The original 1977 cut of Star Wars: A New Hope is getting an extremely rare screening this summer
The original, Jabba the Hutt-less version of A New Hope is screening in London thiღs summer

Star Wars fans🌺 will have the opportunity to see the original theatrical cut of Star Wa🐈rs: A New Hope with an extremely rare screening in London this summer.
The 1977 version of the first Star Wars movie will be shown on the opening night of the BFI's Film on Film festival this June, which celebrates all things celluloid. Since 1997, George Lucas' Special Edition of A New Hope has been the version most widely avail🌌a𒀰ble to watch, and the original is very difficult to find.
The revised edition includes several new additions, which have proven to be controversial among fans. For example, in one scene in the Mos Eisley cantina, Harrison Ford's Han Solo no longer shoots first when he k🐬ills the bounty hunter Greedo, and Jabba the Hutt is also introduced, when originally he doesn't appear in the movies until 1983's Return of the Jedi.
Only the original𒀰 cut of A New Hope is on the cards to be screened at the Film on Film festival, and the BFI doesn't currently have plans to show the theatrical cuts of Episodes🦹 5 and 6, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
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