For a brief moment the original version of Star Wars actually transmitted online

No subtitle. No CG characters in Mos Eisley. Khan shoots firstS These things and others have returned over the weekend as the original, unadacted, unchanged version of George Lucas 1977 Interstellar was available On the Roku App cinema box. Or so we read. This app is no longer available to Roku and with it went Interstellar also.

For those who may not know, in the 20th anniversary of Interstellar., George Lucas released special editionsNew versions of the films with a bunch of changes he considers preferably in front of the original. So, special publications have become the only versions that Lucasfilm will be officially released. When watching the movies on TV, Disney+or maybe even in the theater, they are special editions. The only exception was the 2006 DVD edition, which included the originals as special features.

This according to ScreenIt was the version that was uploaded to the Roku cinema field last weekend. However, Male journal I noticed that by March 4 not only was the original Interstellar It disappeared as the Cinema Box app was. Well now. IO9 turned to Lucasfilm for a possible comment or clarification, but was not heard back to publication.

However, even if you missed all this ordeal, it makes you appreciate a few things. One, how fast the forces they are can react to something like this. And two that while Lucasfilm and Disney may want to push special editions on our throat, there is still a big, big audience, hungry for the versions they saw to grow. Those who watched with their family on Channel 9 on Sunday afternoon. Those who wore VHS cartridges outside. And the hell, most people are even well with the original minor changes that Lucas made by calling the first movie “Episode IV”. These are just the bigger things – a beam, a Jedi rocks, the Endor holiday – who still feel a little.

And yet, As we argued on this websiteIf not for these special editions published in theaters, Interstellar He may have had a completely different fate. At a time when it was thought, Interstellar Back to fame. This later led to the purchase of Disney and everything we have today. So, as much as special publications are rejected, they have served a goal. We just wish they were not the only version we had from the galaxy far, far, far away.

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