Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back (The Original Trailer)

Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back. I love the feel of these original trailers. They really make the Movies seem epic.

The voice over style has been used in the recent cartoon Clone Wars series at the beginning of each show.



Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is set 3 years after the events of Episode 4: A New Hope and was released to Movie goers in 1980.

This fifth installment sees the Empire bouncing back from the destruction of the Death Star and its continued perusal of the growing Rebellion. Luke Skywalker confronts and battles Darth Vader for the first time where he tells him those memorable words, "No, I am your father". Luke doesn't take the news well.

As Empire was made many years before the prequels, it was the film to first introduce the skilled and mysterious Bounty Hunter, Boba Fett, Grand Jedi Master Yoda and also the suave business man, Lando Calrissian.

A Special enhanced version of the movie was later released in 1997.

The budget of the Movie was $33 Million and it grossed over $538 Million worldwide.

Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope (The Original Trailer)

The fourth Episode of the Star Wars Saga, but this historically is where Star Wars originally began in the Movie Theatres.

The Movie was a colossal success, becoming one of the most successful and influential films of all time. Below is the original trailer.



Episode 4 - A New Hope is set 19 years after the events of Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith and sees the start of the Rebellion against the Empire. The Empire have just completed construction of their dreaded Death Star and plan to wipe out the Rebellion before it can grow any further.

Most notably this is where the smuggler Han Solo and his ship, the Millennium Falcon enter the Star Wars Universe.

With a budget of a comparatively low $11 Million, Star Wars A New Hope went on to gross over $775 Million at Movie Theatres.

Later in the 1990's George Lucas was to re-release the Movie with new digital effects and added scenes that had been originally cut.

Oh dear, London Designer feels the Might of the Empire

Designer Andrew Ainsworth is currently in a legal fight with Lucasfilm due to replica Storm Trooper costumes he sold over the Internet.

Ainsworth made Storm Trooper helmets for the original Star Wars Movie - A New Hope then later went on to sell unlicensed replicas of these plus replicas of the full white iconic armour.

The original court hearing ended last year at London's High Court. Ainsworth was judged to have violated Lucas's U.S. copyright, but a copyright claim against him was rejected under British law. This was because, it was deemed, the costumes were not works of art.

Lucasfilm have appealed this stating the costumes should be seen as works of art under British Law as they should be classified as sculptures due to the nature in which they are made. Lucasfilm wish to enforce a US$20 million judgment won against Ainsworth in a California court in 2006.

The case is scheduled to last three days. The London Designer may have a bad feeling about this.