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.
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Kathy A - Mar 01, 2011 9:42:03 am PST #13390 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sue - Mar 01, 2011 10:26:46 am PST #13391 of 30000
hip deep in pie
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.
SuziQ - Mar 01, 2011 10:59:01 am PST #13392 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
tommyrot - Mar 01, 2011 11:01:18 am PST #13393 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
SuziQ - Mar 01, 2011 11:26:55 am PST #13394 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
JZ - Mar 01, 2011 12:14:24 pm PST #13395 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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.
JZ - Mar 01, 2011 12:16:18 pm PST #13396 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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."
Kathy A - Mar 01, 2011 12:22:08 pm PST #13397 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
flea - Mar 01, 2011 3:04:05 pm PST #13398 of 30000
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I recall a VERY SERIOUS CONVERSATION with our neighbor and my brother's best friend, who was probably five at the time, about how they WERE going to call it REVENGE of the Jedi, but Jedis DON'T GET REVENGE!!!1!
Laga - Mar 01, 2011 6:21:58 pm PST #13399 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I got my first Boba Fett in a Revenge of the Jedi package. Of course I opened it and played with it.