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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Last updated: 3/21/2025
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
"One of the worst films ever made, ever" - Mark Kermode, BBC Radio 5live
By the late 1990s, George Lucas had made so much money from his Star Wars franchise that it seemed he would never need to work again, and could retire with his era-defining trilogy (mostly) safely intact in the affections of the global public consciousness.
Then his tax bill arrived.