{"id":51098,"date":"2026-11-12T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/disney-marking-star-wars-50th-anniversary-with-fresh-a-new-hope-making-of-documentary\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:32","slug":"disney-marking-star-wars-50th-anniversary-with-fresh-a-new-hope-making-of-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/disney-marking-star-wars-50th-anniversary-with-fresh-a-new-hope-making-of-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Marking Star Wars 50th Anniversary With Fresh A New Hope Making Of Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">Disney has announced its plans for the 50th anniversary of Star Wars, which will include a fresh documentary detailing the making of <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope\">A New Hope<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">George Lucas&#8217; original Star Wars film debuted back in 1977, kicking off what would become one of the world&#8217;s most popular and lucrative film and TV franchises. Half a century on, Disney+ will debut &#8220;The Hero Awakens,&#8221; a brand-new documentary featuring rare archival footage from A New Hope&#8217;s production, helmed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker R.J. Cutler. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">The Hero Awakens will drop via Disney+ on Star Wars&#8217; annual May 4th celebration, following the theatrical re-release of Star Wars on February 19. This will be the rarely-seen original 1977 version of the movie \u2014 back when Jabba the Hutt was not a CGI slug and Greedo actually shot first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/11\/12\/c139a428-4ac7-4441-89dd-c50ca04ec3b7-1794502358526.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>The new poster for Star Wars&#8217; theatrical re-release next year.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">In terms of what&#8217;s actually new for the Star Wars franchise next year, Ahsoka Season 2 will drop via Disney+ on January 20, while Star Wars: Starfighter will land in theaters on May 28. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">Both are anticipated, though will arrive at a time of great uncertainty for the Star Wars franchise in general,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/disney-marking-star-wars-50th-anniversary-with-fresh-a-new-hope-making-of-documentary\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney has announced its plans for the 50th anniversary of Star Wars, which will include a fresh documentary detailing the making of A New Hope. George Lucas&#8217; original Star Wars film debuted back in 1977, kicking off what would become one of the world&#8217;s most popular and lucrative film and TV franchises. Half a century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-51098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}