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[32], The film was ambitious as Lucas wanted to create fresh prop prototypes and sets (based on McQuarrie's paintings) that had never been realized before in science fiction films. It's always been what you might call a good idea in search of a story. The most significant material cut was a series of scenes from the first part of the film which introduced Luke Skywalker. [67] He found scrap airplane metal "that no one wanted in those days and bought them. Before the Falcon can reach Alderaan, Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin orders the planet destroyed as a show of force, and the group is captured by the space station's tractor beam. "[89] In an examination of this early cut, which has come to be called the "Lost Cut", David West Reynolds noted the film adopted a "documentary-like" approach that emphasized "clarity, especially in geographic and spatial relationships" over "dramatic or artistic concerns". It's the flotsam and jetsam from the period when I was twelve years old. In 2010, Lucas announced that all six previously released Star Wars films would be scanned and transferred to 3D for a theatrical release, but only 3D versions of the prequel trilogy were completed before the franchise was sold to Disney in 2012. "[211] Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 90 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim. This difference was later settled by 20th Century-Fox executives, who backed Taylor's suggestion. Director: George Lucas | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee [66] Lucas later stated that he had wanted to make it look like outer space. It stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew. Traveling to a cantina in Mos Eisley to search for transport, Luke and Obi-Wan hire Han Solo, a smuggler with a price on his head due to his debt to local mobster Jabba the Hutt. [132], Star Wars was re-released theatrically in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1982,[133] with the subtitle Episode IV – A New Hope being added in 1981. On his decision, Lucas said: "I thought they were good, eccentrically photographed pictures with a strong documentary flavor. [6] 35mm reels of the 1997 Special Edition were initially presented for preservation because of the difficulty of transferring from the original prints,[160] but it was later revealed that the Library possessed a copyright deposit print of the original theatrical release. Lucas has often stated that the entire trilogy was intended to be considered one film. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron film to be directed by Patty Jenkins, the first woman to direct a Star Wars movie. Fox and Lucasfilm subsequently decided that they wanted to promote the new film with a less stylized and more realistic depiction of the lead characters. | By February 1977, a half million copies had been sold. The radio version was originally considered to be part of the official Star Wars canon,[247][248] but has since been supplanted by revised canonical narratives. Star Wars focuses on the journey of Luke Skywalker (Hamill), who along with the wizened Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Guinness), smuggler Han Solo (Ford), and his Wookiee companion Chewbacca (Mayhew), attempts to free Princess Leia (Fisher) from the clutches of the tyrannical Galactic Empire. It began a new generation of special effects and high-energy motion pictures. 723,315 [223] Additional nominations included Alec Guinness for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, which went to Jason Robards for Julia and George Lucas for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, which were instead awarded to Woody Allen's Annie Hall. The films were digitally restored and remastered, and more changes were made by Lucas. The iconic weapon of choice of the Jedi, the lightsaber, was voted as the most popular weapon in film history in a survey of approximately 2,000 film fans. Billy Dee Williams, Votes: [18] Elstree was chosen due to its proximity to North Africa and the availability of top technical crews. Clips from both films were included in Lucas's temporary dogfight footage version of the sequence. As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace. The publication said it was a "big early supporter" of the vision which would become Star Wars. A few critics found fault in the lack of representation of African Americans in the space fantasy, with a writer for New Journal and Guide calling it "one of the most racist movies ever produced", pointing out that "the force of evil ... is dressed in all black and has the voice of a black man. [68] Scott, Cameron, and Jackson were influenced by Lucas's concept of the "used future" (where vehicles and culture are obviously dated) and extended the concept for their films, such as Scott's science fiction films Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982), Cameron's acclaimed sequel Aliens (1986) and his earlier breakthrough film The Terminator (1984). To achieve this, he hired the British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor. [227], The film also received twelve nominations at the Saturn Awards, winning nine: Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction and Best Writing for George Lucas, Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness, Best Music for John Williams, Best Costume for John Mollo, Best Make-up for Rick Baker and Stuart Freeborn, Best Special Effects for John Dykstra and John Stears, and Outstanding Editing for Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew.