The Star Wars fandom bought right into a tizzy earlier this week when Empire Magazine teased one thing. Reasonably than being a have a look at the future of the franchise—like say, The Acolyte, Andor, or Dangerous Batch—it was all concerning the previous. Because of Empire, we’re going again to the Prequels, babyyyyyyyy!
As a part of its bigger cowl story for the second set of Star Wars motion pictures, Empire’s revealed that Episode I: The Phantom Menace might be making its manner again to theaters for a restricted time, beginning on Could 3. The (chronologically) first Star Wars film is 25 this 12 months, and like Return of the Jedi final 12 months, Disney’s marking the event by placing it again on the massive display. Additionally like Return and Empire Strikes Back’s respective fortieth anniversaries, there’s a model new poster from artist Matt Ferguson, which you’ll be able to see under. At time of writing, Disney hasn’t put the poster might be up on the market.
The Phantom Menace initially launched on Could 16, 1999. Again then, its massive cliam to fame was being the primary new film since Return in 1983. Again then, the sequence was stored alive with comics, the Expanded Universe novels, and video video games, which made the propsect of going again to Darth Vader’s origin thrilling. And the top end result…was not what older followers actually wished. Whereas there was definitely stuff to understand just like the visible results, John Williams rating, and that battle between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul, every part else wasn’t hitting fairly as a lot. However it made some huge cash—initially $924.3 million, then an additional $102.7 million with a 3D reissue in 2012, bringing it as much as $1.027 billion.
In 2019, we requested followers at Star Wars Celebration their emotions on Phantom, and lots of had been appreciative of what the movie was attempting to do. The Prequels have regularly gotten a re-examination within the final decade, so for individuals who haven’t seen the movie in a really very long time, this re-release is an efficient alternative to get in on that. In any case, it’s not like it might get worse in spite of everything this time.
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