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I recently sold a bunch of movie posters for a relative's estate, and only just came across the name Drew Struzan. Several of his posters were in the collection, including this one [0], and I was stunned by the sale price.

[0]https://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=deta...

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The high sale price was due to the fact that this was a rare "REVENGE of the Jedi" rather than the normal "RETURN of the Jedi" poster. The back-story is that the movie title was originally going to be "Revenge..." but then there was pushback because Yoda had said "A Jedi craves not revenge" in the previous episode, so it got changed.

> Yoda had said "A Jedi craves not revenge" in the previous episode

No, he never said that.

In the lore of this early title, I heard that George Lucas said something to that effect, that a Jedi would not seek revenge.

Yeah, and I suppose you’re going to tell me that Han didn’t shoot first, either. Did you refer to an original 1980 70mm release print, before all the fiddling around they did on subsequent releases? And newspapers and fanzines from 1982 that covered the issue (at first, LucasFilm denied these posters even existed).

On the other hand, it seems that you are, in fact, correct. Oh, well.

And there are 2 varieties of this "revenge" poster, too. Both of which were in this collection. One without the date, and one with [0] which sells for ~1/3 as much. Even though these were printed in reasonably high quantity and distributed straight to the collector market at the time of the movie's promotion, since the franchise was by then quite popular.

[0]https://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=deta...

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