[228]. De Palma and Jay Cocks helped edit the text into the form used in the film. "[109] Frank Herbert reported that "David Lynch, [director of the 1984 film Dune] had trouble with the fact that Star Wars used up so much of Dune." LOS ANGELES - Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who first donned a helmet, cape and jetpack to play Boba Fett in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died Thursday. Spielberg disagreed, and believed Star Wars would be the bigger hit. This version ended with another text crawl, previewing the next story in the series. Star Wars, together with Lucas, is the subject of the 2010 documentary film The People vs. George Lucas that details the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the film franchise and its creator. "[156][157][158], Star Wars required extensive recovery of misplaced footage and restoration of the whole film before Lucas's Special Edition modifications could be attempted. [119][120][121][122], Charles Lippincott was the marketing director for Star Wars. [citation needed], An audio CD boxed set of the Star Wars radio series was released in 1993, containing the original 1981 radio drama along with the radio adaptations of the sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.[299]. [105] Another source of influence was Lawrence of Arabia (1962), which inspired the film's visual approach, including long-lens desert shots. 98 min Lucas began to rewrite this draft, creating a synopsis for the third draft. [198] At the North American box office, it ranks second behind Gone with the Wind on the inflation-adjusted list. "[7], The Elstree sets designed by John Barry, according to Gilbert Taylor, "were like a coal mine." [7]:19, Since commencing his writing process in January 1973, Lucas had done "various rewrites in the evenings after the day's work." $474.54M, PG 704,577 Prior to 1977, 20th Century-Fox's greatest annual profits were $37 million, while in 1977, the company broke that record by posting a profit of $79 million. They think I do weirdo films. Lucas had the idea for a space-fantasy film in 1971, after he completed directing his first full-length feature, THX 1138. Action, Adventure, Fantasy. $310.68M, PG-13 [176], On April 7, 2015, Walt Disney Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Lucasfilm jointly announced the digital releases of the six released Star Wars films. Political intrigue complicates their mission. [117], For the US release in 1977, 20th Century-Fox commissioned a promotional film poster from the advertising agency Smolen, Smith and Connolly. "10 of the best movie trilogies of all-time | 1. 57,231 Gary Kurtz traveled to the Philippines to scout locations; however, because of the idea of spending months filming in the jungle would make Lucas "itchy", the director refined his vision and made Tatooine a desert planet instead. The massive rebel hangar set was housed at a second sound stage at Shepperton Studios; the stage was the largest in Europe at the time. Lucas worked with his friends Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck to revise the fourth draft into the final pre-production script. For example, Luke had several brothers, as well as his father, who appears in a minor role at the end of the film. '"[47] Lucas pursued Alan Ladd Jr., the head of 20th Century-Fox, and in June 1973 completed a deal to write and direct the film. | Gross: "[239] Lucas supplied Rinzler with handwritten notes that suggest it was to be a "prelude" film, a "Clone Wars" trilogy, a bridge film, the classic trilogy, and four sequels. [151] Although most changes are minor or cosmetic in nature, many fans and critics believe that Lucas degraded the film with the additions. News reports of the film's popularity in America caused long lines to form at the two London theaters that first offered the film; it became available in 12 large cities in January 1978, and other London theaters in February. Soon as someone comes in through the door, I stand up. | [40] After spending the next two years completing American Graffiti, Lucas turned his attention to his space opera. Lucasfilm are reportedly developing a movie that will tell the origin story of the very first Jedi in Star Wars history. Harrison Ford, "[71] Barry, Christian, and their team began designing the props and sets at Elstree Studios. Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope This film introduces the characters of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, as well as the iron-fisted regime of the Galactic Empire. When Lucas went out for lunch with Marcia, they encountered a long line of people along the sidewalks leading to Mann's Chinese Theatre, waiting to see Star Wars. He based Chewbacca on his Alaskan Malamute dog, Indiana (whom he would later use as eponym for his character Indiana Jones), who often acted as the director's "co-pilot" by sitting in the passenger seat of his car. 140 min [273], Star Wars was voted the second most popular film by Americans in a 2008 nationwide poll conducted by the market research firm, Harris Interactive. Having forgotten that the film would open that day,[128] he spent most of Wednesday in a sound studio in Los Angeles. [e][177][178] In December 2016, Rogue One director Gareth Edwards revealed that Lucasfilm had recently completed a 4K restoration of Star Wars, but did not elaborate on whether the restored version was based on the 1977 original or a subsequent re-release. The best Star Wars order at a glance. [68] Christopher Nolan cited Star Wars as an influence when making the 2010 blockbuster