Star Wars (retroactively labelled Celebrity Wars: Episode IV-- A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space-opera film composed and also directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm as well as distributed by 20th Century Fox. It stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prose, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and also Peter Mayhew. It is the first movie in the Star Wars movie series as well as fourth sequential phase of the Skywalker Saga. Lucas had the suggestion for a science-fiction movie in the blood vessel of Flash Gordon around the time he finished his first film, THX 1138 (1971) and also began dealing with a treatment after the release of American Graffiti (1973). Star Wars occurs a lengthy time ago, in an imaginary universe inhabited by both human beings and also different alien varieties; a lot of the known galaxy is ruled by the oppressive Galactic Empire, which is only opposed by the Rebel Partnership, a group of flex...