![]() It wasn’t until 1981, after The Empire Strikes Back, that Star Wars was re-released in theaters with the subtitle “Episode IV: A New Hope” added to its opening text crawl.īut nobody started calling it “A New Hope” in the ‘80s. The reason for this is simple: Star Wars becoming “Episode IV” was a retroactive move on the part of George Lucas, the first of his numerous revisions to the entirety of the Star Wars saga. The opening text crawl began with “It is a period of civil war,” without the now-familiar episode number and subtitle. When it was released in 1977, Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope wasn’t called that at all. An early poster for “Star Wars.” LMPC/LMPC/Getty Images ![]()
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