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After its 3D re-release in 2012, the worldwide box office gross exceeded $1 billion, [241] making it the first Star Wars film and the 11th film in history—excluding inflation—to do so. [ 241 ] [ 242 ] Although in the intervening years, the film had lost some of its rankings in the lists of highest-grossing films, the 3D re-release returned ...
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film [a] and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
The finalized third draft, dated August 1, 1975, was titled The Star Wars From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller. This version had most of the elements of the final plot, with only some differences in the characters and settings. It presented Luke as an only child whose father was already dead, and who was cared for by a man named Ben Kenobi. [51]
Star Wars Celebration main entrance. The Star Wars Celebration was held from April 30 to May 2, 1999, at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, Colorado, just three weeks before the release of The Phantom Menace.
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.
Heir to the Empire, which reached #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, [15] began what would become a large collection of works set before, between, and especially after the original films. [16] StarWars.com wrote in 2014 that the novel "jumpstarted a publishing program that endures to this day and formalized the Expanded Universe". [16]
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
NPR Star Wars Radio Series promotional poster. A radio dramatization of the original Star Wars film trilogy was produced in 1981, 1983, and 1996. The first two radio series, based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio (NPR) as part of NPR Playhouse.