Star Wars | Original 1977 version being screened at the BFI’s Film On Film Festival
This June’s Film On Film Festival will include an original 1977 print of Star Wars, shown on the big screen for the first time in decades.
If the BFI wanted to create a bit of fuss among genre fans with this year’s Film On Film Festival, then mission accomplished. The institute has announced that it’s to stage a rare screening of Star Wars this June – an original dye-transfer print from 1977, stored in its archives and never before shown to the public.
Star Wars was, of course, re-released in a restored and modified form for its 20th anniversary in 1997. After this, George Lucas, who then still owned Lucasfilm, was rather protective over the earlier, unmodified cut of what was later named Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. While it’s been tinkered with further since, it’s the 1997 version of Star Wars publicly available on disc and Disney+.
If the BFI wanted to create a bit of fuss among genre fans with this year’s Film On Film Festival, then mission accomplished. The institute has announced that it’s to stage a rare screening of Star Wars this June – an original dye-transfer print from 1977, stored in its archives and never before shown to the public.
Star Wars was, of course, re-released in a restored and modified form for its 20th anniversary in 1997. After this, George Lucas, who then still owned Lucasfilm, was rather protective over the earlier, unmodified cut of what was later named Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. While it’s been tinkered with further since, it’s the 1997 version of Star Wars publicly available on disc and Disney+.
- 4/8/2025
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
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