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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983
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Alec Guinness
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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and he is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucass original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Tony Award, in 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980, Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mothers maiden name was Agnes Cuff and she was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinnesss birth certificate, the space for the name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the name says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank, the identity of Guinnesss father has never been officially confirmed. From 1875, under English law, when the birth of a child was registered. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle. Guinnesss mother later had a marriage to a British soldier who had survived the Irish War of Independence. His behaviour was erratic or even violent. Guinness first worked writing advertising copy and he appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielguds successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, in 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardreys Thunder Rock. An early influence from afar was Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired, Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud and he starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1939, he adapted Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket, one of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Leans 1946 film adaptation of the play. Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941 and he commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Lucas wrote and directed THX1138, based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth, THX1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film, American Graffiti, inspired by his teen years in early 1960s Modesto, California, the film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Following the first Star Wars film, Lucas produced and co-wrote the following installments in the trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, along with Steven Spielberg, Lucas co-created and wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. Lucas also produced and/or wrote a variety of films through Lucasfilm in the 1980s and 1990s, Lucas also returned to directing with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, consisting of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. He later collaborated on the story for the Indiana Jones sequel Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, five of Lucass seven features are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is one of the American film industrys most financially successful filmmakers, Lucas is considered a significant figure in the New Hollywood era. Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas and he is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. Growing up, Lucas had a passion for cars and motor racing, on June 12,1962, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina, another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology and he also began shooting with an 8 mm camera, including filming car races. At this time, Lucas and his friend John Plummer became interested in Canyon Cinema, screenings of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Lucas and Plummer also saw classic European films of the time, including Jean-Luc Godards Breathless, François Truffauts Jules et Jim, thats when George really started exploring, Plummer said. Through his interest in racing, Lucas met renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, another race enthusiast. Wexler, later to work with Lucas on several occasions, was impressed by Lucas talent, George had a very good eye, and he thought visually, he recalled. Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood, and John Milius and he also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg
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Ewan McGregor
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Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna in Angels and Demons, Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and Lumière in an adaptation of Beauty. He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. McGregor has also starred in productions of Guys and Dolls. He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazines The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list in 1997, in a 2004 poll for the BBC, McGregor was named the fourth most influential person in British culture. He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004, in 2016, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award. McGregor was born in Perth, Scotland and brought up in Crieff and his mother, Carol Diane, is a retired teacher of Crieff High School and latterly deputy head teacher of Kingspark School in Dundee. His father, James Charles Stewart Jim McGregor, is a physical education teacher and careers master of Morrisons Academy. He has a brother, Colin, who is a former Tornado GR4 pilot in the Royal Air Force. He is the nephew of actor Denis Lawson and actress Sheila Gish, McGregor attended the independent Morrisons Academy in Crieff. In 1993, six months prior to his graduation from Guildhall, the same year, he starred in the BBC adaptation of Scarlet and Black with a young Rachel Weisz, and made his film debut in Bill Forsyths Being Human. In 1994, McGregor performed in the thriller Shallow Grave, for which he won an Empire Award, and his international breakthrough followed in 1996 with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Boyles Trainspotting, an adaptation of Irvine Welshs novel of the same name. McGregor played the romantic lead role in the 1998 British film Little Voice. While the prequels received criticism from Star Wars fans, McGregors performance was widely acclaimed and his uncle, Denis Lawson, had played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy. In 2001, he starred in Moulin Rouge, as the young poet Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill courtesan Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. McGregor reprised his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the subsequent prequel Star Wars, in 2003, he starred alongside Renée Zellweger in Down With Love. He also portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in the acclaimed film Big Fish alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman
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Voice acting
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Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Star Wars, The Force Awakens is a 2015 American epic space opera film directed, co-produced, and co-written by J. J. Abrams. The Force Awakens was announced after The Walt Disney Companys acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012 and it was produced by Abrams, his longtime collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of the trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. John Williams, composer for the six films, returned to compose the films score. Lucas served as consultant during the films early production. Filming began in April 2014 in Abu Dhabi and Iceland, with photography also taking place in Ireland and Pinewood Studios in England. It is the first live-action film in the franchise since Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars, The Force Awakens was widely anticipated, and Disney backed the film with extensive marketing campaigns. It premiered in Los Angeles on December 14,2015, four days before its release worldwide. It received five Academy Award nominations and four British Academy Film Award nominations, two sequels, Star Wars, The Last Jedi and Episode IX, are scheduled for release in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Three decades after the destruction of the second Death Star, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire, the Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by General Leia Organa, opposes them while searching for her brother, Luke Skywalker, to enlist his aid. Resistance pilot Poe Dameron meets village elder Lor San Tekka on the planet Jakku to obtain a map to Lukes location, stormtroopers commanded by Kylo Ren destroy the village and capture Poe, while Ren kills Tekka. Poes droid, BB-8, escapes with the map and encounters a scavenger named Rey near a junkyard settlement, Ren tortures Poe using the Force, and learns of BB-8. Stormtrooper FN-2187, unwilling to kill, frees Poe, and they escape in a stolen TIE fighter and they crash on Jakku, and Finn survives, but Poe is believed to have been killed in the crash. Finn encounters Rey and BB-8, but the First Order tracks them, Finn, Rey, and BB-8 flee the planet in the Millennium Falcon, which they steal from a junkyard. The Falcon is captured by a ship piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca. Two rival gangs, seeking to settle debts with Han, board and attack, the gangs inform the First Order. At the First Orders Starkiller Base – a planet converted into a superweapon that harnesses energy from stars – Supreme Leader Snoke orders General Hux to use the weapon for the first time. Snoke questions Rens ability to deal with emotions relating to his father, Han Solo, the Falcon crew views BB-8s map and determines it is incomplete
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James Arnold Taylor
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James Arnold Taylor is an American voice actor and author. Taylor was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and he has been voice acting since 1995, appearing in the Japanese game Emit. He has been a member of the voice acting community since, appearing in numerous roles, including Ratchet in the Ratchet & Clank video game series. He also voiced Fred Flintstone in commercials from 2005 up to 2011, Taylor is a long-time comic book and Star Wars fan. He is married to Allison Taylor, together they have one daughter named Lydia. In 2013, he published the book JAT365,365 Inspirations for the Pursuit of Your Dreams
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Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series)
