Star wars empire strikes back sci fi futuristic movie film action 16. Imdbs advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Since its inception star wars has grown into one of the most well known franchises in pop culture history. In 1978 with george lucas a millionaire he began taking his screenplays for episodes v and vi and turning them into films. Episode v the empire strikes back.
Though many tropes did not originate with star wars it has popularized dozens of them to the point numerous modern space opera and sci fi works contain homages to the franchise. The creation of far away places and futuristic technology seems to be exactly what the medium of film was. Star wars is an american epic space opera media franchise created by george lucasthe franchise began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenonthe original film later subtitled episode iv a new hope was followed by the sequels episode v the empire strikes back 1980 and episode vi return of the jedi 1983 forming what is collectively. Lucas believed that the bleak tone of thx 1138 led to its poor reception and therefore chose to make star wars more optimistic.
Science fiction movies from the eighties 1980 1989 including tv movies as well as stand alone mini series. George lucas draws the star wars film series to a close with this dark sci fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. Star wars was also retitled star wars. Find exactly what youre looking for.
However he has also said he had the idea long before then. Or so weve been told by three of the best space movies ever. Episode iv a new hopehowever this time lucas left the directors guild and irvin kershner was the new director with lucas as the producer. In early 1978 lucas began working on star wars.
After a fierce battle. This list uses a fairly strict definition of science fiction and therefore does not include most films that deal with fantasy the supernatural or super heroes. This site also has made the franchise a trope namer for fifty odd tropes listed here. Its the final frontier the place where no one can hear you scream and a boundless backdrop that squashes any mans ego.