"Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin Skywalker during the inaugural celebration of the first Chancellor of the New Republic, Leia, on the planet Naboo. Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back is a 2003 three-part story arc in the ""Star Wars Infinities"" series of comic books. It is an alternate telling of the 1980 film ""The Empire Strikes Back"" in which Luke Skywalker freezes to death during the blizzard on Hoth. The comic is not a direct sequel to ""Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope"", but rather a sequel to the events after the actual film version of ""A New Hope"". Three"
"Star Wars prequel trilogy The ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy is a set of three prequel films in the ""Star Wars"" franchise, an American space opera created by George Lucas. Like the original trilogy, it was produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The trilogy consists of """" (1999), """" (2002), and """" (2005). The first two films received mixed reviews, while the third was somewhat more well received. According to producer Gary Kurtz, loose plans for a prequel trilogy were developed during the outlining of the original two films. In 1980, Lucas confirmed that he had the"
"the existing ""Star Wars"" expanded universe, which was discarded to give ""maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience."" The sequel trilogy focuses on the journey of the orphaned scavenger Rey following in the footsteps of the Jedi with the guidance of the reluctant last Jedi, Luke Skywalker. Along with ex-stormtrooper Finn, she helps the Resistance led by Leia fight the First Order commanded by Supreme Leader Snoke and his pupil Kylo Ren (Han Solo and Leia's son). """" was released on December 18, 2015, """" on December 15, 2017,"
"Star Wars sequel trilogy The ""Star Wars"" sequel trilogy is the third and final set of three films in the ""Star Wars"" franchise, an American space opera created by George Lucas. It is being produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The trilogy is to consist of episodes ""VII"" through ""IX"", and chronologically follows ""Episode VI: Return of the Jedi"" (1983). Lucas had planned a sequel trilogy as early as 1976, but had cancelled it by 1981 and produced only the first six episodes. The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm in late 2012 and announced"
"Star Wars (film) Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original ""Star Wars"" trilogy and the beginning of the ""Star Wars"" franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star. ""Star Wars"" was released"
"adapted by E. Jack Kaplan and Cheryl Gard. An audio CD boxed set of the ""Star Wars"" radio series was released in 1993, containing the original 1981 radio drama along with the radio adaptations of the sequels, ""The Empire Strikes Back"" and ""Return of the Jedi"". Footnotes Citations Star Wars (film) Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original ""Star Wars"" trilogy and the beginning of the ""Star Wars"" franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison"
"discovery for the audience"". Much of the old expanded universe content would continue to be available under the ""Star Wars: Legends"" brand, which was created to brand the non-canonical works of the franchise. Only ""Episodes I-VI"" would remain canon to the franchise, along ""The Clone Wars"" animated film and series. Everything produced after the announcement, would also be considered remain canon. The first film in the sequel trilogy was titled ""Episode VII: The Force Awakens"" and written by Lucas co-writer on two sequels in the original trilogy Lawrence Kasdan, along J.J. Abrams, who also directed it. As noted by Lucas"
"be told in sequels on the chance that it became successful, so ""Star Wars"" evolved from the first film in the series to the first episode of the saga's second trilogy. Lucas eventually negotiated a contract that allowed him to make two sequels, and over time had created an elaborate backstory to aid his writing process. While writing ""The Empire Strikes Back"", Lucas considered directions in which to take the story. In the original trilogy, Darth Vader was revealed to have been Anakin Skywalker, a once-powerful Jedi Knight, and a traitor to the Jedi Order. With this backstory in place,"
"Star"" (1974). ""Star Wars"" (1977) and ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"" (1977) were box-office hits that brought about a huge increase in science fiction films. In 1979, """" brought the television series to the big screen for the first time. It was also in this period that the Walt Disney Company released many science fiction films for family audiences such as ""The Island at the Top of the World"", ""Escape to Witch Mountain"", ""The Black Hole"", ""Flight of the Navigator"", and ""Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"". The sequels to ""Star Wars"", ""The Empire Strikes Back"" (1980) and ""Return of"