film, Inception. A sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, was released in 1980. [36] Lucas would later claim that he had the idea for an original space opera long before 1971,[37] and that he even tried to film it before American Grafitti. Director: "[206], When Star Wars opened in the UK, stating that Lucas's earlier films were better, Derek Malcolm of The Guardian concluded that it "plays enough games to satisfy the most sophisticated. [117][118], The logotype eventually selected for on-screen use originated in a promotional brochure that was distributed by Fox to cinema owners in 1976. Christopher Lee, Votes: [47] With a background in independent filmmaking, Lucas was accustomed to creating most of the elements of the film himself. Lucas inspired ILM by editing together aerial dogfights from old war films, which enhanced the pacing of the scenes. "[63] Lucas recounted what De Palma said the first time he saw it: "George, you're out of your mind! It's like a poem." [7], During the chaos of production and post-production, the team made decisions about character voicing and sound effects. And he says, 'Well, I'll just invent my own. [134] [7] The process of creating the new visual effects for Star Wars was featured in the documentary film, Special Effects: Anything Can Happen, directed by Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt. The plot is simple—good against evil—and the film is designed to be all the fun things and fantasy things I remember. [129] Approximately 60 theaters played the film continuously for over a year;[130] in 1978, Lucasfilm distributed "Birthday Cake" posters to those theaters for special events on May 25, the one-year anniversary of the film's release. The lighting approach Taylor devised "allowed George to shoot in almost any direction without extensive relighting, which gave him more freedom. For the fourth film released, see, 1977 American epic space-opera film directed by George Lucas. [62] Director Brian De Palma, who was there, described it: "The crawl at the beginning looks like it was written on a driveway. [7]:17:30 Subsequently, Lucas started writing with a budget in mind, conceiving the cheap, "used" look of much of the film, and (with Fox having just shut down its special effects department) had reduced the number of complex special effects shots called for by the script. At one point, the project became so demanding that Lucas was diagnosed with hypertension and exhaustion and was warned to reduce his stress level. [239] By 1979, Lucas claimed to have eliminated the odd films,[232] leaving a "trilogy of trilogies"; and by 1999 he often denied having promised a sequel trilogy, saying it was "a media invention,"[240] before again reminding audiences that "there are three more stories" beginning with the sale to Disney in 2012. [5][6] At the time, it was the most recent film in the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. [45], While impressed with the "innocence of the story, plus the sophistication of the world"[38] of the film, United Artists declined to budget the film. Hirsch and Chew worked on two reels simultaneously. During work on this rewrite, Lucas began researching the science-fiction genre by watching films and reading books (including JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit[53][54]) and comics. [196] In total, the film has earned $775,398,007 worldwide (including $460,998,007 in North America alone). [26] Alex McCrindle portrays General Jan Dodonna, Alfie Curtis portrays Dr. Evazan and Peter Geddis portrays Captain Raymus Antilles. Lucas signed off on the brochure in between takes while filming inserts for the Mos Eisley Cantina scene. The adaptation was written by Brian Daley and directed by John Madden, and was produced with cooperation from George Lucas, who donated the rights to NPR. The release was met with criticism as the unaltered versions were from the 1993 non-anamorphic LaserDisc masters and were not re-transferred using modern video standards. [33] Animation, Action, Adventure. "[47], Lucas explained in 1977 that the film is not "about the future" and that it "is a fantasy much closer to the Brothers Grimm than it is to 2001." Lucas showed his draft to his friends. [7], Jympson's original assembly contained a large amount of footage which differed from the final cut of the film, including several alternate takes and a number of scenes which were subsequently deleted to improve the narrative pace. So we simplified it by taking out Luke and Biggs. The original Star Wars trilogy is considered one of the best film trilogies in history. Lucas also wanted the spaceships to look "cobbled together, as opposed to a sleek monoshape. "[293] In 2012, the Star Wars action figures were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Then, it was obvious that 8 million wasn't going to do it—they had approved 8 million." Lucas would later deny having ever conceived of using extant music in the film. Lucas chose Hotel Sidi Driss, which is larger than the typical underground dwellings, to shoot the interior of Luke's homestead. [202] Writing for The Washington Post, Gary Arnold gave the film a positive review, writing that the film "is a new classic in a rousing movie tradition: a space swashbuckler. $290.48M, TV-G … "[87] After attempting to persuade Jympson to cut the film his way, Lucas replaced him with Paul Hirsch, Richard Chew and his then-wife, Marcia Lucas, who was also cutting the film New York, New York (1977) with Lucas's friend Martin Scorsese. 