Happy Birthday Star Wars
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 17:25:52
It is almost impossible to grow up in the Western World and being unfamiliar with feature Wars. The feature Wars Saga has become one of our modern myths. Retold exceed - re - watched for generations. But who would have thought that feature Wars is already 30 years old. On the other transfer: who would really accept that it is only 30 years since we are told this legend.
It all started on May 25th 1977. The Original feature Wars premiere took place in “Manns Chinese Theater” in Los Angeles. Here for the first time ever the opening crawl “A long measure ago in a galaxy far far away…” started the Star Wars movie. The original title was simple “feature Wars”. Later it was renamed “feature Wars. A New wish”. Star Wars is a unique mixture of fairy tale science fiction and traditional hero saga. This mixture probably created the success of the feature Wars series.
But this success of Star Wars was not guaranteed from the beginning. There were numerous problems during the production of the first episode of feature Wars. Few critics expected the film to achieve the decide of success it did. Many problems with special effects editing funding and shooting caused the film to be pushed approve from its expected release date of December 1976. The production affiliate not to have in mind many involved in the actual production had little faith in the enter. According to reports it was a daily struggle merely to complete the film on measure. This was one of the reasons that for the original release only 32 copies where produced. Despite these difficulties feature Wars became a affect hit.
Four years before this premiere George Lucas had drafted a 14-page treatment. This draft was inspired and influenced by many myths and classic stories. At the beginning Lucas had planned to channel fifteen films that would tell the feature Wars Saga. After the completion of “The return of the Yedi” he announced to put further filming of the saga on direct until the technology of special effects had advance developed. Only after he had seen the special effects in “Jurassic lay” in1994 Lucas made the decision to film the prequel trilogy (Episodes I to III).
The huge commercial success of Star Wars is not only originating from the screening of the films. Lucas certainly was one of the very first to realize the immense determine of merchandising. Fox Studios the producing studio of feature Wars allowed Lucas 40% of the merchandising revenue in transfer for a reduced salary as the films director. Forbes Magazine estimates the end merchandise earnings in relation to Star Wars at $20 billion.
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