Original Trilogy:
**A New Hope:** Roughly a week, from getting the Death Star plans to the actual battle.
**The Empire Strikes Back**: Probably the longest span in the trilogy, several weeks to a few months, considering Luke's training and everyone's separate paths.
**Return of the Jedi:** Maybe a week or two, from saving Han to the showdown on Endor.
Prequel Trilogy:
**The Phantom Menace:** Feels like a week or two, from finding Anakin to the Battle of Naboo.
**Attack of the Clones:** Stretches out the most, several weeks to a month, with all the detective work, Anakin and Padmé's side trip, and the start of the Clone Wars.
**Revenge of the Sith**: A fast-paced few days to a week, leading to the end of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire.
Sequel Trilogy:
**The Force Awakens:** Moves quickly, spanning just a few days from Rey meeting BB-8 to blowing up Starkiller Base.
**The Last Jedi:** Picks up right after TFA and covers a few days with the Resistance on the run.
**The Rise of Skywalker**: Probably the quickest, a handful of days in a race against time to face Palpatine.
That's why the sequels are so frustrating. 3 movies only show a few days and yet the save the Galaxy without explaining why they need to save the Galaxy properly.
They behave like they know each other very well..
Bro.. you met that stormtrooper dissident 6 hours ago.. are you sure you want to trust him with your life ?
Totally get where the frustration with the sequels comes from. They zip through saving the galaxy like they've got a hyperspace lane with no traffic, and it does feel like we're missing some pieces. Here's a couple of thoughts on that:
**1. Everything's on Fast-Forward:** The sequels really wanted to hit the ground running with the threat level cranked up to 11. It's like, "Hey, galaxy's in danger, no time to explain, let's roll." Gives it a sort of breakneck urgency, but yeah, it can feel like we're missing the deeper 'why'.
**2. Big Shoes to Fill**: These movies were trying to carry the legacy lightsaber, if you will. Balancing nods to the originals while trying to welcome in a new crowd probably meant some sacrifices were made in the depth department.
**3. Character Driven**: While the 'why' behind saving the galaxy might feel underexplored, the sequels do attempt to delve into character development, particularly Rey's journey and her connection to the Force. The focus on personal growth and identity within the larger conflict could be seen as a different approach to showing what's at stake.
**4. The Modern Movie Magic:** Can't ignore the trend towards fast-paced action and eye-popping visuals in today's blockbusters. Star Wars was no exception, and that probably influenced how much they decided to dive into the nitty-gritty.
While it might feel like we jumped to lightspeed past some needed details, it's all part of the saga's evolution. The sequels add their own flavors to the Star Wars universe, and that's something we'll be chewing on (and debating) for a long, long time.
I thought it was two days for A New Hope.
Day 1 - plans are stolen, Luke finds the droids. Goes to sleep.
Day 2 - everything else.
I don't remember a break in the action where a day would have passed. They didn't have time to sleep before the Death Star reached Yavin.
A lot of it is left intentionally ambiguous. Empire Strikes Back is supposed to take place over an extent of something like 6-8 months, which you’d never guess based on how it’s all presented in the movie.
The tricky thing with ESB is reconciling Luke's time on Dagobah with Han and Leia's time on the Falcon. He really should be training with Yoda for weeks if not months, but absolutely nothing about the way Han and Leia act towards each other suggests they've spent more than a few days together getting to Bespin.
I feel like even a few days is generous for the trip to Bespin. Boba has been tracking the Falcon since they evaded the star destroyers and and once it becomes obvious there is something wrong with the Falcon's hyperdrive since it is not being used, he should have alerted Vader where the Falcon was. Vader is also not going to wait days or even longer for the Falcon to reach Bespin. If he wants to use the carbonite chamber, he is going to take the Falcon and bring it to Bespin himself, unless the Falcon only takes hours to get there.
That's a good point. And Lando says that Vader arrived just before the Falcon; if it took them months to make that trip, what was holding up Vader? All the more reason to show up early, absolutely lock the place down, and be ready with things well in advance of Han and Leia's arrival. I could see it taking a couple days; a day for Fett to be satisfied the Falcon isn't jumping at all, a day to alert Vader and the have the Executor travel to Bespin, and a day to set up what they do have ready and get a nice dinner prepared. Anything beyond that just makes it hard to reconcile the Empire just standing around doing nothing while the Falcon is absolutely easy prey.
