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No CGI Jabba the Hutt.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I knew he was a lying fuck, no way in hell the process would destroy the originals unless he was a complete idiot or purposefully did so with the intent to hide history.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

As the article says, there are still original distribution prints from 1977 out there, squirreled away in private print collections.

So they might be dragging one of those out for this showing.

As for the original negatives... only Lucas knows.