Asteroid-Man said:I'm assuming they used it in the 83 one as a Teaser Poster so they didn't want to give away anything. Or they were just lazy.
Most likely it was because those were the only reference photos Drew Struzan had access to, or they were the ones he felt were the most aesthetically pleasing.
C3PX said:
Actually, those were the movie posters for the 1997 re-release/Special Edition release, before they were the VHS covers. I suppose they were originally suppose to be lined up together in movies theaters, but every theater I saw them at only displayed one poster at a time, since they were released a month apart from one another.
Even though I wasn't happy about the changes for the SE, I did like the poster art for SW and I bought 2 versions of that poster- a one sided version that I now have framed, and a 2-sided version that was meant to be put in a movie theater's litebox and illuminated from behind.
