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Lucasfilm films
- The Mandalorian and GroguJon Favreau pitched a Star Wars television series featuring Mandalorians to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in 2017.
- Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars TrilogyEmpire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy is a 2004 documentary that sets out to answer a question most people assume they already know the answer…
- Ewoks: The Battle for EndorThe film premiered on ABC on the 24th of November 1985. It was shot in the middle of 1985 in Marin County, California. Jim and Ken Wheat co-wrote and…
- Star Wars (film)Star Wars opened on the 25th of May 1977, in just 32 theaters across the United States. The cast and crew believed it would be a failure.
- Star Wars original trilogyStar Wars opened in theaters on the 25th of May 1977, and within weeks had displaced Jaws as the highest-grossing film ever made.
- Return of the JediLuke Skywalker stands before the massive jaws of a rancor, his lightsaber glowing green in the dim light of Jabba the Hutt's palace.
- Star Wars prequel trilogyThe Star Wars prequel trilogy begins with a nine-year-old slave boy on the desert planet Tatooine. Two Jedi Knights stumble upon Anakin Skywalker almost by…
- Star Wars: StarfighterShawn Levy flew to London in the mid-2010s specifically to meet with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. He expressed his love for the Star Wars franchise…
- Star Wars: The Last JediIn October 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced a new trilogy of Star Wars films. J.J. Abrams directed the first installment, The Force Awakens…
- The Empire Strikes BackThe Empire Strikes Back opens with a single haunting image: probe droids scattered across the galaxy, hunting. It was the 21st of May 1980, and audiences…
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom MenaceGeorge Lucas returned to the Star Wars franchise in 1993 after a long hiatus that began with the release of Return of the Jedi in 1983.
- Rogue OneIn 2003, visual effects supervisor John Knoll pitched a story called Destroyer of Worlds during the production of Episode III in Sydney.
- Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerA year after the Battle of Crait, Emperor Palpatine sends a message of revenge to the galaxy. Kylo Ren obtains a Sith wayfinder that leads him to the hidden…
- Star Wars: The Force AwakensStar Wars: The Force Awakens arrived in theaters on the 18th of December 2015, carrying a weight that almost no film in history had to bear.
- Star ToursStar Tours opened at Disneyland on the 9th of January 1987, and from the very first day, guests dressed up as Star Wars characters to be part of it.
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the ClonesGeorge Lucas began writing the script for Attack of the Clones in March 2000, just three months before principal photography started.
- Star Wars sequel trilogyThe Star Wars sequel trilogy begins with a confession George Lucas made in 1976, before the first film had even opened. He told Mark Hamill, who plays Luke…
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)Star Wars: The Clone Wars opened not in a galaxy far, far away, but in a boardroom decision that surprised nearly everyone involved.
- American GraffitiGeorge Lucas sat in a Modesto, California diner during the early 1960s and watched teenagers cruise Main Street. He later explained that cruising was gone by…
- Solo: A Star Wars StoryGeorge Lucas began developing a Han Solo prequel in 2012. He commissioned Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay for what would become Solo: A Star Wars…
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyPlans for a fifth Indiana Jones film date back to 1979, when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg made a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce five films.