He would also continue to tweak the script during filming, including adding the death of Obi-Wan after realizing he served no purpose in the ending of the film. Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's portrayal and cast him instead of Kurt Russell, Nick Nolte, [6] Sylvester Stallone, [12] Bill Murray, [13] [14] Christopher Walken, Burt Reynolds, Jack Nicholson, James Caan, [15] Robert De Niro, Kelsey Grammer, [16] Al Pacino, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, or Perry King (who later played Han Solo in the radio plays).

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Luke joins their X-wing starfighter squadron in a desperate attack against the approaching Death Star. Anthony Daniels as C-3PO: A protocol droid affiliated with the Rebellion who is "fluent in over six million forms of communication". It also lacked most special effects; hand-drawn arrows took the place of blaster beams, and when the Millennium Falcon fought TIE fighters, the film cut to footage of World War II dogfights. In 2001 Matt Ford of the BBC awarded the film five out of five stars and wrote, " Star Wars isn't the best film ever made, but it is universally loved.After ILM began to create CGI for Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Jurassic Park, Lucas decided that digital technology had caught up to his "original vision" for Star Wars.

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They had a conversation with Lucas on what he would like the film to appear like, with them creating the desired sets. Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa: The princess of the planet Alderaan who is a member of the Imperial Senate and, secretly, one of the leaders of the Rebel Alliance. Therefore, Lucas assembled his favorite orchestral pieces for the soundtrack, until Williams convinced him that an original score would be unique and more unified, having viewed Lucas's music choices as a temp track.Unsworth was interested in working with the director, and initially accepted the job when it was offered to him by Lucas and Kurtz. According to Lucas, the second draft was over 200 pages long, and led him to split up the story into multiple films spanning over multiple trilogies.

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Lucas chose Hotel Sidi Driss, which is larger than the typical underground dwellings, to shoot the interior of Luke's homestead.After the screening, the audience was silent, leading him to fear that the film would be unsuccessful. Star Wars required extensive recovery of misplaced footage and restoration of the whole film before Lucas's Special Edition modifications could be attempted.

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Each page of the book contained a cropped frame from the movie with an abridged and condensed version of the story. Lucas found the experience shocking and rewarding, having never gained any approval from studio executives before. He said, "He saw me come in and said 'He'll do' because I was the smallest guy they'd seen up until then. The subtitles Episode IV and A New Hope were first published on a title page for the film's script in the 1979 book The Art of Star Wars, [e] in what Kaminski claims as "outright forgery", remarking that "the script itself wasn't even the authentic revised fourth draft, but more like a transcription of the finished film, edited and combined with the real fourth draft.The film also spawned the Star Wars Holiday Special, which debuted on CBS on November 17, 1978, and is often considered a failure; Lucas himself disowned it. Producer Gary Kurtz turned to the film poster artist Tom Chantrell, who was already well known for his prolific work for Hammer horror films, and commissioned a new version. Special Edition [ edit ] The 20th-anniversary theatrical release poster of the 1997 Special Edition featured art by Drew Struzan.