Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Who has never heard about “Star Wars” ? Whether you like it or not, nobody can ignore the fact that Star Wars is one of the most popular series of all times. And a lot of little boys have been dreaming of being trained to be the next Jedi who would save the world.

Except the story that we all know, there are a lot of interesting information about how these movies have been made by George Lucas. The difficult thing George Lucas had to overcome was the fact that, when he started his writing, the end of the story was already well-known by all fans of Star Wars. Three movies had been released in 1977, 1980 and 1983, and were already a worlwide pop culture phenomenon.

Also, George Lucas was supposed to write only one long film to cover the beginning of the Star Wars. As a matter of fact, the title of this film was “The Beggining”. But as he was writing, he realized that he could not cover the whole story in just one episode. George Lucas elaborated the first episode, and thought that depending on how successful this movie would be, there would be sequels to it. By the time he finished to write his third episode, he already had negociated a contract that would give him rights to present it as a trilogy. He, of course, inspired his screenplay to his own 15 page outline written by him almost twenty years earlier.

It’s at the end of the writing of his trilogy that George Lucas revealed the name of the very first episode : The Phantom Menace. He chose this title in relation to Senator Palpatine who seemed like a good person, but who actually was the manipulative Sith Lord who turned Anakin Skywalker into the very famous Darth Vador.

With a budget of approximately 115 million dollars, this first episode grossed 924.3 million dollars worldwide, making it the histhest grossing Star Wars film, the 12te highest-grossing film of all times and the 7th highest-grossing film of all time at the US box office.

What about the Phantom Limb? We don’t actually know much about that, but medical tourism facilities can treat all kinds of issues. And you get to go on a little vacation while you’re getting healthy!