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History of Star Wars Movies

You might be confused in the Stars Wars movies that have been a big hit in the big screen. The history of star wars movies can provide you how the hit movie started and made it to one of the most top grossing film in the movie industry. This modern phenomenon that revolved around the life story of Luke Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker has greatly influenced the movie perception of the western world. The history of stars wars could be date back with the textbook written for Anakin Skywalker’s rise to being a Jedi, to his fall, love interest and his coming back to power again.


George Lucas, the one responsible for the creation of Stars wars has written a basic story about Anakin Skywalker. The story was divided into trilogies for it was written in a very long manner. Lucas initially offered the story of the movie to Universal Studios but was rejected thinking the story was ridiculous. 20th Century Fox accepted the movie and released the first original trilogy in 1977 which became an instant hit. The worldwide phenomenon Stars Wars got spread like a popular culture among movie viewers and critics. The history of star wars movies tells us how the movie was a culture happening which was immediately followed by two other sequels in an interval of every three years.


The history of star wars movies would tell that the an episode entitled A new Hope which was shown in the theaters in May, 1977 was a big sensation in North America and accumulated hundreds of million dollars in its showing day in terms of its ticket sales. The next sequel released in 1980, The Empire Strike Back had a total cost of more than $30 million. But despite the overrun of the high cost, the film itself was able to gross a total of $220 million, being recognized as one of the top grossing films of all time.


George Lucas announced in May 1996 that it has already signed an agreement with Pepsico to film the new prequel trilogies, which involves setting the story years before the original trilogy. The years that follow this announcement marked the coming back of the Star War movies in theaters. The history of star wars movies dates back during the post-1978 when it was such a big hit and received so much appreciation from the viewing public. People used to wait in line to go see star wars movies. Even recently during the release of the new movies people would go wait for hours just to get a good seat and make sure the tickets were not sold out.


The history of star wars movies from the time George Lucas is still conceptualizing the story features a futuristic effect where the main characters are concerned with Jedi’s, knights, princesses and creatures outside the galaxy. By the year 1997, Lucas released special edition versions of Star Wars movies which was edited and improved with the new technology in video formatting. After two decades, the prequel trilogy continued the legacy of the original trilogy; the Phantom Menace was released on May 19, 1999; Attack of the clones on May 16, 2002 and the Revenge of the Sith which was released on May 19, 2005.

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