Star Wars
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Biography
Star Wars is an American media franchise created by George Lucas. The space opera saga began with the original Star Wars film (1977) and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
"Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)"
"Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)"
"Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)"
"Star Wars: Droids (1985)"
"Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005)"
"Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014; 2020)"
"Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018)"
"Star Wars Forces of Destiny (2017–2018)"
"Star Wars Resistance (2018–2020)"
"The Mandalorian (2019–present)"
"Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021–2024)"
"The Book of Boba Fett (2021–2022)"
"Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)"
"Star Wars Tales (2022-present)"
"Andor (2022–present)"
"Vader Episode I: Shards of the Past (2018, fan film)"
"Vader Episode II: The Amethyst Blade (upcoming fan film sequel)"
"General David Petraeus didn't personally kill Osama bin Laden. Why does “General” Han Solo lead a squad to take out the shield generator? His friends Admiral Akbar and General Calrissian, along with the rest of the rebel command structure, are above, fighting in a short-range gun battle with Imperial Star Destroyers."
"The Star Wars series started out as a movie that ended up being so big that I took each act and cut it into its own movie...The original concept really related to a father and a son, and twins—a son and a daughter. It was that relationship that was the core of the story. And it went through a lot of machinations before I even got to the first draft screenplay. And various characters changed shapes and sizes. And it isn't really until it evolved into what is close to what Star Wars now is that I began to go back and deal with the stories that evolved to get us to that point...When I first did Star Wars I did it as a big piece. It was like a big script. It was way too big to make into a movie. So I took the first third of it, which is basically the first act, and I turned that into what was the original Star Wars...after Star Wars was successful and I said “Well gee, I can finish this entire script, and I can do the other two parts."
"You have to remember that originally Star Wars was intended to be one movie, Episode IV of a Saturday matinee serial. You never saw what came before or what came after. It was designed to be the tragedy of Darth Vader. It starts with this monster coming through the door, throwing everybody around, then halfway through the movie you realise that the villain of the piece is actually a man and the hero is his son. And so the villain turns into the hero inspired by the son. It was meant to be one movie, but I broke it up because I didn’t have the money to do it like that—it would have been five hours long."
"The first [version] talked about a princess and an old general. The second version involved a father, his son, and his daughter; the daughter was the heroine of the film. Now the daughter has become Luke, Mark Hamill's character. There was also the story of two brothers where I transformed one of them into a sister. The older brother was imprisoned, and the young sister had to rescue him and bring him back to their dad."
"The part that I never really developed is the death of Luke and Leia's mother. I had a backstory for her in earlier drafts, but it basically didn't survive. When I got to Jedi, I wanted one of the kids to have some kind of memory of her because she will be a key figure in the new episodes I'm writing. But I really debated whether or not Leia should remember her."
"Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely have been no Star Wars."
"These are my kids. I loved them, I created them, I'm very intimately involved with them and I sold them to the white slavers that take these things..."
"Back in a 1973 note on “Star Wars,” Lucas made clear which side he was rooting for in the Vietnam War: “A large technological empire going after a small group of freedom fighters.”"