There’s also Grand Moff Tarkin, the calculating and merciless Imperial leader played by Peter Cushing (who played most of the role in slippers!), and Darth Vader, a lightsaber-wielding monstrosity who will stop at nothing to retrieve the plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the Death Star. We meet Princess Leia, a diplomat-turned-soldier willing to die for the Rebel cause R2-D2 and C-3PO, the chorus of this grand adventure Han Solo, a smuggler who says he’s only in it for the money but actually has a heart of gold Chewbacca, Solo’s faithful companion and walking carpet Obi-Wan Kenobi, an old hermit living on a desert world who harbors a mysterious and epic past and, of course, Luke Skywalker, the farm boy who is destined to defeat the Empire and bring about the end of the Sith. Star Wars: 10 Unsung Heroes Behind A New Hope By Ryan LambieĪ New Hope is the story of a band of Rebels who must stand up against an evil and oppressive Empire. This is the space opera you’re looking for. Even after all these years, it remains a stunning storytelling and technical achievement. The only movie in the saga that was once officially only called Star Wars with no subtitle or episode title after it. At last, he is reborn as Darth Vader.Īvailable in the UK on: Amazon, Disney+ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

The result of this duel leaves Anakin horribly scarred and mutilated. This forces Obi-Wan’s hand, and he travels to Mustafar to confront his former apprentice once and for all. It also features Anakin turning against the Jedi, joining the Sith, killing a bunch of kids at the Jedi Temple, and all-around being a bad dude.

The movie covers much of the end of the Clone Wars, including a battle on the planet Utapau (a location George Lucas meant to use in A New Hope, but didn’t) and the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, where a young Han Solo would have made a cameo had Lucas not come to his senses.

Anakin, bent on saving Padme, whom he believes will die during childbirth, begins to take advice from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who you all know by now is actually Darth Sidious, the evil Sith Lord who has been manipulating the Republic and the Jedi all along. The story begins with all-out war above Coruscant and ends with one swift blow of a lightsaber on the volcanic hellscape of Mustafar.

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