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The version of Star Wars returning to theaters on February 19, 2027 is the one George Lucas spent nearly thirty years insisting could never be shown again.
This is the genuine 1977 theatrical cut, newly restored. Han shoots first. There is no CGI Jabba slithering around Mos Eisley. None of the Special Edition additions Lucas folded in starting in 1997 are present. It is the first proper theatrical run of the original film in over forty years, confirmed on the official Star Wars site.
What makes that remarkable is how hard Lucas worked to bury it. After the 1997 Special Editions, he said repeatedly that the altered versions were the only ones he recognized. He compared his right to keep changing the film to Michelangelo deciding to repaint part of the Sistine Chapel.
His stated reason it could never come back was technical. He said the original camera negative had been physically cut apart to assemble the Special Edition, which made a true restoration of the 1977 version impossible.
So for almost three decades, every official release carried Special Edition material. The one time the original cut appeared on DVD, in 2006, it was a low-resolution transfer pulled from an old laserdisc master, slipped out as a bonus disc with no restoration at all.
The best way to watch the real 1977 Star Wars became a fan project. One team tracked down an actual 35mm theatrical print through a seller in Spain and scanned it frame by frame, cleaning every speck of dirt by hand over several years, because the studio that owned the film would not.
The 2027 restoration quietly proves it was always possible with the technology that existed the whole time. What had been standing in the way was ownership. Lucas controlled the film and did not want this version seen, and that only changed when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for four billion dollars.
The 50th anniversary celebration everyone is sharing is, underneath the nostalgia, a studio releasing the exact version the film's creator spent his life trying to paint over, now that he is no longer the one holding the brush.
"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band.
The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September).
Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.
This is an official government account in a democracy.
This is what Orbanism looks like. The president bragging, via AI video, that he forced a comedian who mocked him off the air and ‘into the trash’.
Today we remember lan Curtis, whose voice, words, and presence continue to echo through generations since his passing on May 18, 1980 - forever missed, forever heard.
📷 (c) Anton Corbijn
Il presidente del consiglio di amministrazione di eBay Paul Pressler ha detto che l’offerta di GameStop è stata giudicata «né plausibile né attraente»
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Quando si lascia il Giappone ci si porta dietro un senso di pace e una consapevolezza: tradizione e modernità possono coesistere in un costante equilibrio tra natura e progresso, tra tensione all’infinito e caducità della vita.
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