The one-time Stormtrooper with a conscience Finn can no longer participate in another massacre and joins the resistance gives the film a sense of heart. Meeting Rey as a scrapper stripping parts out of destroyed ships and selling them for food instantly makes her a character to connect with. When The Force Awakens is great - it's wonderful. And, more or less, that's exactly what we got with Episode VII: The Force Awakens. We wanted our favorite characters to return and despite 30 years be the same people we remembered as we last saw them during the great Ewok-hosted Stormtrooper BBQ on Endor. We wanted a universe that felt real - and not a computer-generated green screen background. We wanted characters we could connect with. After George Lucas' often directionless inorganic CGI-laden prequels, fans longed for what they loved about the original trilogy. It's easy to feel like The Force Awakens was a bit of a course correction for the franchise. But then we ended up getting a lot more Star Wars than we knew we wanted. That marketing buildup was incredible and made the wait for the film's release feel interminable. Not only that, but we were also promised the return of Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and of course - Luke Skywalker! I still remember the excitement of that first teaser trailer and replaying it over and over again. We had a new galactic supervillain with The First Order led by the crossguard lightsaber-wielding Kylo Ren. We had a trio of new characters with Poe Dameron, Finn, and a new Jedi apprentice Rey. After the bloated CGI of the Prequel Trilogy, The Force Awakens was the first film in decades that actually looked and felt like it belonged in the galaxy far far away. Abrams, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and the entire Disney mega marketing machine. Episode VII: The Force Awakens promised a new and exciting George-free adventure under the watchful eye of writer/director J.J. The Walt Disney Studios has owned the digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films-excluding A New Hope-since April 2015.After Lucas unleashed his "Special Editions" of the Original Trilogy, two mediocre films with one halfway decent entry to round out the often problematic Prequel Trilogy, the world was ready for a new Star Wars adventure something that felt like what fans originally experienced decades ago in theaters. 20th Century Fox still retains the physical distribution rights to the first two Star Wars trilogies, owning permanent rights for the original film Episode IV: A New Hope, while holding the rights to Episodes I–III, V and VI until May 2020. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion and announced that it would produce three new films, with the first film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, planned for release in 2015.
The three prequel films were also released at three-year intervals, with the final film of the trilogy released on May 19, 2005. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy’s final film, the first in a new prequel trilogy of films was released.
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The first film in the series was released under the title Star Wars on May 25, 1977, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon followed by two sequels, released at three-year intervals. The franchise’s storylines contain many themes, with strong influences from philosophy and religion. Their weapon of choice, the lightsaber, is commonly recognized in popular culture. The franchise depicts a galaxy described as “far, far away” in the distant past, and commonly portrays Jedi as a representation of good, in conflict with the Sith, their evil counterpart. These supplements to the franchise resulted in significant development of the series’ fictional universe, keeping the franchise active in the 16-year interim between the two film trilogies. The film series, consisting of two trilogies (and an upcoming third), has spawned an extensive media franchise called the Expanded Universe including books, television series, computer and video games, and comic books. Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas.