On the small screen, Star Wars has been parodied with Family Guy’s trilogy of “Laugh It Up, Fuzzball” specials and regularly on Robot Chicken.
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First was the 1978 short Hardware Wars, followed more famously by Mel Brooks’s Spaceballs plus parts of the broadly spoofing Austin Powers, Hot Shots, Airplane and Naked Gun movies. In addition to all the movies and TV shows that ripped off Star Wars, there have been plenty that more respectfully poked fun at the franchise. Television has been impacted, too, visible with all the versions of Battlestar Galactica, plus Firefly and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Of course, it wasn’t just the movies that copied Star Wars.
You can clearly see Star Wars envy in the movies Flash Gordon, Battle Beyond the Stars, Dune, The Last Starfighter, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin and many others, and the influence has continued through the years, most recently in Guardians of the Galaxy and even the non-sci-fi Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
With the imminent arrival of Force Friday II, kicking off on Friday, September 1, and the launch of new products inspired by Star Wars: The Last Jedi, due in theaters on December 15, here's a look at just the basics of what Star Wars has inspired over the decades.įollowing the success of the first Star Wars movie, Hollywood quickly sought to cash in on the popularity with more outer-space adventure movies, many of them similarly paying homage to the sci-fi serials of the 1930s and 1940s. In its 40 years of existence as an entertainment property it has also become a cultural entity unlike any other, a phenomenon that has probably influenced pop culture more than anything else in our time.
It’s more than a series of movies and more than an extended franchise of television shows, comic books, expanded universe novels, trading cards, costumes, toys and other merchandise, both cool and strange.