Star Wars’s original theatrical cut is getting a public projection for the first time in decades

For the first time for decades, some fans will have the opportunity to experiment Star Wars The way it was originally shown in 1977, without additional CGI components and first not shoot.

This June, the BFI film on the London Film Festival is making something that fans have wanted to see for years … a public screening of the original unchanged theatrical cut Star Wars.

Thursday 12 June, the opening evening of the Festival, the BFI will project one of the few prints of Technicolor IB Transfer IB remaining from the original British version of the film. According to the official website:

“Film on Film Presents Star Wars Exactly as experienced by the public on its original version, the screening by one of the precious handfuls of prints of Tecnicolor IB transfers of dyes produced for the first British output, kept in the BFI National Archive. “

OR Star Wars Continuity scripts, rare Polaroid on the set, annotations and canceled scenes. ”

It would be so beautiful to experiment! Since 1997 the release of The Special Editions, George LucasThe updated versions of the original trilogy were the only ones widely available on Blu-ray, on streaming and in every official re-report.

This has aroused decades of debate. For many fans, those first changes are cinematographic history. But outside of a short -term and scarcely mastered 2006 release of DVD bonuses of 2006, the theatrical versions were almost impossible to find in the modern era.

This is a big problem! The unchanged put Star Wars He was substantially blocked in the vault of Lucasfilm for almost 30 years. Which is now publicly projected, in 2025, on 35 mm, by a Technicolor printing is fantastic.

The news does not come much later Star Wars The fans captured a moment with the eyelids-e-tiss-the time when the original cut appeared briefly on the Roku Cinema Box app. And while there is no indication that this BFI projection means that an official release of the home media is coming, it will arouse new conversations as to why this has not yet happened.

However, fans hope that this is the beginning of a wider restoration movement may want to manage expectations. Lucasfilm has long insisted that the special editions are Canon and the current Disney strategy has not moved on that front.

So if you are close to London in June, go! Guard Star Wars As the public saw it in 1977, with all its practical effects, optical composites and original intact audio mix, is something that few live fans have ever experienced on the big screen today.