
Star Wars is an influential space saga and fictional universe created by producer and writer George Lucas in the late 1970s. The saga began with the film Star Wars, which was released on May 25, 1977. The film, later called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, became a pop culture phenomenon and spawned five more live action feature films and an extensive collection of licensed books, comics, video games, spin-off films, television series, toys, and other products — all of which are set within a fictional "galaxy far, far away."