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Pat Roach auditioned for the role of Darth Vader.
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On opening weekend in 1977, the movie earned $1.554 million on fewer than forty screens. In 1997, it [...]
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Chewbacca was modelled after George Lucas' dog, Indiana.
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This movie is ranked #2 on the AFI's top 10 science fiction movies.
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Malcolm Tierney's (Lieutenant Shann Childsen's) voice was dubbed over.
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Renowned film commentator Mark Cousins outlines the basic plot of 'Star Wars' in his 'The Story of F [...]
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When Obi-Wan is giving a short history of the Jedi Order and Luke's father in his house on Tatooine, [...]
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Terri Nunn of the band Berlin was in the running for the role of Princess Leia and had readings with [...]
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Audio of Alec Guinness from this movie was excised and edited for use in Star Wars - Il risveglio de [...]
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During production, George Lucas and Gilbert Taylor, whom Gary Kurtz called "old school" and "crotche [...]
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The name Chewbacca is from Cobaka, Russian for dog.
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George Lucas only had access to two full-sized ships for the giant hangar scene. The crew had to kee [...]
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While Carrie Fisher disliked her outfit for covering up her womanly curves, a voluptuous, seductive [...]
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A total of thirty sets consisting of planets, starships, caves, control rooms, cantinas, and the Dea [...]
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The pulsating engine sound of the Star Destroyer is a manipulated recording of a broken air conditio [...]
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There is only one scene in the entire three-episode arc (IV-V-VI) where all eight of the main charac [...]
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Gilbert Taylor found filming in Elstree Studios highly problematic. The sets John Barry made "were l [...]
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Mark Hamill is a master impressionist; he was even before he was established as an actor. His impres [...]
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Alec Guinness was one of the few cast members who believed that the film would be successful; he neg [...]
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The sound of Vader's Force-choke in the conference room was achieved by putting a bunch of walnut sh [...]
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Mel Blanc auditioned for the voice of C-3PO.
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The second movie to gross more than $100 million at the U.S. box-office. The first was Lo squalo (19 [...]
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Of all of the movies in which Luke Skywalker appears as an adult, this is the only one in which his [...]
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The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Visual Effects.
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Peter Mayhew worked as an orderly in a Yorkshire hospital prior to being cast in the movie. He won h [...]
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George Lucas asked costume designer John Mollo to create simple, non-descript costumes without any b [...]
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A fierce sandstorm destroyed several of the Tatooine sets in the desert outside Tozeur, Tunisia. Fil [...]
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Luke's nickname at the beginning, when he's hanging out with Biggs Darklighter and their friends in [...]
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Sir Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing appeared in productions of Hamlet. One of Guinness' first roles, [...]
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Lucasfilm hired Charles Lippincott as marketing director for this movie. As Twentieth Century Fox ga [...]
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Mark Hamill stated the blue milk was long-life shelf milk with "additives they put blue food colouri [...]
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Throughout production, George Lucas had several disputes with his director of photography, veteran B [...]
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Princess Leia is held in cell 2187. One of George Lucas' early influences was a National Film Board [...]
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George Lucas started writing the screenplay in 1974.
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Former F1 world champion, Nigel Mansell, is a huge fan of Star Wars, which is why his car always car [...]
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Luke doesn't appear until seventeen minutes into the movie in the Special Edition. In the original c [...]
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A mutual friend of Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Garrick Hagon (Biggs) during filming was Will Knightl [...]
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George Lucas pitched the movie to Universal Pictures, United Artists, and Disney. They all passed on [...]
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Unlike the other movies in the franchise, this movie features Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing) as t [...]
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George Lucas was so sure this movie would flop that instead of attending the premiere, he went on va [...]
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George Lucas used "light speed" or "hyperspace" simply as a convention to get from point A to point [...]
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C-3PO is the first character to speak in the Star Wars film franchise. He appears in every film of t [...]
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Bolaji Badejo was interested in playing Chewbacca. He ended up appearing in Alien (1979) as the Xeno [...]
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When the fanfare from the movie arose, several illustrations and comic adaptations depicted the y-wi [...]
