You can follow their progress and read their FAQ’s at Controversy Over the 2006 Bonus DVD (George’s Original, Unaltered Trilogy) Project 4K77Īnother fan-led restoration team has created Project 4K77 (for the original 1977 release) and 4K83 (for 1983’s Return of the Jedi), and is now working on 4K80 (for 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back).
However, versions can be found on various file-sharing sites, such as BitTorrent. The first version was released in 2011, with updated versions being released in following years.Īs a fan edit, Harmy’s Despecialized Edition cannot be legally bought or sold. The edits were created by a team of Star Wars fans led by Petr “Harmy” Harmáček, an English teacher from the Czech Republic. The restorations were intended to reproduce the appearance of the three films as originally shown in cinemas. Work on a series of fan restorations of the Original Trilogy, called “Harmy’s Despecialized Edition”, began in 2010. ”ĭespite George Lucas’s attempt to bury the original theatrical release in some hidden, mythical vault, some passionate fans have been working hard to re-create, clean up and release versions of the original releases.
A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. And it won’t be what I would call the ‘rough cut’, it’ll be the ‘final cut.’ The other one will be some sort of interesting artifact that people will look at and say, ‘There was an earlier draft of this.’… What ends up being important in my mind is what the DVD version is going to look like, because that’s what everybody is going to remember. In an interview with American Cinematographer magazine (Feb. Novem– For cinephiles and hardcore Star Wars fans, the search for the original, unaltered theatrical releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, are their holy grail.īut George Lucas has put up a huge roadblock.
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