Disney has retitled the original acquire 21st Century Fox, the company that holds the distribution rights to the original trilogy of Star Wars movies.
This marks the third official title for George Lucas' epic space opera, which was simply called Star Wars upon its release in 1977. The sequel was released in theaters as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes back, and upon its re-release in theaters in 1981 the first Star Wars movie had been retitled Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope to clarify its place in the saga, with that title added to the opening crawl.
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The prequel trilogy was similarly titled, since the hook of being Episode I was one of the major selling points of The Phantom Menace. However, perhaps in the interest of making the titles less of a mouthful, Disney's sequel trilogy has so far simply been titled Disney+, confirmed that the new titling tradition is being applied retroactively to earlier movies. On the sample screen below, you can see the original movie listed with the title Star Wars: A New Hope. Newly released merchandise shared on Twitter also uses that title.
During the presentation we also learned that Disney+ will The Mandalorian. With all that to get through, you may not even notice a title change.
We still don't know the title for releasing the original theatrical cuts of the first Star Wars trilogy... well, that would be just fine.