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Star Wars, Clone Wars is an American science fiction animated microseries created, directed, produced and co-written by Genndy Tartakovsky, set in the Star Wars universe. The series aired on Cartoon Network for three seasons consisting of 25 episodes from 2003 to 2005, and was the first Star Wars television series since Star Wars, both volumes were later released on home video edited as feature-length films. Since release, the series has received acclaim and won multiple awards. Star Wars, Clone Wars is part of the Star Wars prequel storyline, surrounding the fall of esteemed Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, the series begins in the year 22 BBY, a few months following Attack of the Clones. As the war rages, more and more planets slip from Republic control and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, is personally appointed to lead the space forces by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the secret alter ego of Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Also on Muunilinst, ARC Captain Fordo leads more clone troopers on an assault, meanwhile, Separatist leader Count Dooku takes in the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress as his apprentice and sends her to eliminate Anakin. The Volume Two storyline picks up two years after Anakins victory over Ventress and Obi-Wans victory on Muunilinst, with Grievous emerging to claim victories for the Separatists, the Republic is in need of more Jedi Knights. After much consideration, the Jedi Council decides to promote Anakin to a Knight, meanwhile, General Grievous leads an assault on Coruscant and, despite the best efforts of Yoda, Windu, Shaak Ti and others, kidnaps Palpatine for his Master, Dooku. While rescuing the Nelvaan warriors, Anakin sees a vision of his eventual transformation into Darth Vader. He then sets out with Obi-Wan to rescue the Chancellor over Coruscant and this leads directly into the beginning of Revenge of the Sith. The series was produced by Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexters Laboratory and Samurai Jack, george Lucas, who inspired the Clone Wars television series and served as an executive producer on the series, gave Tartakovsky all the major events during the Clone Wars. The pilot series, produced primarily with traditional animation, originally ran on Cartoon Network, in addition to being shown on television, the episodes were released online simultaneously at the Star Wars and Cartoon Network websites. The series was advertised by Cartoon Network, and was originally shown immediately before their popular Friday night programming block Fridays. Season 1 consisted of 10 episodes, lasting 3 minutes each and these episodes were released on DVD together with those from the second season as Volume One. Season 2 consisted of 10 episodes, lasting 3 minutes each and these episodes were released on DVD together with those from the first season as Volume One. Season 3 consisted of 5 episodes, lasting 12 minutes each and these episodes were released on DVD as Volume Two. In 2009, Clone Wars was ranked 21 on IGNs Top 100 Animated Series list, chapters 1–20 of the series were released March 22,2005, as Star Wars Clone Wars, Volume I. The episodes were edited together into one continuous feature, the disc also featured a glimpse of Volume II, an Episode III game trailer, and a playable level of the Xbox game Star Wars, Republic Commando
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
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The film is set during the three-year time period between the films Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The Clone Wars served as an introduction to the series of the same name. The film received reviews from critics, and grossed $68.3 million worldwide against an $8.5 million budget. During the Clone Wars, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi lead a small Republic clone army against the Separatist droid army on the planet Christophsis. Awaiting reinforcements, the two Jedi greet a shuttle carrying the young Jedi Ahsoka Tano, who insists that she has been assigned by Jedi Master Yoda to serve as Anakins Padawan. Anakin begrudgingly accepts Ahsokas apprenticeship, and the two succeed in deactivating the Separatists energy field while Obi-Wan stalls the droid army commander, allowing a Republic victory, following the battle, Yoda arrives and informs the Jedi that crime lord Jabba the Hutts son Rotta has been kidnapped. Anakin and Ahsoka are tasked with retrieving the Huttlet, while Obi-Wan is sent to Tatooine to negotiate with Jabba over a treaty between the Hutts and the Republic. The Jedi manage to escape the trap along with R2-D2 and hijack a transport with which they travel to Tatooine. Obi-Wan, alerted by Anakin, arrives on Teth and defeats Ventress in a lightsaber duel, meanwhile, Senator Padmé Amidala, Anakins secret wife, learns of Anakins mission and fears for his safety. She decides to contact Jabbas uncle Ziro in Coruscant, the Hutt refuses to cooperate, apparently believing that it is the Jedi who are responsible for the situation. Padmé is discovered and detained, but a call by C-3PO enables her to summon a squadron of clone troopers. Upon their arrival on Tatooine, Anakin and Ahsoka are shot down by MagnaGuards, Anakin devises a ruse to confront Dooku while carrying a decoy Rotta, leaving Ahsoka to take the real Rotta to Jabbas palace. While Anakin fights off Dooku, Ahsoka is ambushed by the MagnaGuards, the two deliver Rotta safely to Jabba, who nonetheless orders the Jedis execution for their supposed attempt to kidnap him. However, Padmé contacts Jabba in time and reveals Ziro and the Separatists responsibility for the kidnapping, acknowledging the Jedis heroism and allowing the Republic to have Ziro punished for his betrayal, Jabba agrees to the Republic treaty while Anakin and Ahsoka are retrieved by Obi-Wan and Yoda. George Lucas had the idea for a film after viewing some of the footage of the early episodes on the big screen. Those first few episodes, originally planned for release on television, were woven together to form the theatrical release. The story of the kidnapped Hutt was inspired by the Sonny Chiba samurai film titled Shogun’s Shadow, Lucas described the film was almost an afterthought. Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing, said of the decision, Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation used Autodesk software to animate both the film and the series using the Maya 3D modeling program to create highly detailed worlds, characters and creatures
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)
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The series debuted on the US version of Cartoon Network on October 3,2008. Each episode has a time of 22 minutes to fill a half-hour time slot. In 2007, Star Wars creator George Lucas stated there will be at least 100 episodes produced, dave Filoni is the supervising director of the series. There is also a comic, depicting story-snippets between the single episodes. The first trailer for the series was released on the official Star Wars website on May 8,2007, the series was launched with an animated feature film, which was released in theaters on August 15,2008. Season 2 ended on April 30,2010, Season 3 premiered on September 17,2010, with the complete second season releasing on Blu-ray Disc and DVD October 26,2010. Season 4 premiered on September 16,2011 with the Complete Season 3 on Blu-ray Disc, the fourth season was released for Blu-ray Disc and DVD release on October 23,2012. Season 5 premiered on September 29,2012 with a new slot of 9,30 A. M. Season 5 and the series in the Collectors Edition Box set were both released in October 15,2013. On March 11,2013, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars, super RTL, a German TV network, began airing the episodes on February 15,2014. The sixth-season episodes were available in the U. S. for streaming on Netflix, along with the entirety of the series. A project known as The Clone Wars Legacy adapted unproduced story arcs into other formats beginning in August 2014. After viewing some of the footage of the early episodes on a big screen. Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, and Samuel L. Jackson reprised their roles as Count Dooku, C-3PO, Season 1 shows a wide variety of battles and adventures with Grievous and Dooku as the lead antagonists. Many of the episodes are stand-alone, but a common thread throughout the season is that the Republic, in Season 2, the Sith resort to hiring bounty hunters and mercenaries to steal objects and intel or to assassinate targets for them. Meanwhile, the Jedi lead the Republic forces in an assault on the battle droid manufacturing facility. The first half of both Season 3 and Season 4 are diplomatic in nature, Season 3, in particular, has many stories that take away from the battlefield. How different races and planets are affected by the war are shown
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Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005 video game)
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Star Wars, Battlefront II is a 2005 first- and third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars film franchise. Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts it is a sequel to 2004s Star Wars, Battlefront and the second game in the Battlefront series. The game was released in PAL regions on October 31,2005, on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox platforms and it was later updated to be backwards compatible for the Xbox 360. It was also released on the PlayStation Store on October 20,2009, the PSP version was developed by Savage Entertainment. The game features new vehicles, characters, game mechanics, maps, gameplay additions over Battlefront include the use of Jedi, additional game modes such as hero assault, and objective-based space battles. Battlefront II was well received, with the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions scoring in the mid 80s at aggregators GameRankings, the PC version scored slightly lower at both sites, scoring a 76. 60% at GameRankings and 78 at Metacritic. The PSP version was the worst received, scoring 70. 93% at GameRankings and 69 at Metacritic, reviewers generally praised the narrative-based story, however, some felt that the upgrades from the original were not enough to merit the price. Like the original game, it was a commercial success, GameSpy Technology scheduled a shut-down across all titles using the service for May 31,2014, which included Star Wars, Battlefront II for PC, PS2, and Xbox. Electronic Arts announced it would extend support for Battlefront II until June 30,2014, the extended support ended on July 25,2014, taking all GameSpy online video games across all platforms offline. The Windows version was added to a list of supported games on GameRanger on May 31,2014, Battlefront II is fundamentally similar to its predecessor, albeit with the addition of new gameplay mechanics. The general objective in most missions is to eliminate the enemy faction, players have the ability to choose between six classes during gameplay. Four class types are common to all factions, infantry, heavy weapon, in addition to the four standard classes, each faction has two unique classes which unlock by scoring a predetermined number of points. Battlefront II also features heroes - a special class that allows the player to control characters from the Star Wars universe. Heroes serve as a bonus to players, and are unlocked by meeting certain criteria, differences between Battlefront II and its predecessor include the ability to sprint and the ability to roll forwards. In addition to utilizing heroes in conquest matches, the game featured a hero assault mode in which heroes were pitted against villains in a team deathmatch format. There are a total of 18 missions, four of which are optional space missions, the PSP version of Battlefront II does not feature the Rise of the Empire campaign. Instead it features three single-player Challenge modes, Imperial Enforcer, Rogue Assassin, and Rebel Raider, in Imperial Enforcer the player is sent to eliminate indigenous species on several given planets, such as Gungans on Naboo and Ewoks on Endor. Rogue Assassin requires the player to eliminate all Imperial officers on a given sets of planets, bonus points are awarded for any other kills
