New movie trailer for “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” – 34 years later [VIDEO]

Apparently it's a "thing" now to make new trailers for old movies. Last week, whoever's running the Mark Hamill Facebook fan page, shared a trailer for "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" - which came out in 1980. This new "modern" trailer was created by Cameron Arrigioni. This is his take on what the trailer would look like if the movie were coming out this week. It's amazing how cheesy movie trailers used to be. They used to be driven by announcers (who got paid BOATLOADS of money, BTW). Now, it's much more about the actual movie dialogue.

See which one you like better.

First, the original trailer - (this came out in the Fall of 1979 and yes, that's the voice of Harrison Ford. You can almost hear him screaming, "No! Don't make me read this!"):

Now the "new and improved" trailer:

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