More recently we have had a number of Star Wars iOS games, then there was Star Wars Rebels bringing back some favorite characters (Darth Vader, Lando Calrissian), not to mention the awesomely updated Star Wars arcade machine.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens isn't open in theaters until December 18, but the updated Star Wars-sprinkled Giphy Cam is available now for download.
But Josh Dickey, film editor at Variety magazine in LA, said that Disney was a "great fit" to update Star Wars.
It's like what George Lucas said about updating Star Wars: you want it to be as you remember not as it actually was.
Forty years ago, the Young Vic opened its doors with a production of Scapino!, an updated Molière play starring Jim Dale.
That is the prospect for Kim Cattrall, left, who will be heading for London to make her British theater debut as the star of an updated version of Brian Clark's play "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" under the direction of Peter Hall in the West End in January.
Rising STAR is an updated version of the university's Sprawl-Tuned Autonomous Robot that it displayed in 2013.
Back to the future seems to be the theme of their commissioning: there's a remake of The Prisoner, starring Ian McKellan, an updated version of Bouquet of Barbed Wire and what sounds very much like another crack at Upstairs Downstairs in Julian Fellowes series Downton Abbey, about life on both sides of the green baize door in a grand country house.
A clever contemporization of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, scripted by Ernest Lehman (with whom Wise had collaborated on Somebody up There Likes Me and Executive Suite), it featured Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as an updated version of the famous star-crossed lovers, with Academy Award-winning supporting performances by George Chakiris and Rita Moreno.
This isn't an updated swashbuckler, it's a backdated Star Wars!