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Star Wars Rebels
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Star Wars Rebels is an American 3D CGI animated television series produced by Lucasfilm Animation. Imperial forces are hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights while a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking form, the visual style of Star Wars Rebels is inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie. The series premiered as a 44-minute film, Star Wars Rebels, the first season consisted of 16 episodes and the series features new characters along with ones from the original trilogy. The second season of 22 episodes premiered on June 20,2015, the third season of 22 episodes premiered on September 24,2016, with the hour-long episode Steps Into Shadow. On March 3,2017, it was announced that the series is renewed for a season that is set to premiere in the third quarter. Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg and Greg Weisman served as producers of season one. Weisman left the show after season one, the series has been generally well-received and has often received in excess of one million viewers per episode. Taylor Gray as Ezra Bridger Freddie Prinze, Jr, in Australia, the series premiered on October 17 on Disney XD. The Siege of Lothal premiered on June 28,2015 and the season debuted on October 18. In Canada, the series premiered on October 19 on the DHX-owned Disney XD, however, due to DHX Media losing the rights to Disney content, the show was later moved to Disney Channel. The second season premiered on November 7 and it was moved to the Corus-owned Disney XD channel on December 1, in the Middle East and Africa, Spark of Rebellion premiered on October 11 and the series debuted on October 18 on Disney XD. Siege of Lothal premiered on October 10, followed the season premiere on October 17. In Southeast Asia, Spark of Rebellion premiered on Disney XD on October 4, Siege of Lothal premiered on October 3 on Disney XD and Disney Channel and the second season was released on October 24. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the series debuted on October 16 on Disney XD, Siege of Lothal premiered on July 18,2015 followed by the second season debut on October 17. Star Wars Rebels, Spark of Rebellion was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD in the US at all retailers on October 14,2014, DVD bonus features include character shorts, a 3D model kit of the Ghost ship, and a preview of season 1. The Complete Season One of Star Wars Rebels was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on September 1,2015 in America, the Season 1 collection contains the expanded version of Spark of Rebellion with the Darth Vader/Grand Inquisitor prologue shown on ABC-TV. The Complete Season Two of Star Wars Rebels was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD, in the United States, the one hour special garnered 2.74 million viewers on Disney Channel and 2.40 million viewers on ABC. Worldwide, it delivered a total of 6.5 million viewers, on Disney Channel, the first and second episodes delivered 2.33 million and 1.92 million viewers, respectively
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Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles
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Star Wars Episode I, Jedi Power Battles is an action adventure Star Wars video game set during the time frame of Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The game was first released for the PlayStation, afterwards for the Dreamcast, Jedi Power Battles is a mix of an platform game and a beat em up. Emphasis is place both on completing jumping sequences and defeating enemies, the players primary weapon is a lightsaber used to fight through waves of enemies and deflect blaster shots. The lightsaber combat is rather simplified with a system that lets the player lock on to the nearest enemy using the R1 button, items and the force can also be used for special attacks. On most levels jumping puzzles make up a portion of the challenge. There are a few segments in which the player can pilot various craft, the single player campaign can also be played in cooperative mode with a second player, while the Dreamcast version has an additional training mode and a two player duel mode. As players progress additional lightsaber combos and force powers are unlocked, characters have specific lightsaber styles, force powers, weaknesses and strengths. Queen Amidala of Naboo and Captain Panaka, head of the Queens security forces, are the two playable characters to utilize ranged weapons. Sith Apprentice Darth Maul and Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi are also unlockable, four levels can be unlocked which offer players unique minigames. The game loosely follows the plot of Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace and it begins as two jedi are sent to negotiate an agreement between the Trade Federation and the Naboo. When this goes awry the two fight their way through Battle droids on the Trade Federation ship. The pair eventually make it to the surface, where they fight through the swamps that eventually lead to the streets of Theed. In the ensuing battle the Jedi are forced to flee with Queen Amidala on her starship, the group arrives on Tatooine, where they hope to acquire parts to repair the Queens ship. The environment proves hostile, and the jedi are forced to defend themselves against their attackers while the parts are acquired, the group eventually make their way to Coruscant, where a group of criminals instigate an attack. The jedi fight their way through their foes to see the queen to the senate building, concerned for the welfare of her planet and finding no hope in the senate, the Queen and jedi return to Naboo to liberate the city of Theed from control of the Droid army. Now allied with the gungans of Naboo, the two fight their way through gungan ruins to the city. They arrive and liberate a pair of droid STAPs, utilizing the vehicles limber controls and fast firing weaponry, they fight to the royal palace. Upon arriving the jedi find they must scale the side of the palace, using their abilities to jump from platform to platform
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Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing
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Star Wars, Super Bombad Racing is a racing video game with characters from Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars, and Return of the Jedi. The playable characters are portrayed in a light in the super deformed style. This game is available for the PlayStation 2, as the Dreamcast, Windows. Super Bombad Racing received average to mixed responses when released in 2001, some praised the game, calling it an accomplished kart racer and a welcome addition to the then-short list of PlayStation 2 titles. Others, however, felt that while the game was mechanically sound, others roundly criticized the game, both for turning Star Wars into a childish kart racer and for simply making a bad game. GameSpot gave Super Bombad Racing a score of 6.2 out of 10, saying it. introduces a few clever concepts, but its length, Star Wars, Super Bombad Racing on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki Star Wars, Super Bombad Racing at MobyGames
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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Star Wars, Galactic Battlegrounds is a real-time strategy video game set in the Star Wars universe. It was developed by Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios and LucasArts, the Japanese version published by Electronic Arts and Squaresoft Joint Venture Electronic Arts Square. It was released in November 11,2001, an expansion pack, Clone Campaigns, was released in May 14,2002, adding two new factions and campaigns. Later that year, both Galactic Battlegrounds and Clone Campaigns were released in a box set, Star Wars, Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, the games were built on the Genie engine, the same one used in Age of Empires and Age of Empires II. The player starts the game with a Command Center, a scout, the player search and gather resources such as Food, Carbon, Nova Crystals, and Ore and then using the resources in order to create new buildings, units, workers and so on. Food is used for units and troopers, as well as the work force. Carbon is used in place of Wood in Age of Empires 2 for buildings, Nova Crystals create the more high-end units and can be gathered through getting special holocrons. Ore is used for structures as well as the Gungan unique unit Fambaa. The player can build separate units at separate buildings designed specifically for different types of units, the player can advance through the four Tech Levels by paying a certain amount of resources. When a player advances a Tech Level, more units, buildings, there are a total of seven military structures in the game. These are the Troop Center, the Shipyard, the Mech factory, the Jedi Temple or Sith Temple depending on the faction, the Heavy Weapons Factory, the Airbase, the Troop center produces cannon fodder early game units. These are the Grenadier, the Anti-Air trooper, the Mounted Trooper, the Shipyard produces ships, these being the Frigate, the Destroyer, the Cruiser, and the Anti-Air Frigate. The Mech Factory produces Scouts, Assault Mechs, Strike Mechs, the Jedi Temple or Sith Temple is a depository for Holocrons and produces Jedi Padawans/Sith Apprentice and Jedi Knights/Sith Knights as well as Jedi Masters/Sith Masters. The Fortress serves as a structure and produces the civilizations unique unit and an anti-jedi Bounty Hunter, as well as long-range cannons. It fires high-damage, area-of-effect shells at air, sea or ground targets over long reload times while being durable and it is the most directly powerful unit in the game If Victory is set to standard, the player can win in three different ways. The player may win by destroying all of the enemies buildings, also, the player can use a Jedi/Sith to bring all of the Holocrons to the Jedi/Sith Temple and preserve them for 200 days. The final way to win is to build a monument that is available at Tech Level 4. If the monument stays standing for 300 days, then the player wins, tutorial - The campaign sees the player assume the role of Chewbaccas father, Attichitchuk
