Last week, Lucasfilm shocked the world with the announcement that its plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Wars with a theatrical re-release would mark the first official re-release of the original theatrical cut of A New Hope for the first time in decades. But the legacy of tweaks George Lucas has made to Star Wars is as long as Star Wars ‘ existence itself… and what “original” actually means has been changing, from a certain point of view, from the very beginning.

No one, least of all Lucas, could have predicted the way Star Wars would change pop culture as we knew it when it first released in 1977. The movie that made it to theaters was one of a thousand compromises, with things tweaked and cut and given up on as Lucas strove to realize his ambitious ideas o

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