Star Wars (retroactively labelled Star Wars: Episode IV-- A New Hope) is a 1977 American impressive space-opera movie written and guided by George Lucas, generated by Lucasfilm as well as distributed by 20th Century Fox. It stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker as well as Peter Mayhew. It is the initial installation of the original Star Wars trilogy, the initial of the franchise business to be generated, and the 4th episode of the Skywalker legend . Lucas had the suggestion for a science-fiction movie in the blood vessel of Flash Gordon around the moment he finished his first movie, THX 1138 (1971) and also started dealing with a treatment after the launch of American Graffiti (1973 ). Star Wars takes place a very long time ago , in a fictional universe lived in by both human beings as well as different unusual types; the majority of the known galaxy is ruled by the totalitarian Galact...