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan
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Star Wars, Obi-Wan is a 2001 video game published by LucasArts, one of the early titles for the Xbox gaming console. This game features Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Padawan and takes place in around 32 B. B. Y. in the prior to and during the events of Star Wars. Star Wars, Obi-Wan supports a mode called Jedi Battle. In this mode, two players can compete as any one of the Jedi characters unlocked, characters may be unlocked by defeating them in the single player Jedi arena. However, it was scrapped and shifted to exclusive Xbox development. Plans for objective based multiplayer modes and online play were also scrapped, after the release, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance versions were planned but they were cancelled due to mediocre reviews. Star Wars, Obi-Wan was met with mixed reception upon release, GameRankings gave it a score of 59. 78%. Star Wars, Obi-Wan on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki Star Wars, Obi-Wan at MobyGames
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002 video game)
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This list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon. C-3PO and R2-D2 are the characters to appear in all films to date
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Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
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Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. Originally it was licensed from 1999–2008, but the Lego Group extended the license with Lucasfilm Ltd. multiple times, First to 2011. In 2012 another 10-year agreement was signed between the two companies, many short films and miniseries have also been produced. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history. The first few sets based on the trilogy were released in 1999. Sets based on the trilogy of Star Wars would follow. As each new film in the prequel trilogy neared its release date, Lego issued new models of ships and scenes in those films, Lego also produced models based on The Clone Wars, which was released early in 2008. Sets based on The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels have also been produced, in addition to the regular minifigure-scale sets, Lego has released several sets for the Ultimate Collector Series. These models are larger, more detailed, are usually meant for display purposes. Many of them include an information plaque and often a display stand, on October 10,2007, the Lego Group released a UCS version of the Millennium Falcon, complete with five minifigures. At 5195 pieces, it is the largest Star Wars Lego set ever released, the newest Ultimate Collector Series set is the 75095 TIE Fighter. On June 5,2015 an unopened box of the Millennium Falcon Lego set was auctioned at auction house Catawiki for 5,000 euros. While also upgrading the first game from the PS2 and Original Xbox generation, to the Xbox 360 and PS2/PS3 generation. The Lego Star Wars Movie Video Game which contains cutscenes from the movie & is available for Wii, Wii U, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, several films and videos based on Lego Star Wars have been produced. In it Vader hires Boba Fett to track down the Gungan Jar Jar Binks for an accident he caused to Vader. Lego Star Wars, The Padawan Menace released on July 7,2011, is a 30-minute, when Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers one of the younglings secretly boarded his ship. and has a taste for adventure. Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group, Yoda and the droids proceed to save the younglings from Sith lords
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Lego Star Wars
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Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme that incorporates the Star Wars saga. Originally it was licensed from 1999–2008, but the Lego Group extended the license with Lucasfilm Ltd. multiple times, First to 2011. In 2012 another 10-year agreement was signed between the two companies, many short films and miniseries have also been produced. The first Lego Star Wars, released in 1999, included model 7140, Star Wars was the first intellectual property to be licensed in Lego Group history. The first few sets based on the trilogy were released in 1999. Sets based on the trilogy of Star Wars would follow. As each new film in the prequel trilogy neared its release date, Lego issued new models of ships and scenes in those films, Lego also produced models based on The Clone Wars, which was released early in 2008. Sets based on The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels have also been produced, in addition to the regular minifigure-scale sets, Lego has released several sets for the Ultimate Collector Series. These models are larger, more detailed, are usually meant for display purposes. Many of them include an information plaque and often a display stand, on October 10,2007, the Lego Group released a UCS version of the Millennium Falcon, complete with five minifigures. At 5195 pieces, it is the largest Star Wars Lego set ever released, the newest Ultimate Collector Series set is the 75095 TIE Fighter. On June 5,2015 an unopened box of the Millennium Falcon Lego set was auctioned at auction house Catawiki for 5,000 euros. While also upgrading the first game from the PS2 and Original Xbox generation, to the Xbox 360 and PS2/PS3 generation. The Lego Star Wars Movie Video Game which contains cutscenes from the movie & is available for Wii, Wii U, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, several films and videos based on Lego Star Wars have been produced. In it Vader hires Boba Fett to track down the Gungan Jar Jar Binks for an accident he caused to Vader. Lego Star Wars, The Padawan Menace released on July 7,2011, is a 30-minute, when Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers one of the younglings secretly boarded his ship. and has a taste for adventure. Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group, Yoda and the droids proceed to save the younglings from Sith lords
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Star Wars (radio)
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An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981,1983, and 1996. The first two series, based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, were produced. A dramatization of Return of the Jedi was produced by most of the same team, lucas also permitted the use of original sound effects and music from the films. In the 1980s, radio drama was in decline in the USA, an associate dean of the University of California School of the Performing Arts, Richard Toscan, was keen to champion this art form. Toscan was supported by John Houseman, the responsible for Orson Welless 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds. He began with the dramatisation of short stories by Raymond Carver on KUSC-FM, following this production, Toscan collaborated with Houseman and NPR producer Frank Mankiewicz on a project to revive the fortunes of NPR Playhouse, the umbrella title for drama productions on NPR. At the suggestion of one of Toscans students, Joel Rosenzweig, they developed an idea for adapting the 1977 epic space opera film, Star Wars, for radio. The popularity of Star Wars would certainly attract new, younger listeners, despite Lucasfilms generous offer, NPR was still faced with the costs of writing scripts, hiring actors and renting studio space. With no funding available to cover the $200,000 budget, NPR entered into a deal with the British broadcaster, the BBC. The BBC provided a team, including director John Madden. The American science fiction novelist Brian Daley was brought in to write the script, Star Wars was launched at a special NPR event at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, in which the drama was played under a starry light show. On the basis of success, KUSC went on to produce popular adaptations of the sequel. An adaptation of Return of the Jedi followed over a decade later, the Star Wars radio dramas were authorised adaptations of Lucass scripts, and were originally considered part of the official Star Wars canon. Commentators have argued that, while the radio dramas vary somewhat from the film scripts, in 1994, Lucasfilms continuity editor, Allan Kausch, stated that Gospel, or canon as we refer to it, includes the screenplays, the films, the radio dramas and the novelisations. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm and all the rights to Star Wars,2015 saw the release of another adaptation of A New Hope called The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy. The author, Alexandra Bracken stated that she was reading the Expanded Universe to try to sneak elements in to the canon, Star Wars is a 13-part radio serial originally broadcast on National Public Radio on March 9,1981. It was adapted by Brian Daley from the 1977 film, and directed by John Madden, with music by John Williams, the serial was recorded in 1981 at Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California. Episode 1, largely based on cut scenes from the original, during the story, Lukes skyhopper is damaged during a desert race, Luke sees the distant star destroyer battle in the sky, and he is reunited with his childhood friend, Biggs Darklighter
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Daran Norris
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Daran Norris is an American actor and voice actor. Turner in the The Fairly OddParents, Buddha Bob in Big Time Rush, born in Ferndale, Washington, Norris graduated from Ferndale High School in 1983, and married voice actress Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in 1988. Norris has been an actor since 1988, beginning work in television commercials for Pop-Tarts, and moving into film, TV. His first film was Hobgoblins in 1988, Norris is known for the role as Gordy in 44 episodes of Neds Declassified School Survival Guide. Gordy is the lazy, wacky janitor who always goads Ned into rash actions while acting as Neds go-to guy for advice. Norris recurred as Buddha Bob in the 2010 series Big Time Rush and he portrayed Cliff McCormack, a public defender and family friend in the television drama Veronica Mars. The character of McCormack served as an ally to Keith and Veronica Mars and he has known Mars creator Rob Thomas since he was three. In 2015, it was announced that Norris would star as Phil Hartman in the film biopic and he is noted for voicing the lead Dick Daring in 71 episodes of The Replacements from 2006 through 2009, and for voicing Mr. In October 2010, Norris voiced the Decepticon Knock Out in The Hub TV network original series, Transformers and he has also been a voice over in the popular anime show Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex. Most recently, Norris recurs as the voice of The Chief and he also does the voices of Barnyard Dawg and Wile E. Coyote in the new TV series, The Looney Tunes Show. Norris also played Mr. Turner in the special television film A Fairly Odd Movie, Grow Up. He has recently done commercials for Burger King, Daran Norris at the Internet Movie Database Daran Norris at Anime News Networks encyclopedia
