Star
wars
Star
Wars is an epic science fantasy saga created by George Lucas. This
American epic space opera franchise became a worldwide pop culture
phenomenon, spawning two immediate sequels, released at three-year
intervals. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy's final film,
the first in a new prequel trilogy of films was released, again
released at three-year intervals, with the final film released on May
19, 2005.
The Star Wars film series has spawned other media including
books, television series, video games, and comic books. These
supplements to the film trilogies comprise the Star Wars Expanded
Universe, and have resulted in significant development of the series'
fictional universe. These media kept the franchise going in the interim
between the film trilogies. In 2008, Star Wars: The
Clone Wars was released to theaters as the first ever
worldwide theatrical Star Wars film outside of the main
trilogies. It was the franchise's first animated film, and was intended
as an introduction to the Expanded Universe series of the same name, a
3D CGI animated series based on a previous 2D animated series of a
similar name.
Since 1982, dozens of video games have been published bearing the Star
Wars name, beginning with Star Wars: The
Empire Strikes Back published for the Atari 2600 by Parker
Brothers. Since then, Star Wars has opened the way to a myriad
of space-flight simulation games, first-person shooter games,
roleplaying games, RTS games, and others. Two different official
tabletop role-playing games have been developed for the Star Wars
universe: a version by West End Games in the 1980s and 1990s, and one
by Wizards of the Coast in the 2000s.
At Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo 2010, Steve Sansweet,
Lucasfilm's Director of Fan Relations, revealed that "a very full set
of all six movies on Blu-ray with lots of extra material" is being
prepared for release.
