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Star Wars is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of science fiction films produced by Lucasfilm, based on characters created by George Lucas.The Skywalker Saga of the franchise includes nine films, featuring three trilogies; the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and the sequel trilogy.
The first officially licensed electronic Star Wars game was Kenner's 1979 table-top Star Wars Electronic Battle Command. [ 210 ] [ 211 ] In 1982, Parker Brothers published the first Star Wars video game for the Atari 2600 , Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back , [ 212 ] followed soon the year later by Star Wars: Jedi Arena , the first video game ...
The character has made appearances in a few other pieces of Star Wars media, including the 2008 animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Tom Kenny) [44] and the 2015 video game Star Wars Battlefront. [45]
Star Wars: George Lucas: aka Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: 1979 Alien: Ridley Scott: 1980 The Empire Strikes Back: Irvin Kershner: aka Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back: 1981 Outland: Peter Hyams: 1982 Gandhi: Richard Attenborough: with Bhanu Athaiya: 1983 The Lords of Discipline: Franc Roddam: 1984 Greystoke: The Legend ...
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.
The original Star Wars film received widespread acclaim from critics for its storytelling, characters, John Williams' musical score and its groundbreaking visual and sound effects. The film surpassed 1975's Jaws as the highest grossing film of all time , turning science fiction films into a blockbuster genre , until it was surpassed by E.T. the ...
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, 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".
Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) George Lucas: 20th Century Fox Lucasfilm Ltd. $11 million $775.5 million 1980 The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back) Irvin Kershner: $33 million $547.9 million 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) Steven Spielberg: Paramount ...