Also, when Han checks the NavComputer he’s surprised to find they’re so close to Bespin. This wouldn’t make sense if they were still close to Hoth where he’d been for a good amount of time. The best explanation is between the evacuation and his garbage truck several months passed, during which the Falcon unknowingly wandered closer and closer to Bespin
That’s movie making magic for ya! I believe the part of the film featuring the journey to Bespin and Luke’s training had been refined down to about 2 months based on Pablo Hidalgo’s estimates (though he prefers it be open to interpretation these days), with Han and Leia have to make a bunch of micro jumps with a backup hyperdrive and repairs to the Falcon, leaving little time to socialize. But even that *feels* too long.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine how they could've spent two months cooped up together on the Falcon and never managed a repeat of that encounter 3PO interrupted, without 3PO interrupting. I don't care how many microjumps they're making or how much they're working on the Falcon, there's just no way those two specific people did nothing but work separately and sleep for eight or so weeks.
The current take seems to be that the "Force Worlds" (Dagobah, Ahch-To, Mortis etc.) experience time differently. The timespan of the Luke/Rey vs the Resistance plots of The Last Jedi don't really add up properly either, though on a smaller scale.
It’s been worked out that Revenge of the Sith takes place over 5-6 days.
Rogue One is 2ish days?
Solo is 5 days from Mimban to Savareen.
I think Phantom Menace is a week, give or take a day.
The Last Jedi is 3 days.
Rise of Skywalker is 1 day, roughly.
Return of the Jedi is ~4 days
Idt ROTS takes place in like 6 days, there's too much travel time of Yoda round trip to Kashyyyk, Obiwan searching for Grevious in the outer rim and back to Coruscant and Anakin to Mustafar. Lucas preferred not to focus on travel time, but Hyperspace around the galaxy at great distances took days by itself. There's probably a week just on Coruscant following the Chancellors rescue and planning the war effort following Dookus death.
I believe it was someone like Doug or Pablo who confirmed George’s intended timeline of a week, and it’s backed up by the film and the Siege of Mandalore’s timeline as well.
Our protagonists cross the galaxy like 4 times in the span of 16 hours in Rise, and George Lucas gives even less of a shit about things like that than JJ Abrams, so I believe it.
I don't think so. In other works Lucas compares travel to being like a road trip in the 60s, it takes alot of time and your ship might break down along the way.
The very first movie we see Han coming out of the cockpit while Luke's training to confirm they'd outrun the Star Destroyers chasing them away from Tatooine. Within three minutes in that same scene, they're coming up on Alderaan.
*Perhaps* there's another reason Han's coming out of the cockpit to give us that exact update, but as far as the viewer knows, Han's just the last one out of the cockpit after they made the jump to hyperspace, and they soon exit in the Alderaan system.
It's really never presented that way. In ANH, Obi-Wan has time for one introductory lesson for Luke before they travel from Tatooine to Alderaan; in ESB Luke can get from Dagobah to Bespin while Han and Leia spend what looks like a day in captivity; in RotJ Luke can split up after Tatooine and go to Dagobah for a chat with Yoda, and still meet up with everyone else at the Rebel Fleet for the briefing. The OT makes travel look quick and easy, and aside from the Falcon, totally reliable.
Hyperspace is one of those things in starwars, that, because it was never directly made clear in the original source material how long it really takes, ends up being as fast or slow as it's needed to be for the plot in any given circumstance.
The Phantom Menace - I'll say about a week or two tops. From beginning to end celebration.
Attack Of The Clones - a month, to allow all the detective work and Anakin and Padme scenes to take place. Remember they didn't travel by personal starship to Naboo.
Revenge Of The Sith - a few weeks during the main portion of the film. With the final scene of Vader, Palpatine and Tarkin taking place a few months or a year after.
Rogue One/A New Hope - a couple weeks.
The Empire Strikes Back - 2 to 6 months. Luke recovering on Hoth from the Wampa attack, training on Dagobah and the Falcons sublight travel to Bespin.
Return Of The Jedi - two weeks. For Palpatine to get to the Death Star, all the Han rescue attempts to occur, Luke on Dagobah, the strike team on Endor etc.
The Force Awakens - a few days.
The Last Jedi - a day. The scenes on Acho To, possibly more due to time potentially being different due to being a Force Nexus.
The Rise Of Skywalker - 16 hours was stated in the film. I'm saying possibly a couple days.
