I don’t think people who didn’t live through it can realize just how amazing it was.
Before Star Wars, science fiction movies were basically Plan 9 From Outer Space. Silly movies with bad acting and bad writing. No adult took them seriously. Star Wars came along and everything changed.
You only have to look at the response from studios, scrambling over themselves trying to find a “space story” they could rush into theaters.
Paramount shifted a planned Star Trek series to making, Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Disney dusted off the plans for The Black Hole
Alien
Battlestar Galactica
Star Wars showed studios they could make money producing serious science fiction.
I really can’t stress the importance of having seen Star Wars in the theater in 1977. It was a mind-blowing experience.
I don’t think people who didn’t live through it can realize just how amazing it was.
Before Star Wars, science fiction movies were basically Plan 9 From Outer Space. Silly movies with bad acting and bad writing. No adult took them seriously. Star Wars came along and everything changed.
You only have to look at the response from studios, scrambling over themselves trying to find a “space story” they could rush into theaters.
Paramount shifted a planned Star Trek series to making, Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Disney dusted off the plans for The Black Hole
Alien
Battlestar Galactica
Star Wars showed studios they could make money producing serious science fiction.