About The Lost Cut:
This was the first edit of Star Wars, edited not by George Lucas but by John Jympson.
This version of Star Wars, according to an article in Star Wars Insider #41 by David West Reynolds, contains about 30-40% different footage from the final version. There are scenes that have never been seen elsewhere as well as alternate takes of scenes we know from the finished version.
Umm, that would be the greatest find of all time to see that...
Magnoliafan...are you out there for this one?
We all want the Original New Hope and some want the Original Pre-New Hope (when it was just star wars in the scrawl and had a couple different scenes), but this, this is clearly a version I would love to see. Anyone else would release this in a box set, with so much fanfare. We'll never see it though...because it is not Luca$' "vision". It is someone else's and God forbid it was better. We all know that when someone else wrote the story (read: ESB) it was better. I wonder about this cut. Certainly, don't question my love for the original, but sheer curiousity as well as listening to Luca$ logic on deleting scenes in ATOC...makes me wonder.