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Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
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And released as a launch title for the GameCube in North American on November 9,2001 and Europe on May 3,2002. Set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, the game all three original trilogy Star Wars films. The player controls Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles, as the game progresses, Skywalker, Antilles and the Rebel Alliance fight the Galactic Empire in ten missions across various planets. Similar to its predecessor, Star Wars, Rogue Squadron, Rogue Leader is a fast-paced, each of the games ten levels introduces mission objectives such as search and destroy or protection that must be completed to progress to the next level. Enemy aircraft are primarily composed of TIE fighters, Imperial shuttles, ground defenses are more varied and include three different walkers, various laser turrets, probe droids and stormtroopers. The heads-up display features a health meter, a radar, a count for secondary weapons. The player can control seven craft in the game, X-wing, A-wing, Y-wing, B-wing, Snowspeeder, the T-16 Skyhopper. Each vehicle offers a unique armament arrangement, as well as varying degrees of speed, the game initially restricts the player to a particular craft for each level, however, after a level is completed, it can be replayed with any available craft. Some levels offer the player the option to change craft mid-level, eleven bonus power-ups are hidden in different levels throughout the game. These bonuses improve a crafts weapons, durability and targeting computer and are applied to each eligible craft for the remainder of the game, the players performance is measured throughout the game, and performance statistics are checked after each level against three medal benchmarks. If a players performance meets or exceeds one of the levels three benchmarks in all six categories, a medal—bronze, silver or gold—is awarded on completion, acquiring these medals promotes the players rank and helps unlock hidden content. Once the player all of the training missions and achieves gold medals on all 15 levels. The player may then achieve one more medal per level by completing them with this mode activated, Rogue Leader includes a number of unlockable secrets. The player can unlock five bonus levels, two of these levels allow the player to pilot the Millennium Falcon, while two others allow the player to fight against the Rebel Alliance as Darth Vader. The fifth unlockable level pits the player against 99 waves of enemy fighters and these levels can be purchased after the player obtains enough points accumulated via the games medal system. Alternatively, they can be unlocked via password, several craft are also available when unlocked. The Millennium Falcon, the TIE advanced, an Imperial shuttle, a Naboo Starfighter and a TIE fighter may also be selected after the player completes in-game tasks dependent on the time as dictated by the GameCubes real-time clock. A playable model of a 1969 Buick Electra 225 based on a car owned by the sound designer, Rudolph Stember
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Timothy Omundson
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Timothy Michael Omundson is an American actor. Omundson was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, to a railroad worker father and teacher mother. After his family moved to Bellevue, Washington, he started to study theater at the age of twelve at the Seattle Childrens Theater, and interned at various theaters during his high school years. With acting as his focus, he studied during the summer of his junior year in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. For two years in a row, he was Washington State Debate Champion in Dramatic Interpretation, at the age of 13, Omundson spent a month traveling in Germany and Austria with his father, a time he views as one of the most formative months of his life. After graduating from Bellevue, Washingtons Interlake High School in 1987 and he won USCs Jack Nicholson Award and James and Nony Doolittle Award for outstanding achievements in acting. Omundson voices the character Aric Jorgan in the MMORPG Star Wars, Aric Jorgan is the first companion for the Republic Trooper class. In 2014 Omundson had a guest role on The CWs Supernatural especially written for him, Omundson lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Allison, and their daughters. Timothy Omundson at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Timothy Omundson
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Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
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Star Wars Rogue Squadron III, Rebel Strike is an action video game developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube. The game is set during the original Star Wars trilogy and recreates battles that take place during those films, the game follows the Rogue Squadron, which, under the command of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles, uses starfighters to engage and defeat the Galactic Empire. Rebel Strike was developed as a sequel to Star Wars, Rogue Squadron and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II, Rebel Strike added the ability for players to leave their starfighters to participate in ground battles as well as enter and pilot other vehicles during certain missions. The game also has a multiplayer mode allowing cooperative play for all. Rebel Strike contains on-foot missions and space missions, as in the previous Rogue Squadron games. The game also includes some unlockable classic missions inspired by the Star Wars original trilogy, Rebel Strike features two multiplayer modes, Co-op and Versus. Co-op allows players to replay missions from Rogue Squadron II, Rogue Leader in split-screen, excluding the levels Triumph of the Empire, in Co-op, players share the same pool of lives. Versus features a variety of modes, such as Dogfight and Survival, in any Versus mode, players can pilot several craft, including X-Wings, A-Wings, TIE Fighters, and Darth Vaders TIE Advanced. The story is set shortly after the destruction of the Death Star above Yavin 4, the Empire drives the Alliance off the moon, leaving the Alliance searching for a planet to serve as its next base. Tycho Celchu, an Imperial officer, defects to the Alliance on Dantooine, during the battle to rescue the scientists, Rogue Squadron member Sarkli defects to the Empire. Despite this, Rogue Squadron and the scientists escape safely in a transport craft, the Rebels settle on Hoth, but the Battle of Hoth forces them to leave as the Empire attacks and destroys their base. The Wedge Antilles campaign takes place after the Battle of Hoth, Sarkli leads Rogue Squadron into Geonosis orbit, where they both crash following an ambush by TIE fighters and Imperial escort carriers. Rogue Squadron fights with stormtroopers and battle droid remnants, by making use of various pieces of deactivated Galactic Republic machinery left over from the Battle of Geonosis, Rogue Squadron escapes and Wedge flees the system. This uncovers a ploy to wipe out part of the Alliance fleet over Dubrillion, emperor Palpatine reveals that the recent battles were manipulated, making the Rebels overconfident. This proves disadvantageous to the Rebels in the upcoming Battle of Endor, nevertheless, Han Solo, having been rescued from Jabba the Hutt, disables the shield protecting the second Death Star over Endor while killing Sarkli, allowing the Rebels to achieve victory. The game ran into some troubled development, pre-orders for the game included a bonus disc featuring several game demos, trailers, a playable version of the original Star Wars arcade game and a Rebel Strike art gallery. Rebel Strike was met with positive reception, as GameRankings gave it a score of 76. 61%, critics praised the intense gameplay and the ability to have more enemies on screen than on Rogue Leader. However, Rebel Strike was criticized for its missions, due to their clunky game-play
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
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Star Wars, The Force Unleashed is an action-adventure video game and part of The Force Unleashed project. The game was released in North America on September 16,2008, in Australia and Southeast Asia on September 17, LucasArts released downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. An Ultimate Sith Edition of the game, containing new and all previously released expanded content, was released in November 2009, which also came out on Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The project bridges the first two Star Wars trilogies, acting as a story for both the united Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Civil War depicted in the Original Trilogy. Despite this, the game was a bestseller in the United States and Australia, as of February 2010, the game has sold over seven million copies, and it is the fastest-selling Star Wars video game. A sequel, Star Wars, The Force Unleashed II, was released in October 2010, the Force Unleashed is a third-person action game in which the players characters weapons are the Force and a lightsaber. Developers treated the main characters lightsaber like another Force power, and wanted to ensure something visceral, the game has a combo system for stringing lightsaber attacks and for combining lightsaber attacks with Force powers. Experience points earned by killing enemies and finding artifacts can be used to increase Starkillers powers, the gameplay is intended to be easy to learn, the development team included horrible gamers to help ensure the games accessibility. Players can casually run and gun through the game, but the game rewards those who take a stealthy, the game includes enemies that are easy to overcome, game difficulty arises from presenting these enemies in large numbers that can wear down the players character. Additionally, enemies learn from the characters attacks, using the same attack on different characters can sometimes lead to the players character doing less damage. The enemies, which number over 50, have various strengths and weaknesses, the Force Unleashed begins with the player controlling Darth Vader as he searches Kashyyyk for the Jedi. After defeating the Jedi in battle, Vader discovers his child who is strong in the Force and raises him to become his apprentice, unbeknownst to the Emperor. When the apprentice reaches adulthood, Vader sends him to kill the remaining Jedi as training for his ultimate goal, Starkiller is given command of his own ship, the Rogue Shadow, piloted by Imperial officer Juno Eclipse, and is accompanied by PROXY, a training droid. Vader sends Starkiller to an Imperial shipyard to locate and kill General Rahm Kota, after fighting him, Starkiller blinds Kota and throws him from the shipyard. Starkiller is also sent by Vader to destroy Jedi Kazdan Paratus and Shaak Ti, presently the Emperor discovers Starkiller and Vader is forced to dispose of him, but later recovers the unconscious apprentice. Vader instructs him to form a rebellion against the Empire in order for them to distract the Emperor, Starkiller discovers a very-much alive Kota in Cloud City who has taken to living in squalor. Starkiller informs Kota of his plan to fight the Empire and they leave, during his time amassing allies, Starkiller is forced to rescue Kotas contact Bail Organa and his daughter Princess Leia to help his cause. Bail, Leia, Mon Mothma and Garm Bel Iblis meet with Starkiller, however, upon doing so, Vader arrives with Imperial soldiers and arrests the group
