Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is a movie directed by George Lucas. It was the fourth film released Star Wars and the first in terms of internal chronology of the saga. The film was released on May 19, 1999, nearly 16 years after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Despite the criticism, is one of the highest grossing movies in film history, to raise worldwide $ 925.5 million. 

 

The story recounts the events of the Battle of Naboo, and shows like Senator Palpatine begins his vast conspiracy to become emperor of the galaxy. In it we see a young Anakin Skywalker, a nine year old, free of all traces of the Dark Side, living with his mother as a slave on Tatooine. There he meets a Jedi Master called Qui-Gon Jinn, who escaped with the Queen of Naboo, note the small Skywalker a powerful disturbance in the Force. 

 

Qui-Gon Jinn requests authorization Jedi Council to train Anakin as a Jedi. Initially, the Council opposes because Anakin was too old to start. Despite this opposition, Qui Gon decides which anyway will train Anakin, but the matter was postponed by the appearance of a Sith, Darth Maun (apprentice to Darth Sidious), who in a fight in the palace of Naboo kills Qui-Gon, and in turn is defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi, the apprentice of Qui-Gon, who is appointed as a Jedi Knight and Jedi Council decides to challenge and train Anakin Skywalker.