This article contains spoilers for the “Ahsoka” season 1 finale, “The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord.”George Lucas has been making changes to the original theatrical releases of the “Star Wars” movies since day one.
“A famous filmmaker once said that films are never completed, they are only abandoned,” Lucas said in an interview from a January 1997 issue of Starlog.
“So rather than live with my ‘abandoned’ movies, I decided to go back and complete them.”For the original “Star Wars,” before it was given the title of “A New Hope,” there really is no original theatrical edition, as it was a different film depending on how you saw it.
If you caught it in mono as opposed to stereo, there were different quirks to the dialogue (and even some actors).
For “The Empire Strikes Back”, the ending shots of the Rebellion’s fleet were added weeks after the initial release.
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