It’s the perfect Star Wars version of Sorcerer, though, and owes a great debt to Friedkin’s film which it wears on its sleeve, proudly.
It was also a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s highly-respected 1953 suspense thriller The Wages of Fear, and was pre-booked to debut and play at Mann’s Chinese Theater directly following Star Wars.
It was finally re-released on Blu-ray in 2014 to great fanfare, with many now considering it to be Friedkin’s finest hour.
To be fair, Sorcerer is not an easy film to digest, and has a very odd structure.