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Star Wars: Empire at War
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Star Wars, Empire at War is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Petroglyph Games and published by LucasArts. Set between Episode III and Episode IV, it focuses on the struggle between the Empire and the Rebels. It uses Petroglyphs game engine Alamo, in October 2006, an expansion titled Star Wars, Empire at War, Forces of Corruption was released. As of May 31,2014, online functionality, including network multiplayer and wireless chat is no longer due to Glu Mobile purchasing GameSpy. There are three modes, storyline-based Campaign, Galactic Conquest and Skirmish. Battles can take place on a planet or above the planet, land battles are fought with infantry and ground vehicle units, while space battles are fought with starfighter squadrons and large spacecraft. Galactic Conquest is the campaign, in which the player controls either the Rebel Alliance or The Empire. A weaker, neutral faction of Pirates exists, but makes no attempt to battle the Rebels or Empire unless attacked, grand strategy, production, and resource management are facilitated through a three-dimensional galactic map. The player receives funds from planets they control and from mining facilities, money is used to research technology, build defenses and vehicles, and train troops. Each planet confers different advantages to its owner, even though some bonuses are specific to each faction, when enemy forces meet a battle ensues. The player can use only the equipment they brought to the battle, factions must battle across both space and land maps. The defender may use any buildings or his space station if he has constructed them. In each battle, each side may only have a number of units on the field at a time, the rest are retained as Reinforcements. In land battles, a player can field more units at a time if he captures Reinforcement Points, the storyline campaign follows a semi-open linear path, where the given side must complete sequential mission objectives. Campaign missions build up to the plot of Star Wars and eventually, the campaign is very similar to Galactic Conquest, although the Galactic Map is gradually opened for play as the player completes scripted events and completes missions. Skirmish mode is the familiar, classic RTS mode, skirmishes come in two types, land and space. In land skirmishes, all start with bases and must research upgrades. In space skirmish mode, all players have a station that can be upgraded
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Disney Infinity 3.0
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It was developed by Avalanche Software, with additional help from Ninja Theory, Studio Gobo, Sumo Digital, and United Front Games. In contrast to how Disney Infinity 2.0 focused on Marvel characters, the game was announced on May 5,2015, and was released on August 28,2015 in Europe and on August 30,2015 in North America. Unlike the previous two games, this game was not released on handhelds and this game was the final video game published by Disney Interactive Studios and the end of the Disney Infinity series. Disney Infinity 3.0 features similar mechanics to Disney Infinity and Disney Infinity. Although sharing many key elements, the combat system has been redesigned to become more in-depth. The games combat system is influenced by the Star Wars, The Force Unleashed and its sequel, Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry, lightsabers have been integrated into combat, due to the inclusion of Star Wars characters. Characters who use lightsabers in combat can utilize additional weapons, for instance, playable character Luke Skywalker has the ability to use a blaster and a lightsaber, which used together can juggle enemies in the air. Full combos have been integrated, which allows the player to pause mid-combo, playable characters with the ability to use the Force, in Star Wars mythology, have the ability to push and pull enemies during combat. Special attacks, which were introduced in Disney Infinity, Marvel Super Heroes, have returned, only the bearer of a close-ranged type weapon, including the characters who have their own primary close-ranged weapons, and characters who can fly are able to perform an aerial combo. Instead of waiting for a bar to fill up for a special attack to be performed, a new feature allows the attack to be released early. Auto-lock when firing ranged weapons at targets has been enhanced, so no longer have to move closer to enemies in order to auto-lock on their positions. The Twilight of the Republic Playset storyline is based on the era of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, set during the events of Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda and Ahsoka Tano discover a reactivated Droid factory on the planet Geonosis. The four Jedi then decide to find out who is the mastermind behind the newly minted droid army, the Rise Against the Empire Playset storyline is based on the events of the classic Star Wars trilogy, with some differences. The Playset revolves around Luke Skywalker, his sister Leia, Han Solo, a playset based on Star Wars, The Force Awakens was released in December 2015, it was announced at the D23 Expo that the playset would feature Finn and Rey from the film. Kylo Ren and Poe Dameron were later confirmed as playable characters, in the Inside Out playset, Riley falls asleep watching a horror movie and chaos ensues in her subconscious. This scatters some of Rileys memories all over Imagination Land and the emotions must find, a play set featuring Marvel characters fighting each other on a series of levels. All Marvel characters from Disney Infinity 2.0 are playable in this playset, along with new characters introduced in 3.0, such as Hulkbuster, Ant-Man, Black Panther and this is also the first play set to utilize four-player local gameplay. In the Finding Dory playset, Dory learns of a flood at the Marine Life Institute that has washed the littlest fish into all the wrong tanks, together with Nemo, Marlin, Hank, Bailey and Destiny, she returns to rescue them and lead them out to safety
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Jedi
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The Jedi /ˈdʒɛˌdaɪ/ are the main protagonists in the Star Wars universe. They are depicted as an ancient monastic and academic meritocratic organization whose origin dates back to c.25,000 BBY. The Jedi Order mostly consists of polymaths, teachers, philosophers, scientists, engineers, physicians, diplomats and warriors, by serving others, the Jedi give of themselves through acts of charity, citizenship, and volunteerism. A Jedis ideology and strict way of life as a challenge to live up to is a recurring theme in the Star Wars universe. Their traditional weapon is the lightsaber, a device which generates a blade-like plasma controlled by a crystal, the fictional organization has inspired a real-world new religious movement, Jediism. As depicted in the canon, the Jedi study and utilize the Force, in order to help, like their counterparts, the Sith, their main weapon is the lightsaber. By training the mind and the body the Jedi seek to improve themselves by gaining unfettered access to the Force while also seeking to improve those individuals, the film Rogue One suggests that it relates to the planet Jedha, source of the kyber crystals used in lightsabers. George Lucas acknowledged Jedi concepts have been inspired by many sources, the work of the mythologist Joseph Campbell, especially his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, directly influenced Lucas, and was what drove him to create the modern myth of Star Wars. The Lost Twenty was the given to a group of Jedi Masters—numbering twenty in total—who left the Jedi Order throughout its history. The first twelve of these ‘Lost Twenty’ left the Jedi Order before the Third Great Schism, these twelve Masters later became Dark Jedi who eventually founded the first Sith Empire. In the years preceding the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Dooku left the Jedi Order as a result of differences with his fellow Jedi, to commemorate these former Jedi, memorial statue busts were displayed at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The prequel films depict the Jedi in their prime, dealing with the presence of the dark side of the Force and determined to fight their mortal enemies. Once corrupted, Vader helps Palpatine hunt down and destroy all of the Jedi, leaving very few left, such as Jedi Masters Yoda. The first person to be issued this order was Clone Commander Cody, Darth Vader led Operation, Knightfall against the Jedi Temple with the 501st Legion while the rest of the clone army around the galaxy carried out Order 66. Palpatine convinced the people of the Republic that Jedi were corrupted warmongers responsible for prolonging the Clone Wars, Darth Vader continued to hunt and execute surviving Jedi by the thousands during the first 10 years of the Empires history. The Jedi are first introduced in the 1977 motion picture Star Wars as an order of monks who serve as the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. Obi-Wan Kenobi explains that the Galactic Empire had all but exterminated the Jedi some twenty years before the events of the film, Darth Vader is also established as the Jedis main enemy. By the end of the film, Luke is on the path to becoming a Jedi, the third film in the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi, ends with Luke redeeming Vader and helping to destroy the Empire, thus fulfilling his destiny as a Jedi
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Galactic Republic
