Star Wars actors reunited

Actors Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor have teamed up with other stars of all six Star Wars movies for a new Vanity Fair photospread.

The American magazine grouped together 22 major performers in the legendary franchise, inviting cast members from the original 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope to this year's final installment Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.

Mastermind George Lucas, who directed four of the intergalactic movies, joined Ford, Fisher, Portman and McGregor as well as original Luke Skywalker star Mark Hamill, Samuel L Jackson, Liam Neeson and Hayden Christensen.

Robots R2-D2 and C3PO also joined their human co-stars for the reunion shoot.

Lucas admits the final part of the opening trilogy marks the end of an era in his career - and he now plans to stop making big budget films.

He says: "I'm going to make movies nobody wants to see. I've earned the right to fail."