STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (1977) MOVIE NEWS & REVIEW
star wars: A NEw hope (1977) movieGenre | Science Fiction
Classification | PG
Running time | 121 minutes
Released | 25 May 1977 castMark Hamill ... Luke Skywalker Harrison Ford ... Han Solo Carrie Fisher ... Princess Leia Anthony Daniels ... C-3PO David Prowse ... Darth Vader Peter Mayhew ... Chewbacca Kenny Baker ... R2-D2 Alec Guinness ... Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi Peter Cushing ... Grand Moff Tarkin Phil Brown ... Uncle Owen Shelagh Fraser ... Aunt Beru James Earl Jones ... Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited) Denis Lawson ... Rebel Force Wedge (as Dennis Lawson) directorGeorge Lucas writerGeorge Lucas ... (written by) cinematographerGilbert Taylor ... director of photography musicJohn Williams film editorT.M. Christopher ... (1997 special version) Paul Hirsch ... (film editor) George Lucas ... (uncredited) Marcia Lucas ... (film editor) Richard Chew ... (film editor) box office resultWorldwide $503,015,849
Australia $ not available
North America $307,263,857 movie minutiaePrior to the release, George Lucas showed an early rough cut to a group of his movie director friends. According to Lucas, this version still contained a lot of stock footage from old war movies in the place of special effects shots, and did not make a lot of sense. Most people in the room had a "what were you thinking?" response toward it; Brian De Palma reportedly called it the "worst movie ever". Nearly everyone, including Lucas, felt the movie would be a flop; the only dissenter was Steven Spielberg, who predicted that the film would be "the biggest movie of all time" and make millions of dollars. Lucas admitted that everybody in the room looked up at Steven and thought "Poor Steven".
The name Wookiee came about as a result of an accident. When San Francisco D.J. Terence McGovern was doing voice-over work on THX 1138 (1971) for George Lucas, he made a blunder and exclaimed, "I think I ran over a wookiee back there." George Lucas, confused, asked what he meant by the term. Terence McGovern admitted that he didn't know, and added that he simply made it up. George Lucas never forgot the cute word and used it in this movie.
After visiting the set of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977), George Lucas was sure CLOSE ENCOUNTERS would outperform the yet-to-be-released STAR WARS at the box office. Steven Spielberg disagreed, and felt Lucas' STAR WARS would be the bigger hit. Lucas proposed they trade two and a half percent of the profit on each other's movies. Spielberg took the trade, and still receives two and a half percent of the profits from this movie. related movies |
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