Star Wars Cinematic Universe

The Star Wars Cinematic Universe is a collection of films, television shows and video games all existing in one massive Star Wars Canon. It started as far back as 1977, with the first Star Wars movie. Since then 20th Century Fox has slowly built upon the canon of the Universe, finally establishing an official Cinematic Universe with the start of the Sequel Trilogy in late 2015.

Development
The Star Wars franchise had been a popular culture success since it's original debut in 1977. Lucasfilms and 20th Century Fox had followed up to it with a "Prequel trilogy" in the early 2000s, as well as Comic Books to expand the universe. There were plans from both studios to try and create more Star Wars live action content but most of it never entered production and it remained, despite it's intense popularity worldwide vastly underused.

After the success though of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fox wanted to create another shared live action universe to build upon, it was then that the plans for the Star Wars Cinematic Universe finally took off.

It was announced in October 2012 that a "Sequel Trilogy" of Star Wars films would be released starting with Episode IIV in 2015 with episode VIII and episode IX being released sometime before 2020 respectively. It was also later announced there would be spinoff films as well, taking place in the same Cinematic Universe.

Original Trilogy

 * Star Wars: A New Hope

Release Date: May 25th 1977


 * Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Release Date: May 21st 1980


 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Release Date: May 25th 1983

Prequel Trilogy

 * Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Release Date: May 19th 1999


 * Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Release Date: May 16th 2002


 * Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Release Date: May 19th 2005

Sequel Trilogy

 * Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Release Date: December 18th 2015