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Post #69300

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Rattlehead
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Info: The "Lost Cut" Of ANH
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2-Oct-2004, 8:27 PM
Other than Lucas, Gary Kurtz, and maybe a few other bigger names associated with the first film I don't think more than a handful of other people have EVER seen that cut and they only saw it in private exhibitions at LFL, Skywalker Ranch, and maybe at 20th Century Fox where the executives may have seen it. I believe that Lucas' friends such as Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, Milius, and maybe a couple more "film school brats" may have seen it back when it was made. The last person to be shown that print, however may have been someone who wrote an article about it for the SW Insider. I think he may actually have seen the film, but all that's been leaked from that cut are the few cut scenes released in documentary material about the trilogy such as the Definitive Collection extras, the new 4th DVD bonus disc, the Behind the Magic CD-ROM, and a few stills from SW Insider. Very few people have ever seen that edit, and if Lucas won't even release the original theatrical versions of the trilogy you can be sure he won't release that cut in it's entirety, or even significant portions of cut footage. I was surprised to see the Anchorhead scene on the Behind the Magic CD-ROM. Someone should put the cut scenes on that disc on a DVD.