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The franchise-originating film was released in 1977, under the title Star Wars.The subtitle Episode IV – A New Hope was retroactively added to the opening crawl for the theatrical re-release on April 10, 1981, [13] [37] to align with the titling of the sequel, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Phil Brown (A New Hope), [22] Joel Edgerton (Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, and Obi-Wan Kenobi) [22] Uncle and surrogate parent of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, Owen and his wife, Beru, are killed by stormtroopers at their home on Tatooine. In the prequel films, Owen is the son of Cliegg Lars and stepbrother of Anakin Skywalker.
Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
Anakin Skywalker is a major character in Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Republic series (1998–2006). In Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire (1999), Vader hires Fett a few years before the events of A New Hope. In Vader's Quest (1999), set soon after A New Hope, the dark lord encounters Luke for the first time.
Jake Lloyd, the former child actor who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, feels “pretty good" at the start of 2025. Lloyd, now 35, recently completed an 18 ...
In the original film trilogy, he is a Jedi Master who trains Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Force. In the prequel trilogy, he mentors Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker. Obi-Wan is portrayed by Alec Guinness in the original trilogy and by Ewan McGregor in the prequel films. McGregor also plays the character in the television series Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Palpatine uses the crisis to get elected as the new Chancellor of the Republic. He then returns to Naboo, where he befriends the nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker , telling the boy, "We will watch your career with great interest." [54]
One of our favorite "Star Wars" films happens to be "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace," in which we meet young Anakin Skywalker.