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Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope

Full Movie Title: Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope
Actors and Characters: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO (See Threepio), R2-D2, Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, Owen Lars, Beru Lars, Greedo, R5-D4, Wedge Antilles, Biggs Darklighter, Porkins, General Dodonna, General Taggi, General Motti, Jabba the Hutt and Boba Fett

Box Office Gross: $ 461 million U.S. dollars (North America) + $ 339 million U.S. dollars (Overseas Internationally) = $ 798 million U.S. dollars (Worldwide Total)
Inflation Adjusted Theater Earnings: $ 1.2 billion U.S. dollars (North America) + $ 900 million U.S. dollars (Overseas Internationally) = $ 2.1 billion U.S. dollars (Worldwide Total)

Plot Script Spoilers: The film opens with Princess Leia's Tantive 4 blockade runner under attack by an Imperial star destroyer while above the skies of the remote planet called Tatooine. Princess Leia hides the secret plans for the death star in R2-D2 with a holographic message for Obi-Wan Kenobi. R2-D2 and C-3PO escape from the Tantive 4 inside an escape pod. The two droids safely land on the surface of Tatooine. Princess Leia is captured by Darth Vader. A group of storm troopers is sent to Tatooine to find the plans for the death star.

R2-D2 and C-3PO get in an argument and decide to go in different directions on Tatooine. Both droids end up being captured by the Jawas separately. The sand crawler, owned by the Jawas, arrives at the homestead of Owen and Beru Lars, the uncle and aunt of Luke Skywalker. Owen eventually purchases the two droids. Luke Skywalker sees the holographic message of Princess Leia projected from R2-D2 by accident while working on R2-D2. Eventually R2-D2 escapes. Luke and C-3PO chase after R2-D2 in a land speeder. Luke and C-3PO are attacked by Tusken Raiders, but are rescued by Obi-Wan Kenobi.

At Obi-Wan's home, Obi-Wan reveals secrets of the past to Luke. After hearing enough, Luke decides to return home and not get involved with fighting the Empire. Luke returns to the Lars homestead to find Owen and Beru Lars deceased at the hands of the storm troopers. Luke returns to Obi-Wan and agrees to become a Jedi Knight and seek revenge against the Empire. Luke, Obi-Wan and the droids arrive in Mos Eisley to find star ship transport to Alderaan. In the cantina, the heroes meet Han Solo and Chewbacca, who agree to take the heroes to Alderaan at a steep price in the Millennium Falcon.

The heroes hyper space to the Alderaan star system, but discover that Alderaan is gone. The Empire detects the presence of the Millennium Falcon and the star ship is pulled inside the death star with a tractor beam. The heroes hide in hidden cargo compartments in the Millennium Falcon to avoid being found by the Empire. The heroes eventually learn through espionage that Princess Leia is on the death star and scheduled for termination. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca proceed to the detention center to rescue Princess Leia. Obi-Wan deactivates the tractor beam and is fated to meet Darth Vader again for the first time in nearly two decades.

The heroes find Princess Leia and after much excitement make it back to the Millennium Falcon. Luke watches as Obi-Wan is apparently killed by Darth Vader in a light saber duel. In actuality, Obi-Wan has eluded the Sith by becoming one with the Force. The heroes escape safely from the death star and hyper space to the secret Rebel base at Yavin 4. The heroes don't realize the Empire has placed a tracking device on board the Millennium Falcon and the heroes unwittingly lead the Empire to the Rebel base.

The death star arrives in the Yavin 4 star system with the intent of destroying the Rebel base. The Rebel Alliance detects a weakness in the death star engineering schematics and launch X-Wing fighters to destroy the death star before the death star arrives in range of the Rebel base to fire the death star's super weapon. Han Solo and Chewbacca avoid the battle in order to enjoy the reward money for saving Princess Leia. The Rebel X-Wings are one by one destroyed by Imperial tie fighters as the X-Wings attempt to destroy the death star. Finally, Luke Skywalker makes a run at destroying the death star in his X-Wing.

However, it appears Darth Vader in his tie fighter will kill Luke. At the last possible second, Han Solo and Chewbacca appear out of nowhere in the Millennium Falcon and thwart Darth Vader before he can kill Luke. Vader's tie fighter is sent wildly into deep space. Vader retreats to fight another day. Obi-Wan guides Luke in successfully destroying the death star. The heroes arrive back at Yavin 4 and are rewarded for their valor with medals.

