How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe

The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise

2014

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If you like Star Wars, if you really really like Star Wars, and you're always on the hunt for more on Star Wars, go get this book.

No, really, this goes into pretty much everything I've ever wondered about. The first part of the book is more about in what ways Star Wars has taken over our world, how it's something everyone knows something about even if they've never seen any of the movies, on Jediism, the start of the Expanded Universe, some media that inspired George Lucas to want to create “the Star Wars”, on what fans unintentionally contributed to the movies, and a lot more that I can't even remember.
The second part is what I found the most interesting - there it goes through each of the movies, from 1977 to 2005, how they came to be, how they were received, and what happened afterwards. Then it goes further into Star Wars: Underworld (which never made it past pre-production) and the two The Clone Wars series, and eventually, up to when Disney bought Lucasfilm.
Throughout its entirety, they also mention a couple of popular rumors surrounding the franchise that they debunk/disagree with.

As a fan of Star Wars and as someone who wants to get their hands on everything related to it, this was really great. I've read some reviews here and there that this will still be interesting for someone only moderately interested in Star Wars, but I'm not too sure of that. I think in that case, you'd more want to skip ahead to the chapters you're inclined to know more about, instead of some chapters about “obscure” things you might be less interested in.

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