# Original version of Star Wars coming back to theaters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 12, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911 "2026-11-12T16:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/1 "2026-11-12T16:00:20Z")
To celebrate the 50th anniversary next years they are releasing a “restored” version of the non special edition of Star Wars (at least that I how I read it). I am guess it won’t have the original audio where Mark Hamill calls Leia “Carrie”. Other celebratory things also happening throughout the year. More info here: > **[Celebrate 50 Years of Star Wars with New Documentary, Key Art, and...](https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-50-campaign)** > > Throughout 2027, Lucasfilm and Disney will mark five decades of galactic storytelling with global events including the theatrical re-release of the first film, tickets now on sale for a new museum exhibition, and more! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/2 "2026-11-12T16:08:52Z")
It’s so refreshing to have the title back to just two words. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/3 "2026-11-12T18:22:54Z")
I agree that Mark won’t call Leia “Carrie,” but does Han shoot first? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/4 "2026-11-12T18:50:22Z")
The way I read it this is not the Special Edition. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/5 "2026-11-12T19:08:48Z")
> [@Lare](#): > > does Han shoot first? He’d better! Hey, LucasFilm: there re enough of us olde fartes still around that remember ALL the changes, starting with the 1980 re-release, not just Greedo and Jabba. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/6 "2026-11-12T19:43:48Z")
That’s the best of all the Star Wars films. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/7 "2026-11-12T20:07:24Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I am guess it won’t have the original audio where Mark Hamill calls Leia “Carrie”. According to Mark Hamill, that never happened. > **[Star Wars' Mark Hamill Is Still Trying To Debunk The 'False' Luke And...](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476117/star-wars-mark-hamill-is-still-trying-to-debunk-the-false-luke-and-carrie-rumor)** > > He didn't accidentally say "Carrie." He explained what Luke really said in that Star Wars scene ... although I can't hear it that way either. > No matter how often this is debunked-it still comes back. The entire scene was dubbed. I said “There she…”- as in “There she (is)” when I saw her. George would never have allowed me to say “Carrie” even if I wanted to as a joke, which I didn’t. It makes no sense ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/8 "2026-11-12T20:09:47Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > According to Mark Hamill, that never happened. > > [Star Wars' Mark Hamill Is Still Trying To Debunk The 'False' Luke And 'Carrie' Rumor | Cinemablend](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476117/star-wars-mark-hamill-is-still-trying-to-debunk-the-false-luke-and-carrie-rumor) I believe him. I don’t think he says Carrie. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/9 "2026-11-12T20:19:47Z")
I heard it with my own ears. In the 90s I went to a charity screening of the original trilogy (long before the special editions) and the print of Star Wars was an original one. You can tell because it didn’t have the extra audio of 3P0 explaining the tractor beam on the Death Star (which was added later but also before the special edition). And at the end when Luke gets out of the X wing and the rest are running over he yelled “Carrie!” very clearly and unambiguously. Lucas must have changed it very early on to make the audio just “Heyargh” like it sounds now to fix the mistake but in that print he said it clear as day. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/10 "2026-11-12T20:21:57Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I heard it with my own ears. Then, did you go watch the alternate ending of Big? 😀 😇 ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/11 "2026-11-12T20:28:42Z")
I must have seen the original print in the theater 10 times and I never heard “Carrie”. In fact, I only heard the rumors of it after the rereleases came out. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/12 "2026-11-12T20:29:44Z")
I knew word for word that would be the first response 🙂 but I am telling the truth. Is it really that hard to believe that George Lucas, of all filmmakers, wouldn’t go back to make adjustments to his movie? He added “Episode IV” to the crawl after he initial screenings and the aforementioned CP0 dialogue. Also while I since lost track of the link to the post, I wrote a post about my experience of seeing them on the big screen (a rare thing back then) the next day on rec.arts.sf.starwars and I mentioned my surprise at hearing “Carrie!” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/13 "2026-11-12T20:48:08Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > He added “Episode IV” to the crawl after he initial screenings Wrong. EP IV was added in 1980. True, it was technically _after_ the original screeningss. Three years after. > [@Quimby](#): > > I wrote a post about my experience of seeing them on the big screen (a rare thing back then) the next day on rec.arts.sf.starwars and I mentioned my surprise at hearing “Carrie!” You were on the internet in 1977? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/14 "2026-11-12T20:48:09Z")
I recommend taking your closest millenial or Gen-z with you to this and pointing out every change to them throughout the movie so they can roll their eyes and say “OMG, y’all are way too into this.” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/15 "2026-11-12T20:51:42Z")
No like I said it was in the 1990s at a charity screening of the original trilogy. 1994 to be exact (I said 1993 in an earlier post but it was January of 1994)). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/16 "2026-11-13T00:21:00Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Wrong. EP IV was added in 1980. True, it was technically after the original screeningss. Three years after. > > Quimby: 1981, actually. Episode V on the credits of Empire predate Episode IV being added to Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/17 "2026-11-13T00:49:24Z")
When I was in high school, my friend’s little brother watched the Star Wars movie every single day over one summer. Every. Single. Day. He had the alien dialogue spoken by the door droid at Jabba’s palace memorized. He was the first person I know who noticed the Storm Trooper banging his head on the door in the first movie. If Luke had yelled “Carrie” I’m pretty sure he would have mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/18 "2026-11-13T01:03:31Z")
I didn’t hear ‘Carrie.’ I always thought it was just an excited: “HEY!!” when I was told it was “Carrie!” I could understand the confusion, but it still sounds more like “HEY!” to me. I saw it originally in theaters back then, but don’t remember the scene specifically at that time. I only became aware of it through internet lore in the early 2000’s ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/19 "2026-11-13T01:16:27Z")
For the record here is a list of changes that have been made to _Star Wars_ (1977) BEFORE the release of The Special Edition in 1997: [https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List\_of\_changes\_in\_Star\_Wars\_re-releases#A\_New\_Hope](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases#A_New_Hope) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911/20 "2026-11-13T02:16:16Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > I didn’t hear ‘Carrie.’ I always thought it was just an excited: “HEY!!” > > when I was told it was “Carrie!” I could understand the confusion, but it still sounds more like “HEY!” to me. > > I saw it originally in theaters back then, but don’t remember the scene specifically at that time. I only became aware of it through internet lore in the early 2000’s The audio was changed. This was a known issue in the movie back in the day, Lucas has no issue with tinkering with movie and it would have been simple for him to redo the audio for future prints and I heard it with my own ears. I am not going to harp on it anymore. Anyway it will be nice to see a non special edition on a big screen. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-version-of-star-wars-coming-back-to-theaters/1034911.md?page=2)