![]() This is entirely unlike Despecialized which splices together clips from the 2011 Blu-ray release, an HDTV broadcast of the Special Edition DVD, a version of the unaltered film included as a special feature on the 2006 DVD collection and "various scans of 70mm and 35mm" film prints and stills from the movies, according to Lifehacker.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. That time was spent doing dirt removal and repairing damage to the film print on a frame-by-frame basis, scanning the original prints with a DSLR mounted to a 35mm projector. Silver is a restoration project based off of a single 35mm film print of the original movie that's taken Negative1 over four years to create, according to a lengthy interview over at Movie Mezzanine. While on paper both projects sound pretty similar, it's the methodology used that sets the two available-via-torrent projects apart. Hence The Silver Screen Edition (above) and Despecialized Edition (below) from Team Negative1 and Petr "Harmy" Harmecek, respectively. Subsequent versions suffer from altered color saturation in an effort to make the classic movies look more in line with the prequel trilogy when it was released on Blu-ray, for example. The original version of Star Wars versus the one most of us are probably the most familiar with, however, has differences that extend way beyond the events leading to bounty hunter Greedo's death. And until there's an official release of the unaltered trilogy on Blu-ray (keep the hope alive!), it's probably the best way to watch Han shoot first. If you're willing to bend the law a little bit, though, a fan-restored 35mm print of the original has been floating around the web and garnered a solid amount of interest recently. George Lucas has infamously disowned the original theatrical releases, standing by his CGI-filled Special Editions from the late '90s. ![]() None of us wanted a horribly CGI’d Jabba in Mos Eisley by the Millennium Falcon, because that just was a terrible choice.If you want to watch the original, unaltered version of Star Wars from 1977 legally your options are essentially nonexistent. Lucas went on to talk about people throwing rocks at him and the millions of dollars put into the remakes, but what many fans (myself included) feel he’s lost sight of, is that none of us wanted Greedo shooting first…or at all, in the first place. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. “The Silver Screen version is without the special editions’ dialogue tweaks, visual polish, and Mos Eisley’s added CGI creatures, and Han naturally shoots first (Atad points out that it’s actually jarring to realize that not only does Han fire first, but Greedo doesn’t shoot at all).”ĮW goes on to talk about how George Lucas has staunchly defended the multiple extended and digitally remastered editions of the originals, going so far as to almost sound belligerent about it in an interview with Today: The special edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. That’s right, the power of the internet at it’s finest, folks. In an article by Entertainment Weekly, we’ve learned that a group calling themselves Team Negative1 spent thousands of dollars several years and painstaking time and effort to restore an old faded print of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope to what some experts are calling the best HD version of the original cut of the film…and then they leaked it online. ![]()
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