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Star Wars was completed less than a week before its May 25, 1977, release date. With all of the film's elements coming together just in time, Lucas described the work as not so much finished, but "abandoned". [158] Star Wars began production with a budget of $8 million; the total budget eventually reached $11 million. [159]
[295] [282] It created the model for the major film trilogy and showed that merchandising rights on a film could generate more money than the film itself did. [ 281 ] Film critic Roger Ebert wrote in his book The Great Movies , "Like The Birth of a Nation and Citizen Kane , Star Wars was a technical watershed that influenced many of the movies ...
The main Star Wars film series is a trilogy of subtrilogies; as it neared completion, Lucasfilm began to refer to it as the "Skywalker Saga". [1] [2] It was released beginning with the original trilogy (Episodes IV, V, and VI, 1977–1983), followed by the prequel trilogy (Episodes I, II, and III, 1999–2005) and the sequel trilogy (Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, 2015–2019).
The sequel to Star Wars (1977), [ii] it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga". Set three years after the events of Star Wars, the film recounts the battle between the malevolent Galactic Empire, led by the Emperor, and the Rebel Alliance, led by Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia.
The Rise of Skywalker is the final film of the Skywalker saga, [166] featuring a climactic clash between the Resistance and the First Order, and the Jedi and the Sith. [167] [168] The film is set a year following The Last Jedi and depicts the return of Palpatine, [169] who has been secretly controlling the First Order from the Sith planet Exegol.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 7 The Sentinel: Universal Pictures: James B. Harris (director); Jeffrey Konvitz (screenplay); Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner, John Carradine, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo, Hank Garrett ...
Han Solo (/ ˈ h ɑː n ˈ s oʊ l oʊ /) [2] is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He was introduced in the 1977 film Star Wars, [u] and later appeared in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), The Force Awakens (2015), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019); Harrison Ford portrays Solo in all five films.
Directed by Steve Binder, it was the first Star Wars spin-off film, set between the events of the original film and the yet-to-be-released sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It stars the main cast of the original Star Wars and introduces the character of Boba Fett , who appeared in later films.