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  • [104] The first “Expanded Universe” story appeared in Marvel Comics’ Star Wars #7 in January 1978 (the first six issues being an adaptation of the film), followed by Foster’s
    sequel novel Splinter of the Mind’s Eye the following month.

  • Star Wars was released on May 25, 1977, and first subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope in the 1979 book The Art of Star Wars.

  • A single-player action-adventure game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, with an original story and cast of characters, was released in November 2019.

  • [114][115] Steve Perry’s Shadows of the Empire (1996), set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, was part of a multimedia campaign that included a comic
    book series and video game.

  • Focused on how the Rebels obtained the Death Star plans introduced in the 1977 film, the first anthology film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was released on December 16, 2016,
    to favorable reviews and box office success.

  • [92] Series Main article: List of Star Wars television series Many Star Wars series have been produced, both animated and live-action, the first being Droids in 1985.

  • [59][74] However, after beginning work on the prequel trilogy, Lucas insisted that Star Wars was meant to be a six-part series and that there would be no sequel trilogy.

  • [122][123][124] Del Rey took over Star Wars book publishing in 1999, releasing what would become a 19-installment novel series called The New Jedi Order (1999–2003).

  • Lucasfilm and Kennedy have stated that the standalone films would be referred to as the Star Wars anthology series[43] (though the word anthology has not been used in any
    of the titles, instead carrying the promotional “A Star Wars Story” subtitle).

  • The Mandalorian, the first live-action series to take place in the Star Wars universe, has spawned multiple spinoffs and inspired other live-action series to be created.

  • [131] Although Thrawn had been designated a Legends character in 2014, he was reintroduced into the canon in 2016 for the third season of the Rebels animated series, with
    Zahn returning to write more novels based on the character and set in the new canon.

  • [165][166] In 1982, Parker Brothers published the first Star Wars video game for the Atari 2600, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,[167] followed soon the year later by Star
    Wars: Jedi Arena, the first video game to depict lightsaber combat.

  • Eight live-action Star Wars series will be released on Disney+.

  • [2] Other media From 1976 to 2014, the term Expanded Universe (EU) was an umbrella term for all officially licensed Star Wars storytelling material set outside the events
    depicted within the theatrical films, including novels, comics, and video games.

  • The original film (Star Wars), retroactively subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), was followed by the sequels Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Episode VI:
    Return of the Jedi (1983), forming the original Star Wars trilogy.

  • The 1977 installments were the first original Star Wars stories not directly adapted from the films to appear in print form, as they preceded those of the Star Wars comic
    series.

  • [157] Audio novels Further information: The Story of Star Wars and List of Star Wars books The first Star Wars audio work is The Story of Star Wars, an LP using audio samples
    from the original film and a new narration to retell the story, released in 1977.

  • Further animated series began to be released in the 2000s, the first two of which focused on the Clone Wars.

  • [81][82] The sequel trilogy also meant the end of the existing Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was discarded from canon to give “maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers
    and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience.

  • Star Wars is an American epic space-opera[1] multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film[b] and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture
    phenomenon.

  • An anthology series set between the main episodes entered development in parallel to the production of the sequel trilogy,[41] described by Disney chief financial officer
    Jay Rasulo as origin stories.

  • In 1993, LucasArts released Star Wars: X-Wing, the first self-published Star Wars video game and the first space flight simulator based on the franchise.

  • [144] In the late 1980s, Marvel dropped a new Star Wars comic it had in development, which was picked up by Dark Horse Comics and published as the popular Dark Empire series
    (1991–1995).

  • [57] The 1977 movie’s success led Lucas to make it the basis of an elaborate film serial.

  • The Star Wars canon was subsequently restructured to only include the existing six feature films, the animated film The Clone Wars (2008), and its companion animated series.

  • [89] Disney+ later released the Ewoks movies and animated series, along with the animated first appearance of Boba Fett from the Star Wars Holiday Special, and the Clone Wars
    animated micro-series in a section called “Star Wars Vintage”, which also includes the Droids animated series.

  • [98][99] It includes the animated Star Wars Rebels, Andor, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and the original trilogy films.

  • [18] Films The Star Wars film series centers around three sets of trilogies, the nine films of which are collectively referred to as the “Skywalker Saga”.

  • Print media Star Wars in print predates the release of the first film, with the November 1976 novelization of Star Wars, initially subtitled “From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker”.

  • Involving the majority of the current officially licensed publishers, a new era set 200 years before the Skywalker Saga will be explored in various books and comics.

  • [93] The Expanded Universe of spin-off media depicts different levels of continuity, which were deemed non-canonical and rebranded as Legends on April 25, 2014, to make most
    subsequent works align to the episodic films, The Clone Wars film, and television series.

  • [171] The Rogue Squadron series was released between 1998 and 2003, also focusing on space battles set during the films.

  • LucasArts and modern self-published games (1993–2014) Main article: LucasArts Lucasfilm founded its own video game company in 1982, becoming best known for adventure games
    and World War II flight combat games, but as George Lucas took more interest in the increasing success of the video game market, he wanted to have more creative control over the games and founded his own development company, LucasArts.

  • Lucasfilm has a number of Star Wars films in development, two of which were confirmed during Disney Investor Day 2020.

  • [145] Dark Horse subsequently launched dozens of series set after the original film trilogy, including Tales of the Jedi (1993–1998), X-wing Rogue Squadron (1995–1998), Star
    Wars: Republic (1998–2006), Star Wars Tales (1999–2005), Star Wars: Empire (2002–2006), and Knights of the Old Republic (2006–2010).

