Pennsylvania’s favorite ‘Star Wars’ movie is this: study

“Star Wars” is simply a franchise that spans crossed 9 main films (and counting); aggregate shows; and adjacent much books, comics and games.

But retired of each the films that are retired there, which 1 is Pennsylvania’s favorite?

In grant of “Star Wars Day” connected May 4th (get it? May the Fourth? No? Ok.), PennStakes.com decided to embark connected a travel to find the state’s favourite “Star Wars” movie.

This was done by navigating a year’s worthy of Google Trends hunt involvement for each 9 films arsenic good arsenic the “Solo” and Rogue One” spinoffs, making definite to hone successful connected location.

The archetypal ever “Star Wars” movie — “A New Hope” — was the 1 to assertion the apical spot successful Pennsylvania, with a full hunt involvement of 38 percent.

“In archetypal place, by a large margin, is the large daddy of the franchise, 1977′s archetypal ‘Star Wars,’ aboriginal renamed ‘Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope,’” the survey elaborates. “No substance what you telephone it, it’s the movie that changed the look of subject fabrication movies and peculiar effects.

“Luke (Mark Hamill), Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), Darth Vader (James Earl Jones), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and the Stormtroopers, each became known the satellite implicit from this ground-breaking, Death Star-destroying classic, written and directed by George Lucas.”

Indeed, astir 5 decades aft “A New Hope” premiered successful cinemas, “Star Wars” continues to beryllium an extraordinarily fashionable and beloved franchise. It besides continues to beryllium very lucrative, with a 2022 Investopedia article estimating its full nett worthy to beryllium astir $68 cardinal arsenic of 2021.

Coming successful 2nd was “The Empire Strikes Back” and successful third, “Revenge of the Sith.”