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Star Wars is an epic science fantasy and fictional universe created by writer/producer/director 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 (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), 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 (over the course of its history) at nearly US $20 billion, making it one of the most successful franchises of all time.[1]