Trailer Quotes
(Percy Rodrigues)
"For an entire generation, people have experienced Star Wars the only way it's been possible, on the TV screen. But if you've only seen it this way, you haven't seen it at all!"
"For a whole new generation, who have yet to experience it on the big screen. And for everyone else to experience it again!"
"See it again, for the first time!"
"You haven't anything till you've seen everything!"
Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition
Star Wars: A New Hope
Reissued by 20th Century-Fox on January 31, 1997.
Changes:
- Most of the changes to
A New Hope involve enhancements to the Battle of Yavin.
- The orange "force-field" under Luke's landspeeder is digitally erased.
- Improvements are made to the creatures in the Mos Eisley cantina.
- Additional scenes of stormtroopers riding on dewbacks while searching for the droids on Tatooine.
- More scenes of Biggs Darklighter talking with Luke before they hop on their X-Wings.
- The scene from the OTL special edition, in which a Jawa falls off a Ronto was instead used in
Shadows of the Empire.
- The Jabba scene is absent ITTL.
- The Greedo scene is unchanged from the original.
The Empire Strikes Back
Reissued by 20th Century-Fox on February 21, 1997.
Changes:
- The wampa gets more screen time in the scenes of Luke hanging upside down in the ice cave.
- The wampa's face is redesigned for consistency, especially in closeups while the wampa is mauling Luke's tauntaun.
- The snow battle shots are enhanced to remove black matte outlines.
- Windows are digitally added to Cloud City (above), allowing the viewer to see more of the city.
- More incidental shots of Cloud City are added.
- A crowd shot is added when Boba (George Takei) warns the people of the Empire's encroachment of the city. Pre-existing shots of R2 accidentally plugging into a power socket are rearranged as this scene was extended from the original.
- Vader still says "Bring my shuttle," but we still see him arriving on the Star Destroyer.
- A new hologram of Emperor Constantine appears. This time, we actually get to see Clive Revill's face.
Return of the Jedi
Reissued by 20th Century-Fox on March 14, 1997
Changes:
- Scenes of Luke building his green lightsaber are added.
- The Lapti Nek sequence is updated with a CGI Sy Snootles, but the song remains from the original.
- Shots of Mandalorian bounty hunter Kylo Ren flirting with a Twi'lek girl are added in the scene of Boushh offering Chewie to Jabba.
- A shot of a Bantha herd is added right before we see the sail barges.
- A beak is added to the sarlacc, similar to a venus fly trap.
- Shots of Cloud City, Mos Eisley and Coruscant are added right after the Funeral Pyre.
- Yub Nub, aka the Wookiee Song, is replaced by Victory Celebration.
