Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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Were we supposed to know that?
I thought so. But maybe the only people who know are those who saw it when it opened?
I saw it when it opened. But then I was 6 or 7, so it probably didn't register with me at all.
Seriously, though? Is that another common-knowledge thing that I've made it to almost 40 without knowing? It's like I live half in a cave.
I don't remember Episode IV stuff from the original run in the theater. But pretty early on, it became common knowledge that there were going to be 9 movies, and Star Wars was going to be the fourth.
I remember that Time did a big cover article on Star Wars and Lucas either when they announced that Empire was going to be made or when Empire was released (can't remember which), and that's when I first heard about the whole "Episode IV" thing, as well as Lucas's original 9-film planned saga. It was only after that that Lucas changed the title card for Star Wars.
I remember getting to arguments about the IV thing and hey, I was only 8 when I saw the movie, but I was pretty sure it wasn't there.
I refuse to call the first movie A New Hope. It is Star Wars. Anything else is subtitle in my world.
Also - which movie was it where they had released posters with a slightly different title which had to be pulled when they decided to change the name. It is in my brain somewhere but my brain is refusing to share with me.
Also - which movie was it where they had released posters with a slightly different title which had to be pulled when they decided to change the name. It is in my brain somewhere but my brain is refusing to share with me.
Are you thinking of The Revenge of the Jedi / The Return of the Jedi?
Lucas says the "revenge" was to fool the pirates or something, but I don't think that's true.
That is it tommy. A friend of mine had gotten one of the "wrong" posters. I'm sure it is quite the collector's item now. I wonder if he kept it.
I was nine or ten when it came out, and I don't even remember how many times I saw it during the first run, and to the best of my recollection Fred Pete and Kathy are totally right -- it wasn't in the original crawl, but the Big Huge Arc plan became common knowledge pretty soon after the first (the REAL ACTUAL first, dammit) movie.
The mom of a friend of mine in high school worked for ILM way back when, and he was very proud to run around school showing off all his cool extra-advance Revenge of the Jedi swag. When the title change was announced, I asked him if he was bummed that the t-shirt he was wearing that very day was now wrong, and he said, "Dude, I was waiting for the bus this morning and some guy offered me fifty bucks for this shirt."
A few years after Jedi came out, I was at a Doctor Who convention, and one of the items available for their charity auction was a Revenge of the Jedi t-shirt, and IIRC, it went for a big chunk of change.