Release Date: May 25, 1977 in theaters
Film Director: George Lucas
Story Idea: George Lucas
Screenplay Writer: George Lucas

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Star Wars Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back

Full Movie Title: Star Wars Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back
Actors and Characters: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, C-3PO (See Threepio), R2-D2, Darth Vader, Emperor Dantius Palpatine (Darth Sidious), Boba Fett, Lobot, General Veers, Admiral Piett, Captain Needa, Admiral Ozzel, Major Derlin, Wedge Antilles, General Rieekan, Bossk, Dengar, Zuckuss, 4-LOM and Boba Fett

Box Office Gross: $ 290 million U.S. dollars (North America) + $ 244 million U.S. dollars (Overseas Internationally) = $ 534 million U.S. dollars (Worldwide Total)
Inflation Adjusted Theater Earnings: $ 670 million U.S. dollars (North America) + $ 564 million U.S. dollars (Overseas Internationally) = $ 1.34 billion U.S. dollars (Worldwide Total)

Plot Script Spoilers: The movie opens with the Empire deploying space probes in order to find the hidden base of the Rebel Alliance. It turns out the Rebels are hiding on an ice world called Hoth. Luke Skywalker is on patrol in the barren wastes of Hoth on a Taun Taun when Luke is suddenly attacked by a Wampa snow monster. The Wampa drags Luke to its lair. After Luke doesn't return to the Rebel base, Han Solo departs on a Taun Taun to find Luke. After waking up, Luke finds himself in the Wampa's cave.

Luke utilizes the Force to bring his light saber to himself and Luke cuts off the arm of the Wampa. Luke then escapes and proceeds into the frigid landscape of Hoth. Luke sees a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who instructs Luke to find Yoda, who is a great Jedi Master hiding on a planet called Dagobah. After seeing this message, Luke becomes unconscious, but Han Solo finds Luke and the two heroes are eventually rescued by a snow speeder which finds their location.

Meanwhile, Darth Vader senses that a probe droid has found the Rebels and Vader orders the Imperial fleet to hyper space to the Hoth star system. The star destroyers enter the Hoth star system and are detected by the Rebels. The Empire then sends Imperial Walkers to the surface of Hoth to capture the Rebel base. A spectacular battle erupts between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The heroes abandon Hoth. Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO escape Hoth in the Millennium Falcon while Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 escape in an X-Wing star fighter.

The Millennium Falcon is relentlessly pursued by the Empire. Han takes the Millennium Falcon into an asteroid field to avoid detection by the Empire. After a mesmerizing chase sequence, the Millennium Falcon ends up hiding on the exterior hull of a star destroyer. When the star destroyer releases its garbage, the Millennium Falcon drifts away with the garbage. Boba Fett realizes their trick and follows the Millennium Falcon. Han decides to hide out in the Bespin star system, but the Millennium Falcon's hyper drive is damaged so they have to proceed slowly to Cloud City.

Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker arrives on Dagobah and meets Jedi Master Yoda. Luke begins to learn the ways of the Force from Yoda. The heroes arrive at Cloud City and are greeted by Lando Calrissian. However, the Empire arrived at Cloud City before the Millennium Falcon thanks to Boba Fett tracking their movements. The heroes are taken prisoner by the Empire. Darth Vader brutally tortures Han Solo in order to lure Luke Skywalker into a trap at Cloud City. Luke senses his friends are in trouble and Luke leaves Dagobah to save his friends.

Vader realizes that capturing Luke Skywalker will be impossible while Luke is conscious. As a result, Vader decides Luke will be frozen in carbonite. To make sure the freezing process will not kill Luke, Vader tests the process by having Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Han is frozen and remains alive. Vader then gives Han to Boba Fett so that Boba Fett can take Han to Jabba the Hutt to receive the hefty bounty award that Jabba placed on Han. Lando conspires with Lobot to free himself and Princess Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO from the Empire. Eventually Luke arrives on Cloud City and ends up engaging Vader in a thrilling light saber duel.

Vader has beaten Luke in the duel, but Vader can't bring himself to kill Luke. Instead Vader reveals the secret to Luke that Darth Vader is Luke's real biological father. Luke refuses to accept the true nature of reality and chooses to plummet to his death instead of joining the dark side. Lando, Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO are heading away from Cloud City when Leia senses through the Force that Luke is in danger. It turns out Luke managed to survive his fall. He is rescued by the Millennium Falcon. The film ends with the heroes gathered together at the location of the Rebel star fleet. Lando and Chewbacca depart in the Millennium Falcon in order to rescue Han. Luke and Leia watch as the Millennium Falcon speeds away from the Rebel Alliance fleet.

Release Date: May 21, 1980 in cineplexes
Film Director: Irvin Kershner
Story Idea: George Lucas
Script Writer: Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett

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Star Wars Episode 6 Return of the Jedi

Full Movie Title: Star Wars Episode 6 Return of the Jedi
Actors and Characters: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Force spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Chewbacca, C-3PO (See Threepio), R2-D2, Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker), Emperor Dantius Palpatine (Darth Sidious), Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett, Moff Jerjerrod, Admiral Piett, Admiral Ackbar, Wedge Antilles, Bib Fortuna, General Madine, Mon Mothma, Wicket the Ewok, Oola, Sy Snootles, Teebo, Logray, Chief Chirpa, Barada, Nien Nunb, Salacious Crumb, and Malakili

Box Office Gross: $ 309 million U.S. dollars (North America) + $ 263 million U.S. dollars (Overseas Internationally) = $ 572 million U.S. dollars (Worldwide Total)
Inflation Adjusted Theater Earnings: $ 650 million U.S. dollars (North America) + $ 550 million U.S. dollars (Overseas Internationally) = $ 1.2 billion U.S. dollars (Worldwide Total)

Plot Script Spoilers: The final episode of the classic trilogy opens on Tatooine with C-3PO and R2-D2 arriving at Jabba the Hutt's palace to give Jabba a message from Luke Skywalker. It turns out Lando Calrissian has already infiltrated Jabba's palace. Princess Leia arrives in the disguise of a bounty hunter with Chewbacca as her prisoner. Jabba agrees to pay her a bounty reward for Chewbacca after Leia threatens to explode a nuclear unit called a thermal detonator. Luke arrives at Jabba's palace and tries to convince Jabba to release Luke's friends. Jabba refuses Luke's offer and Jabba uses a trap door to send Luke into a cavernous area with a Rancor.

