Star Wars is an epic science fantasy saga and fictional universe created by George Lucas during the late 1970s. Over the next thirty years, Lucas and other writers developed the Star Wars saga with additional films, books, and other works. The...
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Star Wars is an epic science fantasy saga and fictional universe created by George Lucas during the late 1970s. Over the next thirty years, Lucas and other writers developed the Star Wars saga with additional films, books, and other works. The first film was Star Wars, which was released on May 25, 1977, by 20th Century Fox. This film became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, spawning five more feature films developed by George Lucas and an Expanded Universe of his films, which includes three spin-off films, five television series and an extensive collection of licensed books, comics, video games, action figures, trading cards, and other merchandise, all set within the Star Wars fictional "galaxy far, far away." In 2005, Forbes Magazine estimated the overall revenue generated by the entire Star Wars franchise at nearly US $20 billion, making it one of the most successful franchises of all time.