Star Wars (1977)

Star Wars (also known in later releases as Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope and Star Wars: A New Hope) is a  space-opera film written and directed by. The film is the first installment in the  franchise (in release order) and stars Mark Hammill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness. The film focuses on Luke Skywalker, who teams up with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookie and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying station while attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. It was first released in cinemas in the US on May 25, 1977 to highly positive reviews. The film was later succeded by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) and the three original films are officially known by Lucasfilm as the Original Trilogy. A prequel trilogy later followed that connected the events of the original trilogy of films consisting of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith were released in 1999, 2002 and 2005 respectively. While a sequel trilogy that continued cronogically after the events of Return of the Jedi consisting of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker were released in 2015, 2018 and 2019 respectively as well as television shows, books, comics among others that interconnect the Star Wars timeline.

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