Critics often point to the fact that George Lucas wanted a saga with an ultimately happy ending, yet the current direction of the EU indicates a revival of the Sith that even Luke Skywalker cannot stop. The saga chronologically begins with the so-called Big Bang , the creation of the universe. Over billions of years, the galaxy slowly formed. The earliest Expanded Universe stories chronologically are those in Dawn of the Jedi. Thousands of years later, series about the training of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Naboo Crisis introduce the characters and situations that form the backbone of the story told in the films.
The story then revolves around the Skywalker family and their friends and adversaries. The Skywalkers are involved in every important event from that point forward. The first three of these are live-action, and were originally made for TV, though the Ewok film was shown in theaters in some locations outside the U. Rogue One and Solo are live-action standalone films.
An originally minor detail, the Wookiee food wookiee-ookiees became a cult symbol in the Star Wars fan universe, spawning plays on its name such as wookiee-cookiees a Star Wars —themed dessert.
The term "Wookiee hooky" was used by media to reference high absenteeism to see a recently released Star Wars film. Additionally, other filmmakers with no connection to Lucasfilm have made films that salute, document, parody, or unofficially extend Star Wars. Mel Brooks ' Spaceballs parodies Star Wars and some other science-fiction works. Animation formed another component Star Wars. Ewoks featured the adventures of the Ewoks prior to Return of the Jedi. A live-action TV show was announced by Lucasfilm in , but little more has been heard since then.
Star Wars —based fiction predates the release of the first movie, with the novelisation of A New Hope by Alan Dean Foster but credited to George Lucas released some months before the film itself. Foster also wrote the first original Star Wars novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye , the publication of which inaugurated a very successful literary spin-off franchise. The six Star Wars movies have provided a basis for over a hundred novels. The novels have been authorised by Lucasfilm, and were previously published by Bantam Books with a few early titles published by Ballantine , though Del Rey now holds the contract again.
The stories told in these books reach back thousands of years before The Phantom Menace to several generations after Return of the Jedi.
Books authorised by Lucas are written by fans of the films, and are part of a collection known as Expanded Universe. The first books considered to be part of the Expanded Universe began to appear in the late s. Most of the novels that have been written take place after the events of the films, with a few that take place between the movies, and a growing number set before the films. For some fans, these can be more exciting stories, as they provide narratives for many characters who only have a minor roles, or are only briefly seen, in the movies.
In addition to focusing on relatively minor characters, it bridges some events between the two films. Also, a few elements first introduced in the Expanded Universe were later included in the films. Such include Coruscant and Aayla Secura. Aside from books providing narratives, there are also reference books which detail things about the Star Wars universe in a nonfiction style, revealing details that cannot fit into a story.
Star Wars: Empire to the Last Man cover. Marvel Comics published adaptations of the original trilogy as well as a Star Wars comic book series which lasted from to , a total of issues and 3 annuals. In the s, as part of their Star Comics line oriented towards young children, Marvel also published the short-lived series Ewoks and Droids , based on the Saturday-morning cartoons.
Star Wars was also a daily newspaper comic strip from to , written for the bulk of its run by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Al Williamson. Beginning in the s, Dark Horse Comics has published a large number of original adventures set in the Star Wars universe. Dark Horse has also published collections of the Marvel series in seven volumes and the comic strip as Classic Star Wars. The first games based on the franchise were released on the Atari While simplistic, the game captured the essence of the movie as well as technology allowed.
Several other games appeared, like Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle , where the player controlled the Millennium Falcon in a mission to destroy the second Death Star, and Jedi Arena , the first game to attempt to simulate a lightsaber battle in this case, clearly inspired by the scene in A New Hope , where Luke Skywalker trains with a seeker.
In this game the player takes on the role of Luke Skywalker towards the end of the film in which Luke battles through many TIE fighters in an attempt to destroy the first Death Star. Due to the video-game crash of , which killed the home-console market, no further games based on the franchise were released until , when the platformer Star Wars was released for both the NES and Game Boy, and one year later, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back reused the engine with the plotline of the fifth episode of the saga.
Video game pioneer Atari produced arcade games based on the original trilogy, beginning with Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back , which were both flight-simulator -style games that utilized vector graphics. It returns to the space-fighter combat gameplay not seen since the Atari arcade games.
Players generally played as a pilot for the Rebel Alliance, completing a variety of goals, culminating in the destruction of the Death Star. The longest running series of computer games is the groundbreaking Dark Forces series. This first person shooter series began in with Star Wars: Dark Forces. And the fourth and last release was Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy , which originated as an expansion pack for Jedi Outcast , but evolved into a game of its own.
The first title was also available for PCs, and all were developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , published in , won "Game of the Year" recognition from several prominent gaming magazines, websites, etc.
The game was set after the events of the Battle of Yavin, and allowed players to create characters of a variety of species and specializations such as Bounty Hunter and Smuggler and choose to ally themselves with the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire. Star Wars: Republic Commando is a tactical shooter computer game featuring the elite commandos of Delta Squad and set during the Clone Wars.
