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May 4 is considered Star Wars Day. Isolation does not stop fans of the series around the world from celebrating.
A fan convention and an online fundraising campaign and series-inspired game updates are just some of the ways franchise fans celebrate isolation in 2020. May 4 is considered Star Wars Day. In 1978, franchise fans invented a pun based on the classic slogan
"May the Force Be With You"
" May the Fourth Be With You! "
In 2020, Reedpop, the organization behind this holiday, will mark the event with an online convention.
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The convention "An Online Revelry: May the 4th Be With You and Revenge of the 5th" takes place on May 4 and 5, in collaboration with the Comic Con Festival in New York. The event schedules multiple events, including live streaming of episodes of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and "Star Wars: Rebels" on Twitter, as well as question and answer sessions with screenwriters and actors associated with the franchise.
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Fans will be able to participate in general culture contests with prizes, with organizers encouraging them to use the hashtags # Maythe4th and # Revengeofthe5th.
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The events will take place on ReedPop properties' associated social media accounts, including New York Comic Con, C2E2, BookCon, Emerald City Comic Con and Florida SuperCon
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In 2020, fans have an additional reason to celebrate. The Star Wars Battlefront 2 game receives the latest updates. The latest package of options is called "The Battle on Scarif" and has already been broadcast online.
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The celebration began on Sunday with Rebelthon 2020, an online action that aims to raise funds for UNICEF and the fight against Covid-19.
The anniversary is also an opportunity for the Disney Plus platform to gather all the movies in the series and launch a documentary about the newest series dedicated to the Star Wars universe, "The Mandalorian". The second season of the story built around the little hero of the species of Master Yoda is scheduled for October.
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In 1978, fans invented a pun based on the classic "Star Wars" slogan "May the Force Be With You": "May the Fourth Be With You". Although fans in the United States initially called the expression Independence Day, July 4, the following year the date was reset to May 4, following the publication of an advertising page in The London Evening News, which contained a congratulatory message. addressed to the first British woman in office as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who won the election on May 4, 1979: “May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations! ".
At that time, the movie "Star Wars", released on May 25, 1977, had already won six Oscars, for best music, best sound mix, best visual effects, best costumes, best better decors and best fitting.
In addition, after the release of the movie "Star Wars-Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Lords", the phrase "Revenge of the 5th" appeared, which marks a holiday on May 5, dedicated to the negative characters of the franchise.
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Created from the imagination of George Lucas, the "Star Wars" franchise marked, in 1977, the birth of a new genre in commercial, popular cinema for the general public. Lucas sold Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion to Disney studios, which continued the "Star Wars" series with three new films, released in 2015, as well as other derivative productions.
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The Star Wars franchise has become a veritable cultural phenomenon, and characters such as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Darth Vader and phrases such as "May the force be with you" have entered world popular culture.
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