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Eve Plumb auditioned for the role of Princess Leia Organa.
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The movie opened in May 1977, and by November had dethroned Lo squalo (1975) as the all-time domesti [...]
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First of eighteen consecutive movies with Dolby-encoded soundtracks to win Academy Awards for Best A [...]
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This movie was initially rated for adult audiences in Germany. This was largely due to depictions an [...]
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The cantina creature, later to be known as "Dice Ibegon", was really nothing more than a hand puppet [...]
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The John Williams Academy Award-winning score was in part a take off on the 1932 jazz song, "My Woma [...]
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Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, old film school friends of George Lucas, did uncredited re-writes on [...]
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William Hootkins, who played Jek Porkins (Red Six), was concerned about his close proximity to a cer [...]
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George Lucas has the helmet of a Stormtrooper and an R2-D2 in his office.
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George Lucas revealed about Peter Mayhew's role of Chewbacca, "No matter how hard he tried, he wasn' [...]
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Harrison Ford found the dialogue to be very difficult, later saying, "You can type this shit, but yo [...]
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Ben Burtt created the sound of Darth Vader's breathing by placing a small microphone in the second s [...]
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Darth Vader's line, "Don't act so surprised your highness" is very often quoted by Mike Johansen wit [...]
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George Lucas's original script encompassed the entire trilogy and ended up being 200 pages long. He [...]
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Body count: 2,002,795,192. That's if you count the populations of Alderaan and the Death Star combin [...]
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The scene where Han says the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs is said to be a fac [...]
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In a 2016 memoir, Carrie Fisher revealed that over the course of the movie's filming, she had an aff [...]
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Both of the main droid characters were inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame, R2-D2 in 2003 (inaugura [...]
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Han Solo's blaster was manufactured from a Mauser C96 ("Broomhandle") pistol, a late nineteenth cent [...]
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Kenny Baker later confessed that he thought this movie would be a failure. Harrison Ford found it st [...]
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Around 40 years later, by 2019, after various corporate takeovers, The Walt Disney Company would con [...]
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George Lucas planned to score this movie with existing classical music like Stanley Kubrick had done [...]
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Contains a plot device used in Forza 10 da Navarone (1978) by Harrison Ford (here as Han Solo, in th [...]
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In the deleted footage from the movie we see Luke and Biggs hanging out with their friends at a cant [...]
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Carrie Fisher spent two days shooting her hologram footage because the first day's footage was shot [...]
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David Prowse was heard doing the voice of Vader in the rough cut of Star Wars, as well as the outtak [...]
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Although the shot was redone for the Special Edition, the building originally seen in the background [...]
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In the novelization of the movie, the book begins with a short prologue, which tells the story of th [...]
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The Jawas filmed on-location in Tunisia were played by Jack Purvis, some local extras, and the daugh [...]
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The skeleton that C-3PO passes belongs to a Tatooine creature called a Greater Krayt Dragon. This ar [...]
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There are twenty-eight optical wipes in the original version of the movie. The source for this is th [...]
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George Lucas gave the starfighter the name "TIE" simply because he thought that they looked like bow [...]
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According to sound designer Ben Burtt, the buzzing sound heard when Luke activates the droid calling [...]
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The 1984 CBS broadcast of this movie was introduced by Mark Hamill.
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Alan Dean Foster ghostwrote a novelization of the movie, based on an early draft of the screenplay, [...]
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Kenny Baker has said that often when the cast and crew broke for lunch, they would forget he was in [...]
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While reading for this movie, Mark Hamill found the dialogue to be extremely odd because of its univ [...]
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The movie's line "May the Force be with you" was voted as the #22 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" [...]
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During the scene on the Death Star right after Ben leaves to shut down the tractor beam, Chewbacca b [...]
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In early drafts of the script, R2-D2 could speak standard English, and he had a rather foul vocabula [...]
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The second science fiction movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, after Arancia mec [...]
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For the Special Edition, in the Cantina, the close-up shot of the wolfman was removed. He was replac [...]
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The first movie in the franchise to be given the "U" rating in the United Kingdom. L'Impero colpisce [...]
