June 13

On this day - June 13 1942 - Harrison Ford was born 

Harrison ford is an american actor. He was born in Chicago on this day in 1942. His dad, Christopher Ford had previous to his birth been an actor and his mum, Dorothy worked as a radio actress. Harrison Ford himself became fascinated with acting when he took an drama class in his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford got his first role as an actor in 1966 in the movie "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-round". His first credited role was in "A Time for Killing" in 1967. Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter in this time to support his family, as he was not able to live of acting. In 1973 played Ford in his first George Lucas film, American Graffiti, and the relationship between the two became important for Ford's later acting carrier. Harrison Ford was originally hired to read lines for the actors auditioning for roles in the Star Wars movie, but Georg Lucas was so impressed with his reading that he offered him the role as Han Solo. He was supposedly payed US 10.000 for his first role as Han Solo and 16 million dollars for his last. With the role as "Indiana Jones" was Harrison Ford's status as an leading actor established and he went on to play in several other more or less successful movies.

May 25th

On this day - May 25th 1977 - The First Star Wars movie was released in theaters 

A New Hope (IV) was created by George Lucas and released by 20th century fox. The movie was first just titled Star Wars and it wasn't until 1981, after the second movie was released , that the first movie was titled "A New Hope". The movie was released on Wednesday May 24th in 32 theaters in the US. Neither Fox nor Lucas was expecting the film to become as popular as it did, and Star Wars was considered more of a B-track movie by Fox. The movie instantly broke all box office records and the release was expanded. The movie earned 461 million dollars in the US and 314 million dollars abroad. It held the record or the all time highest grossing film until E.T was released in 1982. It was named the movie of the year in Time Magazine in May 19977 and nominated to 10 academy awards and won 6 of those. It won for best score by John Williams.

May 21st

On this day - May 21st 1980 - The Empire Strikes back is released

The Empire Strikes back is the 2nd movie released in the series of Star Wars but its the fifth in chronological order. It was released three years after the success of the original Star Wars movie and is also set three years after the first movie. The initial reviews were mixed but as the series grew in popularity the critics agree that it is one of the greatest movies of all time. The initial filming began in Hardangerjøkulen in Norway and during the filming one of the worst winter storms in over fifty years hit. It was a good thing the opening was set in an artic environment. The Star Wars saga is one of the most recognized brands in the world and adaptations into books, comic books, novels, video games and even a radio play has followed. Disney acquired the rights to the Star Wars franchise when they bought Lucasfilm in 2012. It was then announced new Star Wars movies starting with the 2015 movie The Force Awakens.  The movie holds one of the most recognized quotes that is also often misquoted "No, I am your father".