Star Wars (film) - Wikipedia. Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1. American epicspace opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Alec Guinness. David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co- star in supporting roles. The film's plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.
This conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker (Hamill), who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. When the Empire begins a destructive search for the missing droids, Skywalker accompanies Jedi Master. Obi- Wan Kenobi (Guinness) on a mission to return the plans to the Rebel Alliance and rescue Leia from her imprisonment by the Empire. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 2. It earned $4. 61 million in the U. S. It surpassed Jaws (1. E. T. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the second- highest- grossing film in North America, and the third- highest- grossing film in the world. It received ten Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), winning seven. It was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being . At the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2. Today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie- in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, and merchandise including toys, games and clothing. The film's success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1. Return of the Jedi (1. Star Wars was reissued multiple times at Lucas' behest, incorporating many changes including modified computer- generated effects, altered dialogue, re- edited shots, remixed soundtracks, and added scenes. A prequel trilogy was released from 1. The ultimate home for Star Wars news, rumors, updates, casting, games, movies, television, merchandise, commentary, analysis, and more! The cast of Star Wars 7 has been officially unveiled and aside from the original cast we will see Andy Serkis (best known for his motion capturing as “Gollum. In 2. 01. 6, Rogue One was released as a direct prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war. Spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader. Before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2- D2, along with a holographic recording. R2- D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C- 3. PO, a protocol droid. The droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2- D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leia's message, in which she requests help from Obi- Wan Kenobi. The next morning, Luke finds R2- D2 searching for Obi- Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi- Wan. Obi- Wan tells Luke of his days as one of the Jedi Knights, former Galactic Republic peacekeepers with supernatural powers derived from an energy called The Force, who were all but wiped out by the Empire. Contrary to his uncle's statements, Luke learns that his father fought alongside Obi- Wan as a Jedi Knight. Obi- Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Luke's father. Obi- Wan then presents to Luke his father's weapon – a lightsaber. Obi- Wan views Leia's complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis. Obi- Wan invites Luke to accompany him to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force. Luke declines, but changes his mind after discovering that Imperial stormtroopers searching for C- 3. PO and R2- D2 have destroyed his home and killed his aunt and uncle. Obi- Wan and Luke hire smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee first mate Chewbacca to transport them to Alderaan on Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon. Upon the Falcon's arrival at the location of Alderaan, the group discovers that the planet has been destroyed by order of the Death Star's commanding officer, Grand Moff Tarkin, as a show of power. The Falcon is captured by the Death Star's tractor beam and brought into its hangar bay. While Obi- Wan goes to disable the tractor beam, Luke discovers that Leia is imprisoned aboard, and with the help of Han and Chewbacca, rescues her. After several escapes, the group makes its way back to the Falcon. Obi- Wan disables the tractor beam, and, on the way back to the Falcon, he engages in a lightsaber duel with Vader. Once he is sure the others can escape, Obi- Wan allows himself to be killed. The Falcon escapes from the Death Star, unknowingly carrying a tracking beacon, which the Empire follows to the Rebels' hidden base on Yavin IV. The Rebels analyze the Death Star's plans and identify a vulnerable exhaust port that connects to the station's main reactor. Luke joins the Rebel assault squadron, while Han collects his payment for the transport and intends to leave, despite Luke's request that he stay and help. In the ensuing battle, the Rebels suffer heavy losses after several unsuccessful attack runs, leaving Luke as one of the few surviving pilots. Vader leads a squadron of TIE fighters and prepares to attack Luke's X- wing fighter, but Han returns and fires on the Imperials, sending Vader spiraling away. Helped by guidance from Obi- Wan's spirit, Luke uses the Force and successfully destroys the Death Star seconds before it can fire on the Rebel base. Back on Yavin IV, Leia awards Luke and Han with medals for their heroism. Lucas favored casting young actors who lacked long experience. To play Luke (then known as Luke Starkiller), Lucas sought actors who could project intelligence and integrity. While reading for the character, Hamill found the dialogue to be extremely odd because of its universe- embedded concepts. He chose to simply read it sincerely, and he was selected instead of William Katt, who was subsequently cast in the Brian De Palma- directed Carrie (Lucas shared a joint casting session with De Palma, a longtime friend). Foster, for one, turned down the role because she was already under contract with Disney and working on two films at the time. Instead, Lucas asked the actor to assist in the auditions by reading lines with the other actors and explaining the concepts and history behind the scenes that they were reading. Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's portrayal and cast him instead of Kurt Russell, Nick Nolte. Lucas commended Cushing's performance, saying . Adored and idolized by young people and by people who go to see a certain kind of movie. I feel he will be fondly remembered for the next 3. It sounds like something that flew out of a cupboard. Lucas needed an established actor to play the important Obi- Wan Kenobi character. Producer Gary Kurtz said, . At the time, sci- fi movies still looked quite cheap as the effects were not advanced and he had a lot of samurai pride. He agreed to take the part of Kenobi on the condition that he would not have to do any publicity to promote the film. Harrison Ford said, . He was always prepared, always professional, always very kind to the other actors. He had a very clear head about how to serve the story. Thirty well- established voice actors read for the voice of the droid. According to Daniels, one of the major voice actors, believed by some sources to be Stan Freberg, recommended Daniels's voice for the role. The 7 feet 3 inches (2. Chewbacca after he stood up to greet Lucas. Door opened, and George walked in with Gary behind him. So, naturally, what did I do? I'm raised in England. Soon as someone comes in through the door, I stand up. George goes 'Hmm . He chose the former because he wanted to play a hero; British actor David Prowse took the other. Richard Le. Parmentier plays an admiral, named Conan Antonio Motti, who dares mock Darth Vader's faith in the force and his failure to locate the rebel base and the stolen Death Star plans, and is nearly force choked to death by Vader, only saved by Tarkin intervening and ordering Vader to release him. Michael Leader plays a minor role as a Stormtrooper known for accidentally walking into a door. He was unsuccessful in pitching his idea to several major Hollywood studios because it was . Eventually, Lucas presented the treatment to 2. Century Fox, and the film was approved. One of the claims is that he intended to make the film a Space Western. In the 2. 01. 0 coffee table book Star Wars: Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle produced by DK Publishing and Lucasfilm, George Lucas is said to have made his film as a direct contrast to THX 1. He felt that the bleak tone of the film led to it being poorly received, and therefore chose to make Star Wars a more optimistic film. This is what led to the fun and adventurous tone of the space opera. Of course I realize now how crude and badly done they were.. He pushed towards buying the Flash Gordon rights. So I began researching and went right back and found where Alex Raymond (who had done the original Flash Gordon comic strips in newspapers) had got his idea from. I discovered that he'd got his inspiration from the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs (author of Tarzan) and especially from his John Carter of Mars series books. I read through that series, then found that what had sparked Burroughs off was a science- fantasy called Gulliver on Mars, written by Edwin Arnold and published in 1. That was the first story in this genre that I have been able to trace. Star Wars - Wikipedia. Star Wars is an American epicspace opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of various characters . It was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1. Return of the Jedi (1. Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1. A sequel trilogy began in 2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards (with wins going to the first two films) and have been commercial successes, with a combined box office revenue of over US$7. Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the . In 2. 01. 5, the total value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at US$4. People own robotic droids, who assist them in their daily routines, and Space travel is common. Additionally one of the most recognizable and spiritual elements of the Star Wars galaxy, is known as . Described in the original film, as . The Force is wielded by two major factions; the Jedi and the Sith. The Jedi Order harness the light side of the Force, entirely devoted to their duty, as guardians and peacekeepers, forbid attachments such as marriage. In contrast, the Sith always only two a master and an apprentice, use the dark side of the force trough hate and aggression, to further their goals of controlling the galaxy for themselves and destroying the Jedi Order. The Knights of Ren replace the Sith, in the sequel trilogy, and only one last Jedi remains. In the prequel trilogy, the government is depicted in the form of all planets being part of a Galactic Republic were each planet has it's own individual government, and is represented by it's own senator at the capital city- planet of Coruscant. However the Galaxy enters in conflict when some planets, known as the Separatists, decide they no longer want to be part of the Republic. The Jedi along a Clone army support the Republic, while the Sith along a droid army support the Separatists, this conflict is known as The Clone Wars and ends with the government turning into a Galactic Empire ruled by the Emperor (secretly as Sith), and the Jedi all but extinct to restore peace. Set twenty years later, the original trilogy focuses on the Rebel Alliance as the only one who opposes the Empire. By the time of the sequel trilogy, thirty years after the Rebels restored the galaxy into a New Republic, peace is disrupted by the First Order (aided by the Knights of Ren). Theatrical films. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 2. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 2. Return of the Jedi, released on May 2. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as . Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, with its 1. Episode IV: A New Hope added to remain consistent with its sequel, and to establish it as the middle chapter of a continuing saga. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was released on December 1. Early development. In 1. 97. 1, Universal Studios made a contract for George Lucas to direct two films. In 1. 97. 3, American Graffiti was completed, and released to critical acclaim including Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Original Screenplay for George Lucas. Months later, Lucas started work on his second film, by starting the script draft, The Journal of the Whills told the tale of the training of apprentice CJ Thorpe as a . After Universal rejected the film, 2. Century Fox decided to invest on it. On April 1. 