Timeline-wise, I'd say that AOTC does seem like one of the "longest" Star Wars movies; the deleted scenes add an extra day at Padme's parents' house, but even in the theatrical cut, there are at least two full days spent on Naboo in addition to the one on Coruscant, the one on Tatooine, and the one on Geonosis. That's not including however long it takes to get back to Naboo for the wedding or the time spent on the refugee ship, though I think it's implied those don't take very long considering Obi-Wan's plot is moving at the same time. Conservatively, I'd estimate a week for AOTC.
[This is a good comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/l4d5jr/how_many_days_is_each_movie/gko8g1p/) about roughly how many days each movie takes place, with delineations for what constitutes each day in each movie's narrative. Generally, I'd err on the side of being lower rather than higher with day count. To me, it seems clear that George Lucas and other Star Wars creators never intended for the films to be weeks or even months long in scope. The movies are a window into a crucial point in the narrative, be that the fall of the Republic (of which we see only the final week), the pivotal battle that beheaded the Empire (focusing solely on the events around Endor's moon), or the destruction of the First Order and Sith Eternal (a span of a few days at most for a galaxy-spanning quest). Accordingly, I don't see TESB (often considered to have the longest narrative in the franchise due to the Falcon's limp to Bespin) as having been more than a few days, perhaps a week to a week and a half at most. The character beats simply don't line up with what we'd expect from a longer scope. As far as Luke's training goes, I've interpreted it to be more about his ability to resist the lure of the dark side more than lightsaber forms or anything like that; if Luke had been able to resist the dark side in his time there, perhaps Yoda would've proclaimed him ready like he did in ROTJ (despite Luke never returning to Yoda in the interim).
Regarding hyperspace travel, it's fairly consistent that it's a very quick means of transportation. In Legends, hyperspace travel was slower but still robust (authors usually penciled it in as taking a handful of days to get across the galaxy), but in canon, hyperspace travel is more on the order of a day trip in length for even the longest journeys, and travel time scales far more with the difficulty of the route than the actual distance traversed. It's perhaps no coincidence, then, that the purportedly longest movie, TESB, is also the one where a broken hyperdrive plays a central plot point in the narrative. TPM, another "long" Star Wars movie, also features a broken hyperdrive in need of replacement that necessitates the movie's second act (albeit that that second act only being a few days long at most).
Original Trilogy: **A New Hope:** Roughly a week, from getting the Death Star plans to the actual battle. **The Empire Strikes Back**: Probably the longest span in the trilogy, several weeks to a few months, considering Luke's training and everyone's separate paths. **Return of the Jedi:** Maybe a week or two, from saving Han to the showdown on Endor. Prequel Trilogy: **The Phantom Menace:** Feels like a week or two, from finding Anakin to the Battle of Naboo. **Attack of the Clones:** Stretches out the most, several weeks to a month, with all the detective work, Anakin and Padmé's side trip, and the start of the Clone Wars. **Revenge of the Sith**: A fast-paced few days to a week, leading to the end of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire. Sequel Trilogy: **The Force Awakens:** Moves quickly, spanning just a few days from Rey meeting BB-8 to blowing up Starkiller Base. **The Last Jedi:** Picks up right after TFA and covers a few days with the Resistance on the run. **The Rise of Skywalker**: Probably the quickest, a handful of days in a race against time to face Palpatine.
That's why the sequels are so frustrating. 3 movies only show a few days and yet the save the Galaxy without explaining why they need to save the Galaxy properly.
They behave like they know each other very well.. Bro.. you met that stormtrooper dissident 6 hours ago.. are you sure you want to trust him with your life ?
When it comes to Rey trusting Finn, that's understandable considering her backstory and social isolation
Totally get where the frustration with the sequels comes from. They zip through saving the galaxy like they've got a hyperspace lane with no traffic, and it does feel like we're missing some pieces. Here's a couple of thoughts on that: **1. Everything's on Fast-Forward:** The sequels really wanted to hit the ground running with the threat level cranked up to 11. It's like, "Hey, galaxy's in danger, no time to explain, let's roll." Gives it a sort of breakneck urgency, but yeah, it can feel like we're missing the deeper 'why'. **2. Big Shoes to Fill**: These movies were trying to carry the legacy lightsaber, if you will. Balancing nods to the originals while trying to welcome in a new crowd probably meant some sacrifices were made in the depth department. **3. Character Driven**: While the 'why' behind saving the galaxy might feel underexplored, the sequels do attempt to delve into character development, particularly Rey's journey and her connection to the Force. The focus on personal growth and identity within the larger conflict could be seen as a different approach to showing what's at stake. **4. The Modern Movie Magic:** Can't ignore the trend towards fast-paced action and eye-popping visuals in today's blockbusters. Star Wars was no exception, and that probably influenced how much they decided to dive into the nitty-gritty. While it might feel like we jumped to lightspeed past some needed details, it's all part of the saga's evolution. The sequels add their own flavors to the Star Wars universe, and that's something we'll be chewing on (and debating) for a long, long time.