"retitled ""Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope"" for its 1981 rerelease. ""Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back"" was released on May 21, 1980, and """" on May 25, 1983. The sequels were self-financed by Lucasfilm, and generally advertised without the episodic number distinction present in their opening crawls. The plot of the original trilogy centers on the Galactic Civil War of the Rebel Alliance trying to free the galaxy from the clutches of the Galactic Empire, as well as on Luke Skywalker's quest to become a Jedi. A Rebel spaceship is intercepted by the Empire above the desert"
"aid in developing the saga. ""Star Wars"" exceeded all expectations. The success of the film and its merchandise sales led Lucas to make ""Star Wars"" the basis of an elaborate film serial, and use the profits to finance his filmmaking center, Skywalker Ranch. After the release of the first sequel, the original film was subtitled ""Episode IV: A New Hope"" for a rerelease in 1981. Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Empire forces the Rebel Alliance to evacuate its secret base on Hoth. Instructed by Obi-Wan's spirit, Luke travels to the swamp world of Dagobah to"
"of questionable quality. However at the same time, titles based on the ""Expanded Universe"" flourished with criical acclaim, such as the expansion to Jedi Knight, """" and the first game in the . After the release of ""Episode I"" in theaters in 1999, an onslaught of games from the prequel trilogy began to be released for most major platforms. The first releases were the regular """" (action-adventure) and """", based on the podracing sequence in movie. Others, including """" and """", were released, but with little success. The first strategic game in the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe was titled """""
"to the dark side in a quest to save Padmé, rather than just believing that the Jedi are plotting to take over the Republic. The rewrite was accomplished both through editing principal footage, and filming new and revised scenes during pick-ups in 2004. Citations Works cited Star Wars prequel trilogy The ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy is a set of three prequel films in the ""Star Wars"" franchise, an American space opera created by George Lucas. Like the original trilogy, it was produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The trilogy consists of """" (1999), """" (2002), and"
"tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. Two novels based on the movie were published, a tie-in junior novel by Scholastic, and a novelization written by R. A. Salvatore, which includes some unique scenes. A four-issue comic book adaptation was written by Henry Gilroy and published by Dark Horse Comics. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. It is the second installment of the ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy,"
"the prequel films. It was also felt that subsequent changes stripped the ""Star Wars"" film of the qualities for which it won Academy Awards. Despite the negative response to many significant changes, critics also felt that many smaller changes were improvements, innocuous, or understandable. In 1989, the original release of ""Star Wars"" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 2014, the National Film Registry still did not have a copy of the 1977 film; director George Lucas refused to submit a copy, stating that he no longer authorized the release"
"and immediately after ""A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."". This places it halfway between ""Rogue One"" and the main saga. The opening crawl in the first ""Star Wars"" film is very different from Lucas' original intention. The original text, used in the rough cut he showed to friends and studio executives in February 1977, appears in the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film. When originally released in May 1977, the first film was simply titled ""Star Wars"", as 20th Century Fox forbade Lucas to use a subtitle because it could be confusing, since there had been"
"of sequels are set to follow. A new television series based in the original timeline, subtitled """", serving as a prequel to the original series, debuted on CBS All Access, an online streaming platform, in 2017. ""Star Wars"" picked up from where ""Return of the Jedi"" left off, with """" the first in the new trilogy, and """" following two years later. Additionally, more spin-off media is also underway after the debut of ""Star Wars Rebels"", a television series set in between the ""Star Wars"" prequels and the original trilogy, and an anthology of stand-alone ""Star Wars"" films, starting with"
