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Star Wars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 1977 film Star Wars, composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Williams' score for Star Wars was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8–12, 15 and 16, 1977.
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).
Star Wars (later retitled as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox. It is the first film released in the Star Wars film series and the fourth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga".
Blu-ray cover. Star Wars: The Despecialized Edition, also known as Harmy's Despecialized Edition, is a fan-created film preservation of the original Star Wars trilogy films: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983).
Star Wars was released on May 25, 1977, and first subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope in the 1979 book The Art of Star Wars. [54] The film's success led Lucas to make it the basis of an elaborate film serial. [55] With the backstory he created for the sequel, Lucas decided that the series would be a trilogy of trilogies. [56]
The franchise-originating film was released in 1977, under the title Star Wars.The subtitle Episode IV – A New Hope was retroactively added to the opening crawl for the theatrical re-release on April 10, 1981, [13] [37] to align with the titling of the sequel, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
David Prowse, the celebrated bodybuilder and film star who provided the hulking, imposing frame of Darth Vader as the original actor to play the iconic "Star Wars" villain, has died. He was 85.
Star Wars: $2,291,696: Star Wars returned to number one in its seventh week of release grossing $6,197,462 nationally in the weekend ended July 10 [31] [32] 29: July 20, 1977: $2,231,720: Star Wars grossed $6,806,951 nationally in the weekend ended July 17 [33] [34] 30: July 27, 1977: $2,789,667: Star Wars grossed $7,000,644 nationally in the ...