Help me Obi Wan Kenobi you are my only hope hits different after the Disney+ series.
1977s Star Wars A New Hope is without question one of the most important films of its era a movie that paved the way for the massive blockbusters and cinematic universes we enjoy in theaters today. Its a masterclass in world building visual effects editing character work and also helped shape Hollywoods modern understanding of franchising. Without Lucas classic space opera its possible there would be no MCU as we know it.
So its only natural that Disney has repeatedly gone back to the source material while sculpting its own rebooted Star Wars timeline whether its by basically remaking the film with 2015s The Force Awakens or fleshing out bits of its lore in 2016s Rogue One. Marvel Comics rebooted run of Star Wars books also began right after the events of A New Hope showing us what our heroes got up to next after destroying the Death Star and animated series Rebels covered the formation of the Rebel Alliance who launched that attack.Thats been one of many ongoing debates among the fandom since Disney popularized the concept of legacy sequels that act as both spiritual remakes and successors to beloved classics revisiting well-known lore for nostalgias sake or at times to overexplain it. But in a way Lucas did this first too with the Prequel Trilogy and additions like midi-chlorians being responsible for the Force.
Of course not all attempts to go back to the A New Hope well have been creatively unsuccessful. While in 2014 it would have been easy to assume Rogue One was the obvious cash grab over The Force Awakens time has ultimately been much kinder to the former than the latter. Indeed the A New Hope prequel that tells the story of the Rebels who stole the Death Star plans Lucas famous MacGuffin from 1977 ends up being a better and surprisingly more original film that also adds interesting new context for its predecessor.
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