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The Galactic Republic, often referred to as simply the Republic, is the name of the interplanetary State used in the fictional Star Wars universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire. The form of government, ruled by the Senate, was introduced in the prequel trilogy. By the time of the trilogy, it is referred to as the Old Republic. It was a democratic, though eventually ineffectual, constitutional republic tied up in layers of bureaucracy, the Republic, as it was commonly known, was a republican government that was able to sustain itself for over twenty-five thousand years. The Republic itself was formed in 25,053 BBY when the first Galactic Constitution was signed on Coruscant, the Republic was made up of several hundred thousand worlds. The Republic began as a protection and economic alliance among a number of planets in the Galactic Core. Each member world chose a Senator to represent them in the Republic Senate, Senators were ambassadors of their homeworld, and member worlds were able to maintain their government and society in accordance with local beliefs, customs, and traditions. There were a variety of different local governments along the political spectrum. In some systems, the senator was elected to that post, when the Republics power and influence expanded, many new areas of the galaxy were incorporated into the Republic. A reorganization of Senatorial representation occurred 1,000 BBY during the Ruusan Reformation, the most common organization for these new territories was to group regions into Sectors of about 50 inhabited worlds. Each sector is represented by a Senatorial Delegation, when the number of sectors became too large, sectors were organized into roughly a thousand regions, each represented by one delegation to the Senate. The Senate served as the body of the Galactic Republic. The Senate, according to the Star Wars. com Encyclopedia, was a building containing 1,024 floating platforms, each of which contained a senator. Each platform in the senate represented a sector of the galaxy, with one senator for that sector accompanied by a delegation of aides, some platforms represented individual worlds bringing special pleas to the senate, others the special interest groups such as the Trade Federation. Along with the senators, the leaders of the individual member planets apparently also had the power to vote in the Senate, each senatorial delegation had one vote. In the spirit of C-SPAN2, Senate cam droids, also known as Senate hovercams, were floating cam droids used in the Galactic Senate to record the legislative sessions. The members of the Senate then elected a Chancellor from among their ranks who served as the Senates presiding officer and as the Republics de facto leader. The Chancellor was assisted by the Vice Chair, who is elected in the same manner as the Chancellor
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Rebel Alliance
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The Alliance to Restore the Republic is an interstellar revolutionary faction in the fictional universe of Star Wars. Their goal was to seize the Alliance forces, the Rebel Alliance was first featured as the main protagonist-faction in the 1977 film Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The origins of the Alliance to Restore the Republic are told during the events of Revenge of the Sith, the group included Bail Organa, Padmé Amidala, and Mon Mothma, amongst others. Amidala was, at the time, the most famous and prominent of the group and she realized that this made her a target and later advised the others to go quiet in their dissent and exclude her from any future proceedings. The young senator died in premature childbirth not long after her attempt to prevent Anakin Skywalkers fall. The show focuses on a group of rebels that band together aboard a freighter starship called Ghost. By the end of the first season, it is revealed there are various cells that are resisting the Empire. Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and former Jedi Ahsoka Tano both play a role in coordinating them, during the events of Rogue One and the original Star Wars, the Alliance learns of the construction of the Death Star, an enormous battle station intended to secure the Empires power. With the help of the Rogue One squad led by Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor, right after the battle, the Tantive IV, an Alderaanian cruiser carrying Princess Leia is captured by the Imperial fleet while attempting to deliver the Death Star Plans to Bail Organa on Alderaan. The Princess is subsequently rescued by Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan Kenobi and this leads directly to the Alliances victory in the Battle of Yavin and the loyalty of Luke Skywalker, the Rebellions only remaining member with training in the Force. In The Empire Strikes Back, the Alliance suffers a defeat on Hoth when one of their main command centers. The remaining forces of the Rebellion are forced to stay mobile, using Admiral Ackbars flagship, Home One, by Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance has regrouped and learned that a new Death Star is being constructed, and will be completed under Emperor Palpatines personal supervision. Mon Mothma has Admiral Ackbar and Lando Calrissian command the Alliance fleet and dispatches Han Solo and Princess Leia to disable the stations defenses, the Alliance subsequently wins the Battle of Endor, in which Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and much of the Imperial hierarchy are destroyed. Thus, the Empire is essentially defeated, and the Rebellion liberates most of the galaxy, by The Force Awakens, the New Republic has formed from the Rebellion. The Resistance, an army backed up by the New Republic and successor of the Alliance, is formed to stand against the First Order, a new military power formed by remnants from the Old Empire. The incident begins when an Imperial military cruiser commanded by Captain Wilhuff Tarkin is blocked by peaceful anti-Empire protesters who refuse to move off the landing pad. With implied permission from the Emperor, Tarkin lands the ship anyway, injuring and killing many, the myriad of civilizations which are fighting the Empire continue to grow in number and progressively coalesce into a ragtag organization known as the Resistance. They intend upon removing the evil Emperor, but the growing ruthlessness of the Imperial state forces them into secrecy and these Rebel starfighters were equipped with hyperdrive capability along prearranged routes which would allow this kind of harassment and escape before the Empire may react
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Qui-Gon Jinn
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Qui-Gon Jinn is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Liam Neeson as the main protagonist of the 1999 film Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Qui-Gon is one of the characters in the first episode of the prequel trilogy, Star Wars. He is a Jedi Master and mentor of Obi-Wan Kenobi, unlike other, more conservative Jedi, he values living in the moment as the best way to embrace the Force. Jinn is not a member of the Jedi Council, despite being among the wisest and most powerful of the Jedi, on arrival they are attacked by their host. The Jedi retreat to the planet and rescue its besieged Queen and their attempt to run the blockade and make way for the galactic capital of Coruscant succeeds, but the queens ship is damaged and is forced to land on the backwater planet of Tatooine for repairs. Qui-Gon is even more intrigued when Anakins mother, Shmi, tells him that the boy had no father. Realising Anakin might be the Chosen One of Jedi lore destined to bring balance to the Force, Qui-Gon bets Anakins freedom and the parts on a pod race. The entourage leave Tatooine, but not before Qui-Gon is attacked by an unknown Sith Lord, upon returning to Coruscant, Jinn asks the Jedi Council to allow Anakin to be trained as a Jedi. Master Yoda senses fear in the boy, and the Council refuses his request, undaunted, Qui-Gon vows that he himself will train Anakin when Obi-Wan becomes a Jedi Knight. The two Jedi, R2-D2 and Amidala return to Naboo to liberate the planet, there, the trio are confronted by the Sith Lord from earlier, who reveals himself as Darth Maul. After an arduous lightsaber duel, Maul mortally wounds Jinn, but is defeated by Obi Wan. Before dying, Qui-Gon makes Obi-Wan promise he will train Anakin, Qui-Gon is mentioned, and seen, in Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. In Attack of the Clones, Yoda hears Qui-Gons voice cry out to Anakin through the Force as Anakin slaughters a tribe of Tusken Raiders. In Revenge of the Sith, Yoda reveals to Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon has returned from the netherworld of the Force in order to both of them how to retain ones consciousness after death. In a deleted scene, Yoda mentally hears his voice before the arriving of senator Bail Organa, in the novelization, Yoda finally admits that Qui-Gon was indeed a great Jedi Master. In Star Wars, Clone Wars, Qui-Gon makes a appearance in Chapter 21. During Yodas Force dream, Qui-Gon tells Anakin to enter the cave on Dagobah where the boy will see a vision of his future. Later when Obi-Wan reprimands Anakin for being late for his secret Knighthood ceremony, Anakin replies as far as your wisdom goes, though this saddens Obi-Wan, Anakin quickly apologizes, to which Obi-Wan responds that Qui-Gon is still alive
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Yoda
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Yoda is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, first appearing in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back. In the original films, he trains Luke Skywalker to fight against the Galactic Empire, in the prequel films, he serves as the Grand Master of the Jedi Order and as a high-ranking general of Clone Troopers in the Clone Wars. Frank Oz provided Yodas voice in each film and used his skills as a puppeteer in the trilogy and Star Wars. For some walking scenes in Episodes V and I, dwarf actors Deep Roy, the make-up artist Stuart Freeborn based Yodas face partly on his own and partly on Albert Einsteins. In The Phantom Menace, he was redesigned to look younger and he was computer-generated for two distant shots, but remained mostly a puppet. The puppet was re-designed by Nick Dudman from Stuart Freeborns original design, in Revenge of the Sith, his face appears in several big close-ups, demanding highly detailed CGI work. His performance was designed to be consistent with the limitations of the puppet version. Rob Coleman was responsible for the new incarnation to the series. Yoda was recreated in CGI for the 2011 Blu-ray release of The Phantom Menace, a clip of the new CG Yoda from The Phantom Menace was first seen in the featurette The Chosen One, included in the 2005 DVD release of Revenge of the Sith. The 2012 theatrical 3D release of The Phantom Menace also features the CG version of Yoda, Grand Jedi Master Yoda is among the oldest and most powerful known Jedi Masters in the Star Wars universe. Series creator George Lucas opted to have details of the characters life history remain unknown. Yodas race and home world have not been named in any media, canonical or otherwise, Yodas speech syntax has been analyzed and discussed by academic syntacticians, who found it somewhat inconsistent, but could extrapolate that it has object–subject–verb word order. In the Star Wars prequel films, he instructs several younglings in the Jedi Temple before they are assigned to a master and this was displayed in a scene in Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones. In The Empire Strikes Back he mentioned that he had been training Jedi for 800 years, Yoda makes his first film appearance in The Empire Strikes Back. Luke Skywalker arrives on Dagobah to seek his guidance, having been instructed to do so by the Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yoda does not initially identify himself to Luke and instead tests his patience by presenting himself as a comical and senile backwater individual, Luke is shocked when he finally realizes that this small, elderly creature is the powerful Jedi Master he was seeking. Finding that Luke has the same anger and recklessness which caused his fathers downfall, Yoda is reluctant to teach him in the ways of the Force, and agrees only at Obi-Wans behest. Before finishing his training, however, Luke chooses to leave Dagobah in order to confront Darth Vader, Yoda and Obi-Wan warn him that he is not ready to face Vader and is being lured into a trap, but Luke leaves anyway, promising to return
