In the rereleases of the original trilogy, Lucas added superfluous CGI aliens in the backdrop of scenes that were often distracting, and destroyed the balance of the original shot compositions. Whether this is true or not, there’s still no way to see the original Star Wars theatrical release, and there may be a thousand versions of the film, Black muses to me, if you count the smallest changes of scene cuts and audio dubs for television, or the fact that the entire film was simply sped up to fit on the two-hour limitation of early laserdisc. You see, George Lucas claims that no original master of Star Wars exists anymore, as he chopped it up to create the rereleased version in the 1990s. And around 2006, he came across a media collector’s dream on the Star Wars forums, where he discovered fans sharing clips of the countless versions of Star Wars that have existed since its first 1977 run-from commercial releases including 8 mm and 16 mm prints to VHS tapes and laserdiscs. He has a passion for music-particularly vinyl-and he’s created his own custom box sets from his collection of 1,000 records and 2,000 CDs. Without a wife or kids, he has a level of discretionary time and income that he reserves for hobbies. Speaking on the phone with me, Black has the voice of an enthused teenager, but he’s in his 40s now, and works his own schedule as a computer programmer and business analyst.
There may be a thousand versions of Star Wars, Black muses.
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He just considers himself a fan like you or me, a person who’d like to pop in the movie every few years and, in his words, “kind of enjoy it,” as he did in 1977, the first time he saw it in the movie theater. He can’t recite the film by heart, he’s refrained from reading all of the books, and he hasn’t even seen The Force Awakens yet. It seems only fair to mention, before we get too far into the story first broken by Movie Mezzanine, that Black doesn’t consider himself a Star Wars fanatic.
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