![]() This makes continuity sense, since that film revealed that Boba was a clone of Jango, and so he would grow up to be the same person, with the same voice. I have a friend who is a HUGE Star Wars fan who told me he’d never seen Empire with Boba Fett’s original voice, and that broke my heart! (For the 2004 DVD release, Boba Fett’s dialogue was all redone by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones. Rather, it’s the subsequent changes made for the 2004 DVD and 2011 blu-ray releases that burn me. Actually, I love pretty much all of the changes/updates made to the film during the 1997 “Special Editions” (with the exception of the girly-man scream given to Luke when he falls down the shaft in Cloud City). The Empire Strikes Back was the Star Wars film least damaged by the Special Editions and all the subsequent tinkering with the film. Time will tell whether this becomes the only version of Empire that I watch from here on out the way Adywan’s Star Wars: Revisited has become the only way I watch Star Wars, but after this first viewing I am definitely leaning in that direction…! The long wait is over, though, and a few weeks ago Adywan finally released The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited. In the years since, Adywan has teased fans with glimpses into his work on a similar reworking of The Empire Strikes Back, but at times I feared he would never complete the project. ( Click here for my full review.) That one fan, working on his own, could outdo George Lucas and all of Lucasfilm and ILM is extraordinary. In all the years since, whenever I’ve felt like watching Star Wars, this has been the version I have watched. Adywan’s Star Wars: Revisited immediately became my preferred version of the film. It is at once a restoration, stripping away some of the dumber changes made by George Lucas’ frequent tinkering with the film (such as Greedo shooting first at Han) as well as correcting errors that have crept into subsequent home video releases of the film (mistakes with the audio, color-timing, etc.) while also adding in lots of fun new changes that represent what the “Special Editions” should have been (incredible enhancements to the Battle of Yavin, adding a junked battle droid into the Jawa’s crawler, showing Ponda Baba’s arm as cauterized rather than bloody after Obi-Wan slices it off with his lightsaber, giving Chewie a medal at the end, and lots more). This fan-made version, called Star Wars: Revisited, blew me away. Josh Reviews an Extraordinary Fan-Edit/Reconstruction of The Empire Strikes Back!īack in 2009, I watched and fell in love with the fan-edit of the original Star Wars created by a Star Wars fan known on-line as Adywan. ![]()
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