It was released on March 1, In the prequel trilogy, professional models did the non-speaking minor-character roles. For example, Luke Skywalker is told to remain on Dagobah to complete his training rather than rescue his friends from Cloud City , because doing so will "destroy all for which they have fought and suffered. Lucas has identified the idea of a democracy becoming a dictatorship as the fundamental idea of the saga.
He has stated that the saga raises such ideas as the people giving up their power in desperation, and betrayal by their leaders who may think they are doing the right thing while sacrificing freedom. In this way, Star Wars is a cautionary tale in which Lucas, by his own admission, warns people of the danger that is always present to democracy and freedom and has been demonstrated throughout history.
There appear to be anti-technological messages in the films: the primitive Ewoks defeating technological adversaries, and the general idea of technology opposed to humanity, fitting with Lucas' vision. Lucas explicitly attributed the Ewoks' defeat of the Galactic Empire to the exploits of the Vietnamese National Liberation Front otherwise known as the Vietcong that operated during the Vietnam War, and also implied in his draft that the Rebels were similar representations of said theme in the original film.
The main story arc in the films traces the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker , mirrored by political events occurring on a galactic scale. As Anakin is seduced by the dark side, the Republic slides into despotism and war; when Anakin reclaims the Jedi values of peace and justice, the evil Empire that supplanted the Republic is overthrown by the Rebel Alliance.
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I think people of our generation wanted to feel the way they'd felt when they saw those first three movies when they were kids, and George [Lucas] wanted to take our ones in a different direction, he had a different idea.
It was tricky at the time, I remember. But now, all these years later, I'm really aware of what our films meant to the generation they were made for, the children of that time. They really like them. I've met people who, they mean a lot to them, those films, more so than the original three, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding?
There' no source material. We don't have comic books. We don't have page novels. We don't have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be. It's no harder or easier than anything else I do.
It's just that they became really popular for whatever reason while something else didn't. But I like all the movies I make, and I put just as much work into all of them. And it's hard to tell why some of them really become popular and some of them don't.
I mean I know the basic rules, yet when something like Star Wars becomes such an incredible phenomenon there's no way to explain it. Main article: Star Wars Legends. See also: List of books.
See also: List of comics. Take the Star Trek franchise, based on the original television series created by Gene Roddenberry. This franchise inspires similar fandom across generations. Unlike Star Wars , Star Trek grew from TV first, then expanded to film, but the expanded universes—no pun intended—parallel each other in variety and reach. The Star Trek world, like Star Wars , includes a number of television series, animated series, and a slew of films, not to mention endless merchandise.
The Marvel Universe came with even more history than the Star Wars franchise and hundreds of established characters with which to work. This allowed Disney to accelerate movie and TV production, increase the merchandising already in place, and pump out Marvel content at an unprecedented pace.
Of course, Marvel Studios already had some of the plans in place and deserves full credit for the masterful execution from the film Iron Man to now, but the Disney magic in merchandising adds extra revenue to each film.
It is estimated that Disney already made back the purchase price of Marvel by the time the first Avengers film was released.
Obviously, the ability to spin-off from a tentpole film into different areas of content and merchandise is a key advantage that underlies many movie franchises.
Star Wars already has a large universe, with opportunities up and down the narrative stream for new stories. Star Wars also has a lot of merchandising experience, with consumers able to buy just about anything imaginable. This includes figurines, models, T-shirts, stamps, comics, Nerf guns, Lego sets, water bottles, key chains, phone cases, costumes, blankets, beds shaped like the Millennium Falcon, slippers, hats, suggestive Darth Vader underwear, watches, business card holders, lunch boxes, stationery, car accessories, kitchenware, luggage, and much, much more.
With Star Wars now an in-house property, Disney will continue to develop the merchandising and integrate the brand and universe into its resorts business and theme parks. In short, Disney gives Star Wars even more opportunities for merchandising—T-shirts with Mickey Mouse as a Jedi, for example—and new crossover content. The box office receipts of all the movies exceed that amount if you adjust for inflation , and there is a reasonable chance that higher-earning movies are still in the future.
These movies will be backed by a multitude of merchandising and spin-off content that will add value for Disney for years to come. The Walt Disney Company. The Numbers. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for Investopedia. At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page.
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George Lucas has tinkered repeatedly with the original trilogy. Episodes IV through VI were remastered and re-released. The films underwent extensive clean-up and restoration work, and Lucas took advantage of this opportunity to make a number of changes and additions of effects.
In a September interview with CNN , he explains his reasons for the changes:. To me, the special edition ones are the films I wanted to make.
Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work now. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done. I wanted to actually finish the film the way it was meant to be when I was originally doing it.
Thus, he wanted his ambitious space-opera movie to be optimistic and fun. Of course I realise now how crude and badly done they were… loving them that much when they were so awful, I began to wonder what would happen if they were done really well. However, George Lucas could never acquire the rights. He shelved his plans in favour of American Graffiti, his second directorial and a coming-of-age comedy film that released in Early that year, Lucas had begun writing what would become the Star Wars script.
For the central conflict in his story, he took inspiration from the political climate of that time. George Lucas began inventing characters, races, concepts and basically built a whole new universe with its own natural laws.
However, the script was one thing, and actually convincing the studios to finance and produce the film and turn it into reality was another. Science fiction films were not exactly rare back then, but it was not a particularly popular genre.
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