on the age-old story of a distracted boy simply trying to waste time with his friends by picking up some power converters from the Tosche Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seizing the chance to become everyone\u2019s favorite movie studio, Disney confirmed the original 1977 cut of Star Wars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-332805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}