94 min While the original movie from 1977 was originally titled simply "Star Wars", it was later amended to be known as Star Wars: Episode 4 – A New Hope. Rice's response to her brief was to use an outlined, modified Helvetica Black. Hardware Wars, released in 1978, was one of the first fan films to parody Star Wars. Reissues in 1979 ($22,455,262), 1981 ($17,247,363), and 1982 ($17,981,612) brought its cumulative gross in the U.S and Canada to $323 million,[191][192] and extended its global earnings to $530 million. At the same time, the heroes try to deliver the plans for the Empire's planet-destroying space station, the Death Star, which are carried by the droids R2-D2 (Baker) and C-3PO (Daniels), to the Rebel Alliance, but face opposition from the Sith Lord Darth Vader (Prowse, voiced by Jones). [193] The film remained the highest-grossing film of all time until E.T. "[67] It took him several weeks to finish the chess set (which he described as "the most encrusted set") in the hold of the Falcon. $322.74M, PG [7][21] Lucas envisioned the Corellian smuggler, Han Solo, as a large, green-skinned monster with gills. The film was digitally remastered with some altered scenes in 1997 for a theatrical rerelease, dubbed the "Special Edition." | Gross: Let me sit down and write this for you." Lucas was looking for a way of accelerating the storytelling, and removing Luke's early scenes would distinguish Star Wars from his earlier teenage drama and "get that American Graffiti feel out of it. "[67], The designers started working with the director before Star Wars was approved by 20th Century-Fox. Ladd reluctantly agreed to release an extra $20,000 funding and in early 1977 second unit filming completed a number of sequences including exterior desert shots for Tatooine in Death Valley and China Lake Acres in California, and exterior Yavin jungle shots in Guatemala, along with additional studio footage to complete the Mos Eisley Cantina sequence. [85] Editor John Jympson began cutting the film together while Lucas was still filming in Tunisia; as Lucas noted, the editor was in an "impossible position" because Lucas had not explained any of the film's material to him. Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory. In 1989, it became one of the first 25 films that was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". After disabling the tractor beam, Obi-Wan sacrifices his life in a lightsaber duel with Vader, allowing the rest of the group to escape the Death Star with Leia. Other similarities include those between Princess Leia and Princess Alia, and Jedi mind tricks and "The Voice", a controlling ability used by the Bene Gesserit. At the same time, after production fell behind schedule, Ladd told Lucas he had to finish production within a week or he would be forced to shut down production. [276], Little Star Wars merchandise was available for several months after the film's debut, as only Kenner Products had accepted marketing director Charles Lippincott's licensing offers. Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. The droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. ", "John Wayne secretly appeared in both 'Wagon Train' and 'Star Wars, "A young, enthusiastic crew employs far-out technology to put a rollicking intergalactic fantasy onto the screen", "Abandoned 'Star Wars' Plot Points Episode II: The Force Behind the Scenes", "George Lucas Wrote 'Star Wars' as a Liberal Warning. But some actors really need a lot of pampering and a lot of feedback, and if they don't get it, they get paranoid that they might not be doing a good job." [152][153][154][155] A particularly controversial change in which a bounty hunter named Greedo shoots first when confronting Han Solo has inspired T-shirts bearing the phrase "Han Shot First. I said, 'You know a lot about the film.' Star Wars debuted on Betamax,[163] CED,[164] LaserDisc,[165] Video 2000, and VHS[166][167] between the 1980s and 1990s by CBS/Fox Video. [181] This version of the film was released by Disney on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray box set on March 31, 2020. [297], Lucasfilm adapted the story for a children's book-and-record set. Adventure, Family, Fantasy. Wilford Brimley, [7] The original soundtrack was released as a double LP in 1977 by 20th Century Records. The pair found "sixteen points of identity" and they calculated that "the odds against coincidence produced a number larger than the number of stars in the universe. [104], According to Lucas, different concepts of the film were inspired by numerous sources, such as Beowulf and King Arthur for the origins of myth and religion. "[31] Lucas would later recontextualize the discussion around the film, saying it was born out of research into "psychological underpinings of mythology", a claim that had been dismissed by Kurtz as self-aggrandizing: "The whole idea of Star Wars as a mythological thing, I think came about because of [later Lucas] interviews that tied it to The Hero with a Thousand Faces"[49] and by Steven Hart and Michael Kaminski: "It is here that the true origin of Star Wars comes from -- not from myth and legend, but from the 'schlock' sold on newspapers stands and played in matinees. Francis Ford Coppola, who needed money to finish Apocalypse Now, sent a telegram to Lucas's hotel asking for funding. [101], In March 1977, Williams conducted the London Symphony Orchestra to record the Star Wars soundtrack in 12 days. Stars: While Han abandons the Rebels after collecting his reward for rescuing Leia, Luke joins their starfighter squadron in a desperate attack against the approaching Death Star. 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