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    11 hours ago


    As I remember it, the original title crawl did indeed say “Episode IV A NEW HOPE.” This was despite it being the first movie made – to give it the feeling of starting in the middle of a larger drama.

    When you went outside the Marquee said Star Wars. The VHS says Star Wars. But the movie calls itself STAR WARS Episode IV A NEW HOPE.

    Is this splitting hairs? Yes.

    EDIT. I was wrong. In 1977 there was no subtitle in the crawl because of FOX. In 1981, there was.

    The opening crawl in the first Star Wars film is very different from Lucas’s original intention. The original text, used in the rough cut he showed to friends and studio executives in February 1977, appears in the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film. When originally released in May 1977, the first film was simply titled Star Wars, as 20th Century Fox forbade Lucas to use a subtitle on grounds that it could be confusing, since there had been no other Star Wars movies prior to 1977.[2][10] In addition, it was not certain if the film would be followed with a sequel. When The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980, the episode number, “Episode V”, and subtitle “THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK” appeared as the first two lines of the opening crawl.^[citation needed]^ To match its sequel’s crawl, the episode number “Episode IV” and subtitle “A NEW HOPE” were added for the film’s theatrical re-release in April 1981.