"script titled ""The Star Wars"", sharing strong similarities with Akira Kurosawa's ""The Hidden Fortress"" (1958). By 1974, he had expanded the script into the first draft of a screenplay, adding elements such as the Sith and the Death Star. Subsequent drafts evolved into the script of the original film. Lucas negotiated to retain the sequel rights. Tom Pollock, then Lucas' lawyer writes: ""We came to an agreement that George would retain the sequel rights. Not all the [merchandising rights] that came later, mind you; just the sequel rights. And Fox would get a first opportunity and last refusal right to"
"the characters Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the Wookiee Chewbacca—assisted by the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2—to thwart the evil plans of Sith Lord Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. The film was followed by multiple sequel and prequel films. Along the production of the films were an array of derivative ""Star Wars"" works (set in the same continuity as the films), including books, comic books, video games, and television series, which take place at the same time as, between, and after the events of the original trilogy (1977–1983) and prequel trilogy (1999–2005). All"
"response, the studio demanded that theaters order ""Star Wars"" if they wanted the eagerly anticipated ""The Other Side of Midnight"" based on the novel by the same name. ""Star Wars"" debuted on Wednesday, May 25, 1977, in fewer than 32 theaters, and eight more on Thursday and Friday. Kurtz said in 2002, ""That would be laughable today."" It immediately broke box office records, effectively becoming one of the first blockbuster films, and Fox accelerated plans to broaden its release. Lucas himself was not able to predict how successful ""Star Wars"" would be. After visiting the set of the Steven Spielberg"
"apes and the humans, started. The ""Star Wars"" film series was created by George Lucas, produced by his self-funded production company Lucasfilm. It originated with the film """" (1977), followed by two sequels under the subtitles """" (1980) and """" (1983); together, those three films are known as the original trilogy and focuses on Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia. The prequel trilogy composed of """" (1999), """" (2002), and """" (2005) expanded the series into a Saga, and focused on Luke Skywalker's father Anakin Skywalker, new cast members portrayed younger versions of characters from the Original trilogy, while"
"first ""Star Wars"" film and be based more on emotion than explanation. In January 2014, Abrams confirmed that the script was complete. In April 2014, Lucasfilm clarified that ""Episodes VII–IX"" would not feature storylines from the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe, though other elements could be included, as with the TV series ""Star Wars Rebels"". Abrams stated that he purposely withheld some plot elements from ""The Force Awakens"", such as Finn and Rey's last names and backgrounds. Kennedy admitted that ""we haven't mapped out every single detail [of the sequel trilogy] yet"", but said that Abrams was collaborating with ""The Last"
"making it the first ""Star Trek"" film to win an Academy Award. It was followed by two sequels, ""Star Trek Into Darkness"" (2013) and ""Star Trek Beyond"" (2016). In the 23rd century, the Federation starship USS ""Kelvin"" is investigating a ""lightning storm"" in space. A Romulan ship, ""Narada"", emerges from the storm and attacks ""Kelvin"". ""Narada""s first officer, Ayel, demands that ""Kelvin""s Captain Robau come aboard to negotiate a truce. Robau is questioned about the current stardate and an ""Ambassador Spock"", whom he does not recognize. ""Narada""s commander, Nero, kills him, and resumes attacking ""Kelvin"". George Kirk, ""Kelvin""s first officer,"
"films were nominated for Academy Awards (with wins going to the first two released) and were commercially successful, with a combined box office revenue of over billion. Together with the theatrical spin-off films """" (2008), ""Rogue One"" (2016), and """" (2018), ""Star Wars"" is the second-highest-grossing film series of all time. The film series has spawned into other media, including books, television shows, computer and video games, theme park attractions and , and comic books, resulting in significant development of the series' fictional universe. ""Star Wars"" holds a ""Guinness World Records"" title for the ""Most successful film merchandising franchise"". In"
"Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. It is the second installment of the ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy, and stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Frank Oz. Set ten years after the events in """", the galaxy is on the brink of civil war, with thousands of planetary systems threatening to secede from the Galactic Republic. After"
