Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Returns to Theaters in 2027 for 50th Anniversary Celebration

Now’s your accidental to relive the opening of the Star Wars saga. Disney conscionable announced it is rereleasing Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope successful theaters successful 2027 successful grant of the film’s 50th anniversary.

The iconic movie volition debut successful theaters for the day tally connected April 30, 2027. The announcement was made connected the authoritative Star Wars societal media. “Star Wars: A New Hope returns to theaters April 2027 to observe 50 years of a postulation far, acold away,” the marque wrote alongside a 50th day image.

In a property merchandise linked successful the post, the studios besides noted that the movie would beryllium backmost successful theatres to observe 'May the 4th,' the Star Wars-centric vacation celebrated connected May 4 known simply arsenic Star Wars Day.

It was beauteous good known that Disney and Lucasfilm planned connected bringing the movie backmost to theatres but this announcement makes it official. The property merchandise besides notes, though, that the movie volition lone beryllium disposable successful theatres for a constricted time, truthful it remains to beryllium seen however agelong the tally volition be.

A New Hope premiered successful 1977 and changed the look of sci-fi and phantasy filmmaking forever. The movie — which stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill — was astir precocious screened astatine the British Film Institute successful a landmark lawsuit that allowed fans to ticker its archetypal ever print.

The people was preserved truthful perfectly (at 23 degrees Fahrenheit, caput you) that the BFI claimed to “present the movie precisely arsenic experienced by audiences connected its archetypal 1977 release” erstwhile they screened it backmost successful June.

Disney did not accidental which chopped of A New Hope it volition release. Tickets volition beryllium connected merchantability for the 50th day run, we imagine, sometime successful precocious 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.