  • [88] Television The Star Wars franchise has been spun off to various television productions, including two animated series released in the mid-1980s.

  • Written by multiple authors, the series was set 25 to 30 years after the original films and introduced the Yuuzhan Vong, a powerful alien race attempting to invade and conquer
    the entire galaxy.

  • According to producer Gary Kurtz, loose plans for a prequel trilogy were developed during the outlining of the original two films.

  • Prior to releasing the original film, and made possible by its success, Lucas planned “three trilogies of nine films.

  • The television series Obi-Wan Kenobi was originally going to be a film instead but changed to a limited series due to Solo underperforming.

  • The second, Solo: A Star Wars Story, centered on a young Han Solo with Chewbacca and Lando as supporting characters, was released on May 25, 2018, to generally favorable reviews
    and underperformance at the box office.

  • Together with the original trilogy, Lucas has collectively referred to the first six episodic films of the franchise as “the tragedy of Darth Vader”.

  • [61] In 1980, Lucas confirmed that he had the nine-film series plotted,[62] but due to the stress of producing the original trilogy, he had decided to cancel further sequels
    by 1981.

  • [47][48] In September 2019, it was announced that Kathleen Kennedy and Kevin Feige would collaborate to develop a Star Wars film,[49] however the film was no longer in active
    development as of 2022.

  • [116][117] The novel introduced the crime lord Prince Xizor, another popular character who would appear in multiple other works.

  • In 1971, George Lucas wanted to film an adaptation of the Flash Gordon serial, but could not obtain the rights, so he began developing his own space opera.

  • Together with the theatrical live action “anthology” films Rogue One (2016) and Solo (2018), the combined box office revenue of the films equated to over US$10 billion, which
    makes it the second-highest-grossing film franchise of all time.

  • [51] In May 2022, the Waititi film was expected to be the next Star Wars film to be produced, ahead of the previously announced Rogue Squadron, with Kennedy stating that they
    were aiming for a late 2023 release date but had not yet officially scheduled one.

  • Dark Forces (1995), a hybrid adventure game incorporating puzzles and strategy,[172] was the first Star Wars first-person shooter.

  • [108][109][110][111] The first novel, Heir to the Empire, reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list,[112] and the series finds Luke, Leia, and Han facing off against
    tactical genius Thrawn, who is plotting to retake the galaxy for the Empire.

  • Existing works would no longer be considered canon to the franchise and subsequent reprints would be rebranded under the Star Wars Legends label,[103] with downloadable content
    for the massively multiplayer online game The Old Republic the only Legends material to still be produced.

  • Games made during this era are considered canonical, and feature more influence from the Star Wars filmmakers.

  • Super Star Wars (1992) was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, with two sequels over the next two years.

  • [42] The first entry, Rogue One (2016), tells the story of the rebels who steal the Death Star plans just before Episode IV.

  • [150][151][152] First announced as Project Luminous at Star Wars Celebration in April 2019, full details of a publishing initiative called Star Wars: The High Republic were
    revealed in a press conference in February 2020.

  • [170] Platform games were made for the Nintendo Entertainment System, including the Japan-exclusive Star Wars (1987), an international Star Wars (1991), and Star Wars: The
    Empire Strikes Back (1992).

  • [159][163] Video games Further information: Star Wars video games and List of Star Wars video games The Star Wars franchise has spawned over one hundred[164] computer, video,
    and board games, dating back to some of the earliest home consoles.

  • [59] Most of the main cast would return for the two additional installments of the original trilogy, which were self-financed by Lucasfilm.

  • [75][76] Lucas decided to leave the franchise in the hands of other filmmakers, announcing in January 2012 that he would make no more Star Wars films.

  • The first will be an unspecified film from Taika Waititi, who in May 2020 was announced to be directing a Star Wars film he was co-writing with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.

  • Star Wars games have gone through three significant development eras, marked by a change in leadership among the developers: the early licensed games, those developed after
    the creation of LucasArts, and those created after the closure of the Lucasfilm division by Disney and the transfer of the license to Electronic Arts.

  • [12] One result of that is a mystical power known as the Force which is described in the original film as “an energy field created by all living things … [that] binds the
    galaxy together”.

  • [160][163] In the 1990s, Time Warner Audio Publishing adapted several Star Wars series from Dark Horse Comics into audio dramas: the three-part Dark Empire saga, Tales of
    the Jedi, Dark Lords of the Sith, the Dark Forces trilogy, and Crimson Empire (1998).

  • [153] Audio Soundtracks and singles Further information: Music of Star Wars John Williams composed the soundtracks for the nine episodic films; he has stated that he will
    retire from the franchise with The Rise of Skywalker.

  • [149] Launched in 2015, the first three publications were titled Star Wars, Darth Vader, and the limited series Princess Leia.

  • Some are based directly on the movie material, while others rely heavily on the non-canonical Expanded Universe (rebranded as Star Wars Legends and removed from the canon
    in 2014).

  • Early licensed games (1979–1993) The first officially licensed electronic Star Wars game was Kenner’s 1979 table-top Star Wars Electronic Battle Command.

  • [60] Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released on May 21, 1980, also achieving wide financial and critical success.

  • [184] EA Star Wars (2014–present) Following its acquisition of the franchise, Disney reassigned video game rights to Electronic Arts.

  • Premise The Star Wars franchise depicts the adventures of characters “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”,[5] in which humans and many species of aliens (often humanoid)
    co-exist with robots (typically referred to in the films as ‘droids’), who may assist them in their daily routines; space travel between planets is common due to lightspeed hyperspace technology.

  • [171] It was one of the best-selling video games of 1993 and established its own series of games.

 

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