Celebrate Star Wars Day: May the Fourth be with you May 4, 2021 8:53 AM CNN Updated: American actors Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope written, directed and produced by Georges Lucas. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) (CNN) — “No, I am your father.” “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” “Do or do not. There is no try.” Oh, and then there’s this: “May the Force be with you.” Born in 1977, the “Star Wars” series of live-action films — 11 of them to date — has long been enshrined in popular culture. Given their immense popularity, it’s hard to believe, as Ronald Brownstein wrote in his recent book, “Rock Me on the Water: 1974 – the Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics,” that it took several years for George Lucas to pull together the funding and studio support for “a space epic inspired by the Saturday morning movie serials of his youth.”