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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".
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 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 ]
Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope describes the characters and locations featured in the film Star Wars: A New Hope, with illustrations and detailed personal histories provided for each character. [1] This information is given in the form of a report by a rebel named Voren. [2] The book is divided into an Introduction, followed by five chapters:
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).
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker is the novelization of the 1977 film Star Wars, ghostwritten by American author Alan Dean Foster, but credited to director George Lucas. [2] It was first published on November 12, 1976, by Ballantine Books , several months before the release of the film. [ 1 ]
The Art of Star Wars, a 1979 book edited by Carol Titelman, later republished as The Art of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope; Star Wars: A New Hope — The Special Edition, a 1997 comic adaptation of the "Special Edition" of the film, published as a four-issue limited series by Dark Horse Comics; Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventure: A New ...
The first appearance of Palpatine in Star Wars literature was in the prologue of Alan Dean Foster's ghostwritten novelization of the script of A New Hope, published as Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976). [82] [83] His background as a senator of the Republic was explored in James Kahn's novelization of Return of the Jedi. [7]