7, 1. Lucas felt frustrated about his story being too difficult to understand, so he began writing a 1. Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, this draft was renamed The Star Wars. By 1. 97. 4, he had expanded the script into a rough draft screenplay, adding elements such as the Sith, the Death Star, and a protagonist named Annikin Starkiller. Original trilogy. A New Hope. George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, the director of A New Hope and the prequel trilogy, and the script supervisor of both the original and prequel trilogies. In 2. 01. 4, Lucas ceased creative involvement with the franchise. The Galactic Empire has constructed the Death Star, a space station with the power to destroy entire planets. Emperor Palpatine intends to use this deadly weapon to enforce his control over the galaxy and crush the Rebel Alliance, an organized resistance movement. Near the orbit of the desert planet Tatooine, a Rebel ship is pursued by the Empire. Aboard, the Emperor's deadliest agent Darth Vader, along his stormtroopers capture secret member of the rebellion, Princess Leia Organa. Who before being captured, made sure the astromech R2- D2 along protocol droid C- 3. PO, escaped with the hidden stolen Death Star plans, on mission to find help from the retired Jedi Knight Obi- Wan Kenobi, who lived in Tatooine. The droids are found by an orphan farm boy raised by his step- uncle and aunt, Luke Skywalker. Luke helps the droids to find Obi- Wan, now a solitary old hermit known as Ben Kenobi, who reveals himself as a friend of Luke's deceased father the Jedi, Anakin Skywalker. Kenobi confides to him that Anakin was . It added a mystical energy field known as . Annikin became Luke's father, a wise Jedi knight. The third draft killed the father Annikin, replacing him with mentor figure Ben Kenobi. Later, Lucas felt the film would not in fact be the first in the sequence, but a film in the second trilogy in the saga. The draft contained a sub- plot leading to a sequel about . Not long after, Lucas hired author Alan Dean Foster, to write two low- budget sequels as novels. In 1. 97. 6, a fourth draft had been prepared for principal photography. The film was titled Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars. During production, Lucas changed Luke's name to Skywalker and altered the title to simply The Star Wars and finally Star Wars. The fourth draft of the script underwent subtle changes that made it more satisfying as a self- contained film, it discarded . However, Lucas previously conceived of the film as the first of a series. The intention was that if Star Wars was successful, Lucas could adapt Dean Foster's novels into screenplays. By that point, Lucas had developed an elaborate backstory to aid his writing process. Before it's release, Lucas considered walking away from Star Wars sequels, thinking the film would be a flop. However the film exceeded all expectations. The success of the film, as well as it's merchandise sales, and Lucas desire to create an independent film- making center. Both led Lucas to make Star Wars the basis of an elaborate film serial, and use the profits to finance his film- making center, Skywalker Ranch. But Lucas decided not to adapt Foster's work. Knowing a sequel, would be allowed more budget. At first, Lucas envisioned a series of films with no set number of entries, like the James Bond series. In an interview with Rolling Stone in August 1. Also adding that the backstory in which Darth Vader turns to the dark side, kills Luke's father and fights Obi- Wan Kenobi on a volcano as the Galactic Republic falls would make an excellent sequel. The Empire Strikes Back. Ralph Mc. Quarrie's sketches and conceptual art defined the aesthetics of the original trilogy, including the definitive designs of characters like Darth Vader, R2- D2, C- 3. PO, Chewbacca and sets like the Death Star, Dagobah, Bespin. At the request of the late Obi- Wan Kenobi's spirit, Luke Skywalker travels to the swamp- infested world of Dagobah, in a quest to find the exiled Jedi Master Yoda and begin his Jedi training. However, Luke's training is interrupted by Darth Vader, who lures him into a trap by capturing Han Solo and his friends at Cloud City, governed by Han's old friend Lando Calrissian. During a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke learns a terrible revelation. They held story conferences and, by late November 1. Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment called The Empire Strikes Back. It was similar to the final film, except that Darth Vader does not reveal he is Luke's father. Brackett finished her first draft in early 1. Luke's father appeared as a ghost to instruct Luke. With no writer available, Lucas had to write his next draft himself. It was this draft in which Lucas first made use of the . As Michael Kaminski argues in The Secret History of Star Wars, the disappointment with the first draft probably made Lucas consider different directions in which to take the story. He made use of a new plot twist: Darth Vader claims to be Luke's father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, as opposed to the yearlong struggles writing the first film, and quickly wrote two more drafts. He also took the script to a darker extreme by imprisoning Han Solo in carbonite and left in limbo. Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1. Vader was separate from Luke's father; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1. After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker was Ben Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine (who became a Sith and not simply a politician). Anakin battled Ben Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was wounded, but then resurrected as Darth Vader. Meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Republic became the Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi. With this new backstory in place, Lucas decided that the series would be a trilogy, changing Empire Strikes Back from Episode II to Episode V in the next draft. Kasdan, Kershner, and producer Gary Kurtz saw the film as a more serious and adult film, which was helped by the new, darker storyline, and developed the series from the light adventure roots of the first film. Return of the Jedi.
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