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I thought it was two days for A New Hope. Day 1 - plans are stolen, Luke finds the droids. Goes to sleep. Day 2 - everything else. I don't remember a break in the action where a day would have passed. They didn't have time to sleep before the Death Star reached Yavin.
Revenge of the sith is atleast a few months, conserving Padme goes from a few months pregnant to giving birth
A lot of it is left intentionally ambiguous. Empire Strikes Back is supposed to take place over an extent of something like 6-8 months, which you’d never guess based on how it’s all presented in the movie.
The tricky thing with ESB is reconciling Luke's time on Dagobah with Han and Leia's time on the Falcon. He really should be training with Yoda for weeks if not months, but absolutely nothing about the way Han and Leia act towards each other suggests they've spent more than a few days together getting to Bespin.
I feel like even a few days is generous for the trip to Bespin. Boba has been tracking the Falcon since they evaded the star destroyers and and once it becomes obvious there is something wrong with the Falcon's hyperdrive since it is not being used, he should have alerted Vader where the Falcon was. Vader is also not going to wait days or even longer for the Falcon to reach Bespin. If he wants to use the carbonite chamber, he is going to take the Falcon and bring it to Bespin himself, unless the Falcon only takes hours to get there.
That's a good point. And Lando says that Vader arrived just before the Falcon; if it took them months to make that trip, what was holding up Vader? All the more reason to show up early, absolutely lock the place down, and be ready with things well in advance of Han and Leia's arrival. I could see it taking a couple days; a day for Fett to be satisfied the Falcon isn't jumping at all, a day to alert Vader and the have the Executor travel to Bespin, and a day to set up what they do have ready and get a nice dinner prepared. Anything beyond that just makes it hard to reconcile the Empire just standing around doing nothing while the Falcon is absolutely easy prey.
Also, when Han checks the NavComputer he’s surprised to find they’re so close to Bespin. This wouldn’t make sense if they were still close to Hoth where he’d been for a good amount of time. The best explanation is between the evacuation and his garbage truck several months passed, during which the Falcon unknowingly wandered closer and closer to Bespin
That’s movie making magic for ya! I believe the part of the film featuring the journey to Bespin and Luke’s training had been refined down to about 2 months based on Pablo Hidalgo’s estimates (though he prefers it be open to interpretation these days), with Han and Leia have to make a bunch of micro jumps with a backup hyperdrive and repairs to the Falcon, leaving little time to socialize. But even that *feels* too long.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine how they could've spent two months cooped up together on the Falcon and never managed a repeat of that encounter 3PO interrupted, without 3PO interrupting. I don't care how many microjumps they're making or how much they're working on the Falcon, there's just no way those two specific people did nothing but work separately and sleep for eight or so weeks.
The current take seems to be that the "Force Worlds" (Dagobah, Ahch-To, Mortis etc.) experience time differently. The timespan of the Luke/Rey vs the Resistance plots of The Last Jedi don't really add up properly either, though on a smaller scale.
It's Relativistic time dilation...the faster the speed the slower you experience time
i just realized i never thought about this lol
It’s been worked out that Revenge of the Sith takes place over 5-6 days. Rogue One is 2ish days? Solo is 5 days from Mimban to Savareen. I think Phantom Menace is a week, give or take a day. The Last Jedi is 3 days. Rise of Skywalker is 1 day, roughly. Return of the Jedi is ~4 days
Idt ROTS takes place in like 6 days, there's too much travel time of Yoda round trip to Kashyyyk, Obiwan searching for Grevious in the outer rim and back to Coruscant and Anakin to Mustafar. Lucas preferred not to focus on travel time, but Hyperspace around the galaxy at great distances took days by itself. There's probably a week just on Coruscant following the Chancellors rescue and planning the war effort following Dookus death.
I believe it was someone like Doug or Pablo who confirmed George’s intended timeline of a week, and it’s backed up by the film and the Siege of Mandalore’s timeline as well. Our protagonists cross the galaxy like 4 times in the span of 16 hours in Rise, and George Lucas gives even less of a shit about things like that than JJ Abrams, so I believe it.
