"Star Wars" is getting a dubbing makeover.
(Credit: Lucasfilm)"Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" is getting a new premiere on July 3 in Window Rock, Arizona, more than 36 years after it first opened in theaters. This version is a little different.
Instead of hearing the voices of actors Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and James Earl Jones, some lesser-known voice actors are getting a shot. This version will also be in Navajo.
"This was an idea that I felt was a way to promote our culture, promote our language, a way to save our language. There are definitely Star Wars nerds out there who can repeat that movie verbatim, and they speak no Navajo. And so when they're watching this and it's in Navajo, it's them learning Navajo," Navajo Nation Museum director Manuelito Wheeler told NPR.
A team of Navajo language translators worked on the script and recorded a version of the translation to assist the Navajo voice actors in doing the final overdub.
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