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Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII
eldavojohn writes "El Mayimbe (who has a history of scooping movie news) has been picked up by Fox News Latino as claiming that Harrison Ford is confirmed to return for Star Wars VII (about 7 minutes in)."
Why is that child allowed to act?
What movie has he not screwed up?
He destroyed Indiana Jones, he got more screen time than the hot girl or the robots in transformers, and he still can't act.
I think he's referring to the original theatrical release where the episode number and title were not present. It was presented as "Star Wars". If I am not mistaken, the episode number and title, A New Hope, we added on subsequent at-home releases.
The very first cut did NOT have Episode IV in the crawl, because Fox made Lucas take it out. In every subsequent printing, he inserted it back in without telling them.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Not in the original release in theaters it wasn't. And Han shot first! What are you still doing on my lawn?
The very first cut did NOT have Episode IV in the crawl, because Fox made Lucas take it out. In every subsequent printing, he inserted it back in without telling them.
Kids these days! I was there, I was 11, it was just "Star Wars" and supposed to be a one-off, and only when we sat down and saw the crawl for Empire did we find out we're in the middle of a nine-part trilogy of trilogies, subsequently pared back to a hexology.
Whaddya mean, Han shot "first"? Han was the *only* one who shot.
Actually Lucas had the vision of the 9 episode story arc from the beginning. 20th Century Fox was giving Lucas the time of day on Star Wars because American Graffiti had made a shit-ton of money for Universal Pictures, after Fox had passed on the project. They weren't going to chance making the same mistake twice. At the same time though, you have to remember to the world they inhabited in 1975 when this pitch was taking place. With the notable exception of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (and maybe Planet of the Apes), most sci-fi films up to that time had been cheesy, poorly made affairs that mostly served as money pits for the studios. Fox was optimistic to break even on their $11M investment on the strength of Lucas' involvement in the project, but envisioned nothing of the cultural phenomenon they were unleashing. For his part, Lucas was keen to avoid overplaying his hand, knowing he'd be lucky to get funded for a single movie, let alone nine. Episode IV was chosen as it was the most self-contained, and most readily film-able, given the state of visual effects technology at that time. As originally filmed, what we today refer to as Episode IV was meant to stand alone. By the time it had earned $460M in gross receipts, Fox of course had a change of heart; thus the "Episode IV" was tacked on.