Six if you are counting the regular series (1977-2008) but there were more spin-offs released, like clone wars.
Star Wars was made with special fx to make the star wars movies come to life for example. Star Wars 3 revenge if the sith the battle between obi 1 and anikan battle in the musstofur system. Anikan lost and fell into the lava but he wasn't actually burnt
Star Wars was never based on books. John Williems made the movies and that is that. There IS books based on the movies though, each in the same year it was made.
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the movies are made by George Lucas
it will be made in 3d in 2012
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Star wars 4, 5, and 6 were directed by George Lucas. All the star wars films were written and screen played by him also. Star Trek was made by J.J Abrams.
The years that the seven Star Wars movies were made were: A New Hope: 1977 Empire Strikes Back: 1980 Return of The Jedi: 1983 The Phantom Menace: 1999 Attack of The Clones: 2002 Revenge of The Sith: 2005 Star Wars The Clone Wars: 2008
No, the Force Unleashed games are not going to be made into movies
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No. More movies are going to be made
6, and then there was an animated expanded universe movie.