Q&As About 'Star Wars': What is the name of the first Star Wars movie of the Original Trilogy?
1977 poster promoting Star Wars. © 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation On Quora, Marielle Jenna asks: What is the name of the first Star Wars movie of the Original Trilogy? My reply: Officially, the name of the first Star Wars movie of the Original Trilogy is Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope. Originally, though, 20th Century Fox released writer-director George Lucas’s now-iconic space fantasy adventure on May 25, 1977 as Star Wars. The studio, which financed, marketed, and released the film (indeed, owning the rights in perpetuity, although that’s now a moot point since The Walt Disney Company now owns Fox and Lucasfilm) allegedly refused to allow Lucas to include the Episode IV: A New Hope subtitle in the main titles sequence. Per Lucas’s account in the director’s commentary, Fox executives feared that audiences would be put off by seeing an “Episode IV” subtitle at a time when no other Star Wars movies had been produced. In spite of Lucas’s pitch th