Star Wars Pyramid International "One Sheet A New Hope" Maxi Poster, Multi-Colour, 61 x 91.5 cm

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John Simon of New York magazine also panned the film and wrote, "Strip Star Wars of its often striking images and its highfalutin scientific jargon, and you get a story, characters, and dialogue of overwhelming banality. The film suffered production difficulties; the cast and crew involved believed the film would be a failure. He commissioned production designers John Barry and Roger Christian, who were working on the sets of the film Lucky Lady (1975) when Lucas first approached them, to work on the production sets. However, many bootleg copies exist, and the special has consequently become something of an underground legend.

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He added: "My main reason for making it was to give young people an honest, wholesome fantasy life, the kind my generation had. The Other Side of Midnight was supposed to be the studio's big summer hit, while Lucas's movie was considered the " B track" for theater owners nationwide. During production, he changed Luke's name from Starkiller to Skywalker [5] and altered the title to The Star Wars and later Star Wars. Jay West of the Los Angeles Times said that the boxes in the campaign "became the most coveted empty box[es] in the history of retail.In the United States, France, West Germany, Italy and Japan, parts of or the whole film were released on Super 8.

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He said, "The crawl is such a hard thing because you have to be careful that you're not using too many words that people don't understand.He secured a two-film development deal with United Artists; the two films were American Graffiti and a space opera, tentatively titled " The Star Wars" and inspired by Flash Gordon. A total of 30 sets consisting of planets, starships, caves, control rooms, cantinas, and the Death Star corridors were created; all of the nine soundstages at Elstree were used to accommodate them. In his 1997 review of the film's 20th anniversary release, Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune gave the film four out of four stars, saying, "A grandiose and violent epic with a simple and whimsical heart. When Lucas went out for lunch with Marcia, they encountered a long line of people along the sidewalks leading to Mann's Chinese Theatre, waiting to see Star Wars.