Star Wars: Major changes made by George Lucas in the 'A New Hope' re-release

Star Wars: A New Hope was first film of worldwide famous franchise. film initially released in 1977 and introduced iconic characters like Luke, Han Solo, and Princess Leia for first time. Though film is viewed as perfect by fans around globe, George Lucas has himself went back and changed many things from original film.

Over years, Star Wars: A New Hope has been re-released multiple times with CGI upgrades, additional dialogues and scenes. Check out some of major changed from Star Wars: A New Hope. 

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A New Hope name was given years after film's release

w episode four of Star Wars saga was t titled as A New Hope when it initially released was only Titled Star Wars as George Lucas was t sure if his vision of two trilogies will come true. Every Star Wars film features a title crawl which informs audience about what has been going on in cinematic universe. original title crawl was changed in 1981 re-release and film was n titled to be Star Wars: A New Hope. 

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CGI monsters were added in 1997

original 1977 release of film did t feature character of Jabba Hut. George Lucas reportedly loves use of CGI in films and thus tried to create a monster using stop motion techlogy back in 1977. But, George Lucas failed to do so due to techlogical and time constraints.

But in 1997 re-release of film, George Lucas finally got to include a CGI monster in film as he used deleted foot from original film and patched this additional scene to it. scene features CGI Jabba Hut having a conversation with Han Solo. Harrison Ford's body was digitally raised in order to look like he is stepping on monster's tail. 

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Han Solo shot first in original release

One of most discussed scenes from Star Wars: A New Hope is Han Solo and Greedo confronting each or at Chalmun's Cantina. In 1977 release, Han Solo shot Greedo first before he could fire back. But this was changed in 1997 release and Greedo can be seen firing first. Han Solo's head was digitally shifted to right to make it look like he dodged bullet before firing. This was done by George Lucas as according to him, making Han Solo fire first puts him in a negative light. 

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