{"id":44372,"date":"2016-05-27T11:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=44372"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:33:03","slug":"star-was-return-of-the-jedi-rare-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/star-was-return-of-the-jedi-rare-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Lost Revenge of the Jedi Trailer Surfaces, Internet Goes Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it&#8217;s hard to put yourself in the shoes of an audience that was left hanging by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/starwars.asp?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/a> over 36 years ago. Even if you were there, it&#8217;s hard to separate out what you were feeling in that interval between the two episodes, absolutely unsure of what was to come. Han was frozen in carbonite, Luke lost a hand, Vader was smug in his victory, and you had no idea what Jabba the Hutt looked like. It was a long, long, three years for fans, and Internet leaks were a thing of the distant future.<\/p>\n<p>Recently a short-lived trailer for the then-titled <em>Revenge of the Jedi<\/em> has surfaced, thanks to the Academy, and the Internet can&#8217;t get enough of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAW1E3JIQZE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Evidently, this trailer was shown during only a very short time and only on a very small island. In the days before wide-spread use of VCR&#8217;s, movies were often re-released in theaters. In this case, 1982 found a double-feature re-release of both <em>Episodes IV<\/em> and <em>V<\/em> in the UK. At the time, 20th Century Fox was toying around with having <em>Jedi<\/em> hit theaters for a Christmas opening. This would have made it the only <em>Star Wars<\/em> film to not open in May (now, <em>The Force Awakens<\/em> holds that honor, with a December release).<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how long this trailer aired during the period of this re-release. But what is clear is that this first glimpse held a whole lot back! Not only is the title wrong, but there are no action shots at all, only a collection of still images from the production. Even the movie poster for <em>Revenge of the Jedi<\/em> is clearly inspired by a scene in <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of (or perhaps because of) the temporary and inaccurate nature of this trailer, <em>Star Wars<\/em> fans are thrilled to find another artifact from that galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this trailer? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/news\/heres-star-wars-trailer-youve-never-seen-unless-you-were-british-theater-1982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">The Academy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it&#8217;s hard to put yourself in the shoes of an audience that was left hanging by Empire Strikes Back over 36 years ago. Even if you were there, it&#8217;s hard to separate out what you were feeling in that interval between the two episodes, absolutely unsure of what was to come. Han was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389,3793],"tags":[3145,112,1937,4247,419,4246,4248,91],"yst_prominent_words":[17450,9152,16478,13741,6023,8694,8998,6194,8252,33417,33415,5780,5779,33416,8111,5825,6030,5781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64239,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44372\/revisions\/64239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}