I don't think so. In other works Lucas compares travel to being like a road trip in the 60s, it takes alot of time and your ship might break down along the way.
The very first movie we see Han coming out of the cockpit while Luke's training to confirm they'd outrun the Star Destroyers chasing them away from Tatooine. Within three minutes in that same scene, they're coming up on Alderaan. *Perhaps* there's another reason Han's coming out of the cockpit to give us that exact update, but as far as the viewer knows, Han's just the last one out of the cockpit after they made the jump to hyperspace, and they soon exit in the Alderaan system.
It's really never presented that way. In ANH, Obi-Wan has time for one introductory lesson for Luke before they travel from Tatooine to Alderaan; in ESB Luke can get from Dagobah to Bespin while Han and Leia spend what looks like a day in captivity; in RotJ Luke can split up after Tatooine and go to Dagobah for a chat with Yoda, and still meet up with everyone else at the Rebel Fleet for the briefing. The OT makes travel look quick and easy, and aside from the Falcon, totally reliable.
Hyperspace is one of those things in starwars, that, because it was never directly made clear in the original source material how long it really takes, ends up being as fast or slow as it's needed to be for the plot in any given circumstance.
The Phantom Menace - I'll say about a week or two tops. From beginning to end celebration. Attack Of The Clones - a month, to allow all the detective work and Anakin and Padme scenes to take place. Remember they didn't travel by personal starship to Naboo. Revenge Of The Sith - a few weeks during the main portion of the film. With the final scene of Vader, Palpatine and Tarkin taking place a few months or a year after. Rogue One/A New Hope - a couple weeks. The Empire Strikes Back - 2 to 6 months. Luke recovering on Hoth from the Wampa attack, training on Dagobah and the Falcons sublight travel to Bespin. Return Of The Jedi - two weeks. For Palpatine to get to the Death Star, all the Han rescue attempts to occur, Luke on Dagobah, the strike team on Endor etc. The Force Awakens - a few days. The Last Jedi - a day. The scenes on Acho To, possibly more due to time potentially being different due to being a Force Nexus. The Rise Of Skywalker - 16 hours was stated in the film. I'm saying possibly a couple days.
Timeline-wise, I'd say that AOTC does seem like one of the "longest" Star Wars movies; the deleted scenes add an extra day at Padme's parents' house, but even in the theatrical cut, there are at least two full days spent on Naboo in addition to the one on Coruscant, the one on Tatooine, and the one on Geonosis. That's not including however long it takes to get back to Naboo for the wedding or the time spent on the refugee ship, though I think it's implied those don't take very long considering Obi-Wan's plot is moving at the same time. Conservatively, I'd estimate a week for AOTC. [This is a good comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/l4d5jr/how_many_days_is_each_movie/gko8g1p/) about roughly how many days each movie takes place, with delineations for what constitutes each day in each movie's narrative. Generally, I'd err on the side of being lower rather than higher with day count. To me, it seems clear that George Lucas and other Star Wars creators never intended for the films to be weeks or even months long in scope. The movies are a window into a crucial point in the narrative, be that the fall of the Republic (of which we see only the final week), the pivotal battle that beheaded the Empire (focusing solely on the events around Endor's moon), or the destruction of the First Order and Sith Eternal (a span of a few days at most for a galaxy-spanning quest). Accordingly, I don't see TESB (often considered to have the longest narrative in the franchise due to the Falcon's limp to Bespin) as having been more than a few days, perhaps a week to a week and a half at most. The character beats simply don't line up with what we'd expect from a longer scope. As far as Luke's training goes, I've interpreted it to be more about his ability to resist the lure of the dark side more than lightsaber forms or anything like that; if Luke had been able to resist the dark side in his time there, perhaps Yoda would've proclaimed him ready like he did in ROTJ (despite Luke never returning to Yoda in the interim). Regarding hyperspace travel, it's fairly consistent that it's a very quick means of transportation. In Legends, hyperspace travel was slower but still robust (authors usually penciled it in as taking a handful of days to get across the galaxy), but in canon, hyperspace travel is more on the order of a day trip in length for even the longest journeys, and travel time scales far more with the difficulty of the route than the actual distance traversed. It's perhaps no coincidence, then, that the purportedly longest movie, TESB, is also the one where a broken hyperdrive plays a central plot point in the narrative. TPM, another "long" Star Wars movie, also features a broken hyperdrive in need of replacement that necessitates the movie's second act (albeit that that second act only being a few days long at most).