Ever since taking control of Star Wars in a $4.05bn (£2.5bn) deal in October 2012, Disney has been careful to avoid criticising its creator, George Lucas, for almost bringing the space opera saga to its knees. Not so Oscar Isaac, star of JJ Abrams’ forthcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, who has said the digital tinkerings introduced on the 1997 “special editions” of 1977’s Star Wars, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back and 1983’s Return of the Jedi made the classic original trilogy “less interesting”.
Speaking to <span style=“color: #0066cc;”>the Huffington Post</span>, Isaac echoed the views of fans and critics who have wondered why Star Wars required the addition of a squealing CGI Jabba, or whether the revised version of Return of the Jedi might have reasonably dispensed with irritating new digital members of the Max Rebo Band for scenes at the Hutt gangster’s palace. The actor defended Lucas’s right “as an artist” to make the alterations, but said the original movies were “awesome”.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/29/star-wars-oscar-isaac-tinkering-less-interesting-films