I increasingly get the feeling one day we’re finally gonna get our hands on the full 70mm cut for viewing and discover it’s virtually identical to the later cut we’re familiar with aside from the redone final scene. I have a theory that the other supposed differences actually come from one of the prints that mistakenly got sent out with “unfinished effects” shots that we’ve also heard murmurs about over the years.
It’s just a hunch and a guess, I could definitely be wrong, but every time we get a chance to see/ hear some more of the 70mm version the expected differences never seem to materialize.
Well it seems you were wrong (although perhaps not about the accidental less finished or not meant to be released ones, that stuff is still open question). Even more wild, it is now proven that there were at least two different versions of ESB in 70mm alone!
I still wonder about a few of the initial batch 70mm for Star Wars…