Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, and currently marketed as simply Star Wars: A New Hope is a 1977 film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the Star Wars original trilogy . The film is set nineteen years after the formation of the Galactic Empire; construction has finished on the Death Star, a weapon capable of destroying a planet. After Princess Leia Organa, a leader of the Rebel Alliance, receives the weapon’s plans in the hope of finding a weakness, she is captured and taken to the Death Star. Meanwhile, a young farmer named Luke Skywalker meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived in seclusion for years on the desert planet of Tatooine. When Luke’s home is burned and his aunt and uncle killed, Obi-Wan begins Luke’s Jedi training as theyâalong with Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2âattempt to rescue the princess from the Empire.
Inspired by films like the Flash Gordon serials and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas began working in Star Wars in 1974.
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