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Darth Vader
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Darth Vader, also known by his birth name Anakin Skywalker, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. The character was created by George Lucas and has been portrayed by numerous actors and his appearances span the first six Star Wars films, as well as Rogue One, and his character is heavily referenced in Star Wars, The Force Awakens. He is also an important character in the Star Wars expanded universe of television series, video games, novels, literature and comic books. Originally a Jedi prophesied to bring balance to the Force, he falls to the side of the Force and serves the evil Galactic Empire at the right hand of his Sith master. He is also the father of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa, grandfather of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader has become one of the most iconic villains in popular culture, and has been listed among the greatest villains and fictional characters ever. The American Film Institute listed him as the third greatest movie villain in history on 100 Years. 100 Heroes and Villains, behind Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates, however, other critics consider him a tragic hero, citing his original motivations for the greater good before his fall to the dark side. After the success of the original Star Wars, series creator George Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write the sequel with him and they held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment. The treatment is similar to the film, except that Vader does not reveal he is Lukes father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Lukes father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke, Lucas was disappointed with the script, but Brackett died of cancer before he could discuss it with her. With no writer available, Lucas had to write the next draft himself, in this draft, he made use of a new plot twist, Vader claiming to be Lukes father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, the new plot element of Lukes parentage had drastic effects on the series. Anakin battled Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was badly wounded, meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Galactic Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi. This change in character would provide a springboard to the Tragedy of Darth Vader storyline that underlies the prequel trilogy, after deciding to create the prequel trilogy, Lucas indicated the series would be a tragic one depicting Anakins fall to the dark side. He also saw that the prequels could form the beginning of one story that started with Anakins childhood. This was the step towards turning the film series into a saga. For the first prequel, Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Movie trailers focused on Anakin and a one-sheet poster showing him casting Vaders shadow informed otherwise unknowing audiences of the characters eventual fate. The movie ultimately achieved a goal of introducing audiences to Anakin
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Luke Skywalker
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Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. The character, portrayed by Mark Hamill, is an important figure in the Rebel Alliances struggle against the Galactic Empire. The now non-canon Star Wars expanded universe depicts him as a powerful Jedi Master, husband of Mara Jade, in 2015, the character was selected by Empire magazine as the 50th greatest movie character of all time. On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania. com ranked the character at number 14, Luke Skywalker was initially called Anakin Starkiller, and went through multiple design changes. The character was at one point designed as a 60-year-old grizzled war hero, later as a Jedi Master, the last name Starkiller remained for the first few months of production, Hamill on-camera using the name Luke Starkiller the sole time he referred to himself during filming. Starkiller was dropped due to what Lucas called unpleasant connotations, after Hamill was involved in a car accident, the Wampa attack at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back was written in to explain his facial injuries. An alternative ending pitched by George Lucas for Return of the Jedi was Luke assuming his fathers role as Darth Vader after the latters death, though Lawrence Kasdan favored the idea, Lucas ultimately declined, since the films were made for children. Another conclusion to the featured the character disappearing into the wilderness akin to Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns. During the filming of the original Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas informed Hamill that he would be needed to reprise the role when he was middle aged, Lucas further explained that his role as Luke would be handing Excalibur to the next generation. Hamill had no reaction at the time, as he thought of making Star Wars films decades in the future as an abstract concept, Hamill learned of the sequel trilogy over the summer of 2012 at a Star Wars celebration during lunch where Lucas told him one was in development. Hamill recalled shaving his beard to portray The Trickster in The Flash, Hamill attended meetings for script readings, and helped conceal Lukes role in the film, instead of dialogue, he read stage directions. Abrams said it allowed him to remain involved and that his reading helped make an experience for everyone. In the prequel film, Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Luke is born to Senator Padmé Amidala along with his twin sister, Luke Skywalker lives on a moisture farm on Tatooine with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. Luke takes his first steps toward his destiny when he buys the droids C-3PO, when R2-D2 goes missing, Luke goes out to find him and encounters Obi-Wan Kenobi, an old hermit. Luke discovers that R2-D2 contains a message for Obi-Wan from Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan beseeching him to help her defeat the Galactic Empire, Obi-Wan says that he and Lukes father were once Jedi Knights, and that his father was murdered by a traitorous Jedi named Darth Vader. Obi-Wan presents Luke with his fathers lightsaber and offers to him to Alderaan and train him in the ways of the Force. Luke changes his mind when he returns home to find that Imperial stormtroopers have killed his aunt, Obi-Wan deactivates the tractor beam and he later sacrifices his life in a duel with Vader so that Luke and his friends can board the Falcon and escape. During the films battle scene, Luke joins the Rebel Alliance in attacking the Death Star
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Hermit
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A hermit is a person who lives in seclusion from society. In Christianity, the term was applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction. In the Christian tradition the eremitic life is a form of monastic living that preceded the monastic life in the cenobium. The Rule of St Benedict lists hermits among four kinds of monks, other religions, for example, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Taoism, also have hermits in the sense of individuals living an ascetic form of life. In modern colloquial usage, hermit denotes anyone living apart from the rest of society, or simply participating in social events. In the common Christian tradition the first known Christian hermit in Egypt was Paul of Thebes, an antecedent for Egyptian eremiticism may have been the Syrian solitary or son of the covenant who undertook special disciplines as a Christian. In the Middle Ages some Carmelite hermits claimed to trace their origin to Jewish hermits organized by Elijah, Christian hermits in the past have often lived in isolated cells or hermitages, whether a natural cave or a constructed dwelling, situated in the desert or the forest. They tended to be out for spiritual advice and counsel. Some eventually acquired so many disciples that they had no physical solitude at all, the early Christian Desert Fathers wove baskets to exchange for bread. In medieval times hermits were also found within or near cities where they earn a living as a gate keeper or ferryman. From the Middle Ages and down to modern times eremitical monasticism has also practiced within the context of religious institutes in the Christian West. This applies to both their monks and their nuns, there have also been many hermits who chose that vocation as an alternative to other forms of monastic life. In the 11th century, the life of the hermit gained recognition as a legitimate independent pathway to salvation, many hermits in that century and the next came to be regarded as saints. The term anchorite is often used as a synonym for hermit, not only in the earliest written sources, yet the anchoritic life, while similar to the eremitic life, can also be distinct from it. Anchorites and anchoresses lived the life in the solitude of an anchorhold, usually a small hut or cell. The door of an anchorage tended to be bricked up in a ceremony conducted by the local bishop after the anchorite had moved in. Another window looked out into the street or cemetery, enabling charitable neighbors to deliver food, clients seeking the anchorites advice might also use this window to consult him or her. There are also lay people who follow an eremitic lifestyle
