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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/james-hibberd/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Feb 17, 2016 2:36 AM UTC  A Star Wars scene featuring C3PO and R2D2 A Star Wars scene featuring C3PO and R2D2ullstein bild—ullstein bild via Getty Images by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/james-hibberd/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Feb 17, 2016 2:36 AM UTC Some anonymous _Star Wars_ fans have gone rogue! Longing to see an unaltered edition of 1977’s _A New Hope —_ without the decades of special edition makeovers _—_ a group reportedly spent thousands of dollars and years of effort to restore to a faded print of _Star Wars_ to the best-seen-yet high-definition version of the original cut of the film — and then leaked it online. Calling themselves Team Negative1, the group (at least, their leader claims there’s a group) quietly [released](https://www.facebook.com/despecialized/posts/1626437484299123) their “Silver Screen Theatrical Version” last month to message board acclaim. Then on Tuesday, film writer Corey Atad [posted a lengthy interview with the primary fan behind the restoration](http://moviemezzanine.com/the-fans-who-saved-star-wars/), chronicling his extensive frame-by-frame efforts to recreate a version that’s quite close to what fans first saw in theaters 39 years ago. The Silver Screen version is without the special editions’ dialogue tweaks, visual polish, and Mos Eisley’s added CGI creatures, and Han naturally shoots first (Atad points out that it’s actually jarring to realize that not only does Han fire first, but Greedo doesn’t shoot at all). There have been similar renegade restoration attempts in the past (such as the fan-made [Despecialized Edition](http://lifehacker.com/watch-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-as-it-was-before-g-1747927284)), and the Silver Screen edition still has plenty of visual flaws (pops, scratches, color issues). But connoisseurs of bootleg _Star Wars_ video claim this edition is the _most impressive_ they’ve seen so far. George Lucas has famously refused to release a high-quality 1977 version of his classic film. He [defended the decision](http://www.today.com/id/6011380/ns/today-today%5Fentertainment/t/lucas-talks-star-wars-trilogy-returns/#.VsO6F3QrJhE) to _Today_ in 2004: “The special edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. … I’m not going to spend the, we’re talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be. I’m the one who has to take responsibility for it. I’m the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they’re going to throw rocks at me, they’re going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.” Even back when the sci-fi hit was re-released in theaters in 1981, the print had already been changed, with Lucas adding the _A New Hope_ title — the first of [many tweaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fchanges%5Fin%5FStar%5FWars%5Fre-releases#1981:%5FTitle%5Fchange) to come in subsequent home video versions on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. There’s now a generation of _Star Wars_ fans who have never seen the original, scrappy, handmade-feeling _Star Wars_. “We know that anyone under 30 kind of prefers the clean, sharp, detailed look,” the Silver Screen version’s restorer explained. “Then the older crowd, the retro crowd, is like, ‘give me the grain and give me the matte boxes and give me a little weave in the picture.’ It’s kind of like CD vs. vinyl.” Of course, this online version isn’t available by any legal means. A representative for Lucasfilm declined to comment. For more, check out [Atad’s](https://twitter.com/coreyatad/) full [deep-dive interview](http://moviemezzanine.com/the-fans-who-saved-star-wars/). 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