However, the Star Wars franchise itself has not ended, and is continuing to move on past the story of the original saga with shows like The Mandalorian and the upcoming project known as the Star Wars: The High Republic. HistoryOriginal Trilogy...
News and discussion surrounding everything Star Wars, from 1976 to today. Particularly focused on preserving the original trilogy (Episodes IV through VI) for future generations.
Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, marketed as simply The Empire Strikes Back, is a 1980 film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas. It is the second part of the Star Wars original trilogy. ...
By “a couple of books”, I literally mean one to maybe three at the most of the old ones [and I don’t even include the Thrawn Trilogy – I could barely get past the strange, exotic drink known as “hot chocolate” in the first book, and they never felt like ...
Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay by William Walton Granger was from a story by George Lucas, who had created the series but w
It took me a while, but I finally found a DVD set that included the original, unaltered movie as—I’m not kidding—a “bonus feature.”) Why I Chose It: I admit, it is hard to think of any movie franchise that has suffered such a universal backlash as Star Wars, and it's all...
For those of you who are missing the original fanfare, there is a silver lining – due to Twentieth Century Fox still owning part of the distributive rights to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the original, unaltered Fox fanfare that would segue into the iconic Star Wars theme still appe...
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first part of the Star Wars original trilogy and the first Star Wars film released. The film is set 19 years after the form