Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Director(s)	George Lucas
Producer(s)	Gary Kurtz Rick McCallum (Special Edition)
Writer(s)	George Lucas
Starring	Mark Hamill Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher Peter Cushing Alec Guinness
Distributor	20th Century Fox
Released	May 25, 1977
Runtime	121 min. (original) 125 min. (Special Edition)
Budget	$11,000,000
Canon	G
Language	English
Preceded by	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Followed by	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is sometimes called simply A New Hope or it's release name The Star Wars.

Opening Story

Episode IV A NEW HOPE It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy....

Story

19 years after the events of Revenge Of The Sith The Emperor has finished construction on the DEATH STAR. Darth Vader intercepts Princess Leia's ship and brings her for questioning concering stolen plans to the DEATH STAR. Leia inputs the plans into the droid R2-D2 before her capture, while R2 along with the droid C-3PO take an escape pod down to the planet Tatooine. On Tatooine the are bought by Luke Skywalker's Uncle: Owen Lars. R2 leaves during the night in search of Ben Kenobi,an old Jedi Master. Luke and C-3PO go after R2 and meet Ben Kenobi. Ben gives Luke his Father'sLightsaber and after sseing Leia's Distress message from R2, asks Luke to take him to Mos Eisley. Luke goes home after seeing burnt Jawas and discoveres his home, aunt, and uncle have been burned by Stormtroopers, Thus since he has no home he decides to go with Ben and be trained as a Jedi. They arrive at Mos Eisley Cantina and meet the cocky Han Solo who agrees to take them to Alderaan. In Alderaan's place, they find what seems to be an asteroid field. The planet was destroyed by the dreaded Death Star, on the orders of Grand Moff Tarkin, to set an example of the power of the Empire. The Millennium Falcon is pulled aboard the Death Star by its powerful tractor beam. From hidden smuggling compartments, the crew of the Millennium Falcon ambushes an Imperial scanning crew and two stormtroopers. With Han and Luke now disguised as the two stormtroopers, the group begins to figure out how to escape. Obi-Wan separates from the group to disable the tractor beam, leaving the others alone. While connected to the Imperial Network, R2-D2 discovers Princess Leia is aboard the station. Luke convinces Han and Chewbacca to rescue her with the vague promise of a grand reward. Han and Chewbacca reluctantly agree. Luke plans to march into Detention Block AA 23, claiming that Chewbacca is part of a prisoner transfer. C-3PO and R2-D2 are instructed to remain behind, and the trio sets off on their rescue attempt. Luke's plan works flawlessly in that they are quick to subdue the officers and guards in the Princess's cellblock. Unfortunately, no one thought to plan for their escape, and Leia takes charge, blasting a hole in a nearby grate and jumping through while Han and Luke hold off a squad of stormtroopers. Chewbacca, Luke and Han all dive after the princess into the unknown.

Unfortunately, the grate covers a chute that leads to a garbage compactor that is also home to a resident dianoga. Soon after landing, the creature pulls Luke under the surface, but releases him and is scared away when the Imperials realize where our heroes escaped to and activate the compactor. As the walls close in on the foursome, Luke desperately calls to C-3PO over his comlink asking for the compactor to be shut down. R2-D2 manages to shut down the compactor just in time, although, amidst the muffled cries of joy over the comlink, C-3PO is briefly convinced that his master and friends have been crushed. After escaping from the trash compactor, the group hurries back to the Millennium Falcon, hoping that Obi-Wan has successfully shut down the tractor beam. They encounter stormtroopers on their way to the ship.Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was destined to meet with Darth Vader. Obi-Wan battles his former Padawan, but this time Obi-Wan sacrifices himself (actually, it was later revealed that Obi-Wan did not let Vader kill him, rather joined the Force before being killed to avoid death) as Luke watches in terror, then screams. Horrified and angered, Luke takes his final blasts at the stormtroopers and dashes onto the Millennium Falcon.

After fighting a squadron of TIE Fighters, the Millennium Falcon meets the Rebel Alliance on Yavin 4, and the information in R2-D2 is turned over. General Dodonna plans the attack on the Death Star, an attack so audacious as to receive an unenthusiastic reaction from the pilots, notably Wedge Antilles. To add to Luke's dismay, Han leaves after receiving his reward.

The Rebel strike force begins its attack on the Death Star, as the space station approaches the Rebel base on Yavin 4. The final Rebel ships enter the trench to hit the target that will destroy the Death Star. One of them is piloted by Biggs Darklighter, a friend of Luke who is killed by Vader towards the end of the assault. Most of the Rebel ships are destroyed, save for Luke's X-wing starfighter. Just before Darth Vader could destroy Luke from his personal TIE Advanced Fighter, Han returns in the Millennium Falcon and clears away the attacking Imperial fighters. Luke fires the proton torpedo into the exhaust port target, and the Death Star is destroyed.

In the end there is a victory celebration which includes the awarding of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo and after Chewbacca growls the scene switches to the end credits.