STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE was plagued with problems throughout its production, it was heavily rushed under immense pressure, almost everybody involved thought it was destined to flop and the budget grew larger than the Death Star’s insurance bill. In retrospect it’s easy to be devoid of sympathy for the Lucas gang. They’ve grown more powerful than we can possibly imagine and they’ve furthered (or perhaps ruined) the franchise with films uglier than Jabba the Hutt’s Sister. Never the less, we have to appreciate the resounding achievement that the original film’s cast and crew waded through hell to attain.
We now have the good fortune of getting a further glimpse of that hell, a new previously unseen blooper reel from STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE. We get to peer once more at the muddy beginnings of a film that came out the other end cleaner than a Stormtrooper’s helmet.Bare witness below.
The reel is an excerpt from the book ‘The Making of Star Wars (Enhanced Edition) ” by J.W Rinzler and its available for purchase here.
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