"Clone Wars (Star Wars) The Clone Wars, occasionally referred to in the singular as the Clone War, are conflicts in the ""Star Wars"" franchise by George Lucas. Though mentioned briefly in the first ""Star Wars"" film (1977), the conflicts themselves are not depicted until """" (2002) and """" (2005). The Clone Wars are also the setting for three eponymous projects: (2003–2005), (2008), and (2008–present). They have featured in numerous ""Star Wars"" books and games. Within the ""Star Wars"" narrative, the Clone Wars involve a three-year war fought to prevent thousands of planetary systems from seceding from the Galactic Republic and"
"of the theatrical version. Lucasfilm offered the altered 1997 Special Edition release, but the Registry refused it as the first published version must be accepted. The Library of Congress, however, received a 35mm print of the film, without the ""A New Hope"" subtitle and subsequent alterations, in 1978 as part of the film's copyright deposit. The first film was released in 1977 under the title ""Star Wars"". The subtitles ""Episode IV"" and ""A New Hope"" were retroactively added to the opening crawl in a subsequent release. Accounts differ as to when this change occurred. Some, including Lucasfilm, date the addition"
"is wielded by two major knighthood orders at conflict with each other: the Jedi, who act on the light side of the Force through non-attachment and arbitration, and the Sith, who use the dark side through fear and aggression. The latter's members are intended to be limited to two: a master and their apprentice. The ""Star Wars"" film series centers around a ""trilogy of trilogies"" (also referred to as the ""Skywalker saga"" or the """"Star Wars"" saga""). They were released out of sequence: the original (Episodes ""IV–VI"", 1977–83), prequel (Episodes ""I–III"", 1999–2005), and sequel (Episodes ""VII–IX"", 2015–19) trilogy. The first"
"Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series) Star Wars: Clone Wars is an American animated television micro-series adapted, directed, produced and co-written by Genndy Tartakovsky, set in the ""Star Wars"" universe. Produced and released between the films """" and """", it is the first of many works to explore the conflict set between the two known as the Clone Wars, and directly leads to the events of ""Revenge of the Sith"". The show follows the actions of various characters from the ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy, notably Jedi Knights and clone troopers, in their war against the battle droid armies of"
"Journey to Star Wars ""Journey to ""Star Wars"" is a Disney/Lucasfilm publishing initiative that connects the ""Star Wars"" sequel films with previous film installments in the franchise. It currently includes the initiatives ""Journey to ""Star Wars: The Force Awakens"" and ""Journey to ""Star Wars: The Last Jedi"""". All titles under the program are canonical to the ""Star Wars"" universe. A group of ""at least"" 20 novels and comic books related to the 2015 film """" was announced in March 2015. The first novels, including """" by Chuck Wendig and """" by Claudia Gray, were published in September 2015, prior to"
"a weakness. The first rough draft, titled ""The Star Wars"", introduced ""the Force"" and the young hero Luke Starkiller. Annikin appeared as Luke's father, a wise Jedi knight. The third draft replaced (a deceased) Annikin with Ben Kenobi. Some months later, Lucas had negotiated a contract that gave him rights to two sequels. Lucas hired Alan Dean Foster, who was ghostwriting the , to write them — with the main creative restriction that they could be filmed on a low budget. By 1976, a fourth draft had been prepared for principal photography. The film was titled ""The Adventures of Luke"
"to bridge the ""Star Wars"" timeline between ""Return of the Jedi"" and ""The Force Awakens"". Journey to Star Wars ""Journey to ""Star Wars"" is a Disney/Lucasfilm publishing initiative that connects the ""Star Wars"" sequel films with previous film installments in the franchise. It currently includes the initiatives ""Journey to ""Star Wars: The Force Awakens"" and ""Journey to ""Star Wars: The Last Jedi"""". All titles under the program are canonical to the ""Star Wars"" universe. A group of ""at least"" 20 novels and comic books related to the 2015 film """" was announced in March 2015. The first novels, including """""
"In 1989, Lucas stated that the prequel trilogy would be ""unbelievably expensive."" The popularity of the franchise had been prolonged by the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe, so that it still had a large audience. A theatrical rerelease ""updated"" the original trilogy with the style of CGI envisioned for the new films. """" was released on May 19, 1999, and """" on May 16, 2002, both to mixed reviews. """", the first film in the franchise, was released on May 19, 2005. The plot of the trilogy focuses on the fall of the Galactic Republic, the formation of the Empire, and"