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"For all intents and purposes this is the original version." "For all intents and purposes this is the original version" of the movie, a Facebook announcement post said of the retouched Return of the Jedi edit, "apart from a couple of wipes." The Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Editions are fan-edited versions of the original three movies, put together from a number of sources - including original theatrical prints - by the mysterious "Harmy." Yesterday marked the latest release in the project, a "Despecialized" version 2.5 of Return of the Jedi that winds back the various changes made to Episode VI by Lucasfilm over the past 33 years.
#STAR WARS REVISITED VS DESPECIALIZED MOVIE#
Hayden Christensen is removed as Darth Vader's ghostīut now fans' prayers have been answered, with the release of a fan-edited version of Return of the Jedi that keeps the same content as the movie that hit screens in 1983, but upgrades it to near-Blu-Ray quality. Star Wars fans clamored for years to get official re-releases of the original cuts of the movie, but when they finally saw the light of day as DVD features in 2006 they looked shoddy against the Special Editions, having been sourced from non-anamorphic video captured from LaserDiscs released in the early 1990s.
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Years before fans said George Lucas ruined Star Wars with The Phantom Menace, they were berating him for ruining Star Wars in a whole different way - with Special Editions of Episodes IV, V, and VI that infamously added unnecessary CGI, changed dialogue, and reworked entire scenes.