Luke manages to kill the Rancor. Jabba is angered and he decides to execute the heroes by having them thrown into the Sarlaac Pit where they will be digested alive for many, many centuries. Jabba's sail barge arrives at the Sarlaac Pit and Jabba orders his minions to throw Luke in the Sarlaac. Luke warns Jabba for the last time. Luke avoids falling into the Sarlaac by tricking Jabba. R2-D2 gives Luke his light saber and Luke proceeds to kill all the bad guys. In the process, Boba Fett falls into the Sarlaac. Princess Leia manages to strangle Jabba to death. The heroes escape safely while Jabba's sail barge explodes killing everyone connected with Jabba.

Han, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO take the Millennium Falcon to rendezvous with the Rebel Alliance star fleet. Luke and R2-D2 take an X-Wing to Dagobah. Luke watches Yoda die on Dagobah. Luke leaves Dagobah to prepare for the final battle against the Sith Lords. The heroes are gathered in a meeting room where Mon Mothma reveals that Bothan spies have learned of a new death star being built by the Empire. The Rebels plan to destroy the death star before it becomes operational.

The problem is that the second death star is being protected by a force field generated on the forest moon of Endor. The heroes volunteer to lead a group of Rebel special forces commandos to destroy the shield generator. Lando remains with the fleet to lead the attack against the death star while Han, Leia, Luke, Chewbacca and the droids take a captured Imperial shuttle in order to reach the forest moon of Endor.

The heroes arrive on the forest moon and end up being chased by scout troopers on speeder bikes. Eventually the heroes are captured by the ingeniously amazing Ewoks (the absolute highlight of the entire classic trilogy). The Ewoks decide to have a feast with the heroes being the food. However, Luke utilizes the Force to give C-3PO godlike powers in order to frighten the Ewoks into not killing the heroes. C-3PO ends up telling the entire story the heroes have been through since the events of A New Hope.

The Ewoks agree to help the heroes destroy the shield generator. Meanwhile, Lando and the Rebel star fleet arrive in the Endor star system in order to attack the death star. It turns out to be a trick as the death star is fully operational. A massive space battle erupts between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire. The Rebel leaders want to retreat since they can't reach the death star with the shield generator still working. Lando convinces the Rebel leaders to give his friends more time to take out the shield generator.

Luke surrenders to the Empire and Darth Vader takes Luke to meet Emperor Palpatine. Luke refuses to join the Sith and next a mesmerizing light saber duel erupts between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. On the forest moon, the heroes with the Ewoks engage in a ferocious battle with the most elite troops in the entire Imperial military. After a great struggle, the heroes manage to blow up the shield generator with explosives. The Rebel star fleet detects that the shield generator has been destroyed and then immediately proceed to attack the death star.

Luke refuses to kill Darth Vader and subsequently hides from Vader during their duel. Vader reads Luke's mind to discover that Luke has a twin sister. Vader threatens Luke that if Luke will not turn to the dark side then perhaps Leia will. This enrages Luke and leads to Luke attacking Vader and overwhelming Vader with the most powerful light saber attack in the history of the galaxy. Luke ends up cutting off Vader's hand with Luke's light saber and Vader is completely at the mercy of Luke.

Emperor Palpatine encourages Luke to kill Vader so that Luke can replace Vader as the Sith Lord apprentice. Luke refuses to kill Vader and then surprisingly refuses to fight further with his light saber. Trusting in the will of the Force, Luke throws away his light saber and won't turn to the dark side. Palpatine is enraged and begins to fire Force lightning at Luke. Palpatine slowly tortures Luke with the awesome powers of the dark side. Luke begs for Vader to save him. Vader watches as Palpatine is killing Vader's son. At the last moment, Vader betrays Palpatine by picking up Palpatine and throwing Palpatine into the depths of the death star reactor core.

Meanwhile, Lando reaches the heart of the death star and is prepared to destroy the death star. Vader dies in Luke's arms and Luke manages to flee the death star with Vader. Lando uses the weapons of the Millennium Falcon to destroy the death star. Luke gives Anakin a proper Jedi burial. The film ends with the heroes gathered together while celebrating with the Ewoks on the forest moon of Endor. Luke Skywalker watches the Force ghosts of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda savor the permanent destruction of the Sith Lords.

Release Date: May 25, 1983 in cinemas
Film Director: Richard Marquand
Story Idea: George Lucas
Screen Play Writer: Lawrence Kasdan (source:classictrilogy.com)