Originally posted by: rancher

Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar

Originally posted by: Sluggo
I don't trust the wiki.

Neither do I, but this Movie Score magazine articles preceeds it. The Wiki entry is taken almost word for word from this article, not the other way around.

Lets face it, we won't know unless one of us tracks down a 70mm print and takes a look. But this is the next best thing.

Thanks guys for looking into this further.

70mm versions

#1 - Advance Cut (The likely intended sneak preview cut small # of prints)
Edmonton (Canada)
maybe Chicago (U.S.A.) at one or two theatres (Amazon claim provided by Laserman)
claim from Germany - link from a previous post & provided by Laserman

This advance cut may be the same as the one shown May.6th, 1980 @ The Fox Studios.

I'm sure many here have given this a glance or two. This was a fun read for me. I'm convinced that this is the shooting script & pretty much the advance cut of the film without a doubt.

the link:
http://starwarz.com/starkiller/scripts/empire_fourth_draft.htm

the others:

#2 - Unfinished Cut (1st. wave of release)

#3 - The Expansion Cut (Official Cut - the 2nd. wave of release & likely the only cut used again for future re-releases)

That script is the fourth draft, written way back in November of 1978 i believe. There was another revision done, then a fifth draft written in february of 1979 in preparation for shooting in March. The script itself underwent some fairly extensive changes even from the shooting script however (the real shooting script that is, dont know why the fourth draft is mislabelled as such).