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According to Harrison Ford, during the making of the movie, he and Mark Hamill would usually fool ar [...]
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The original title George Lucas intended on was "The Adventures Of Starkiller Episode 1: The Star Wa [...]
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Alexander Courage orchestrated the score. Courage was best known for scoring another space adventure [...]
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Most of the planets, moons, et cetera seen in the movies were just balls that were painted. However, [...]
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The first movie to make over $300 million domestic box office. It was also the first movie to cross [...]
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Men in Black 3 (2012) was released 35 years to the day (same month & day) as this film.
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Robert Englund auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker, but was turned down. He then suggested to [...]
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Peter Mayhew and David Prowse are the two tallest out of the entire cast and crew. Mayhew at 7'3" an [...]
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The "TIE" in "TIE Fighter" is an acronym, standing for "Twin Ion Engines." Modelmaker Joe Johnston c [...]
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Luke tells Obi-Wan he won't be coming back to Tatooine. Ironically, Luke does return to Tatooine in [...]
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The rescue of Princess Leia, and Obi-Wan Kenobi's duel with Darth Vader, were originally intended to [...]
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George Lucas gave an interview to Empire magazine once stating that the Zodiac murders captured his [...]
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In 2008, a survey of approximately 2,000 movie fans found the lightsaber to be the most popular weap [...]
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Mark Hamill kept Luke Skywalker's boots. When this film was re-released in theaters in 1997, his son [...]
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From the script stage, George Lucas wanted the movie to open with "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the cr [...]
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When first released in 1977, this movie was simply titled "Star Wars", as it was intended to be a st [...]
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Inspired by pirate films and romantic films of the 1940s, George Lucas was infatuated with the roman [...]
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Han Solo is the only main human character who doesn't appear on the original movie poster of this fi [...]
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Portions of the sound effects for the Millennium Falcon's engines were recorded at an air show at th [...]
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The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.
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Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are of Swedish and Jewish ancestry, respectively. In the prequels, the [...]
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Ranked #2 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "sci-fi" in Ju [...]
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George Lucas hired Gilbert Taylor as cinematographer, based on his work on Il dottor Stranamore - Ov [...]
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When this movie was re-released in theaters after having become so successful, the Daffy Duck cartoo [...]
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The original crawl was shot with a camera moving over large letters on the floor, and it took three [...]
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Prior to the release of this movie, the greatest profit Twentieth Century Fox had ever made in one y [...]
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George Lucas came up with the name R2-D2 during post-production of American Graffiti (1973). One of [...]
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During the time George Lucas looked at shooting this in the UK, some film studio space at Pinewood S [...]
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Richard LeParmentier (General Motti, who is force-choked by Darth Vader) has stated that he is pleas [...]
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In an earlier version of the script, the Millennium Falcon does not land on the Death Star, but at a [...]
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In its May 30, 1977 issue, Time Magazine voted this movie "The Year's Best Movie". The franchise wou [...]
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Various behind the scenes documentaries of the shoot at Elstree Studios, before the final Audio Post [...]
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Meco's Disco version of the theme song is the biggest selling instrumental single of all time.
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Although not identified in the movie, the rebel officer strangled by Darth Vader is supposed to be C [...]
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Angus MacInnes (Gold Leader) found his part very frustrating to play. Before filming his cockpit sce [...]
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During the Battle of Yavin, David Prowse's eyes can be seen through the Darth Vader mask. Although u [...]
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Sir Alec Guinness wore a toupee for all of his scenes as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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The scene between Luke and Obi-Wan in Obi-Wan's house was originally written and edited to have the [...]
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The only film where Leia interacts with Vader. While they do share scenes in L'Impero colpisce ancor [...]
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Harrison Ford was paid $1,000 a week for his role.
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The name "Luke" derives from the Greek word for "light", which fits into the movie's allegorical the [...]
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When the Stormtroopers enter the room where C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding, one of the actors accidental [...]
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David Prowse was offered the role of Chewbacca, but opted to play Darth Vader believing that movie a [...]
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Robert Clarke: The white-mustached Admiral in the Death Star conference room was later given the nam [...]
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The accounts on how Alec Guinness regarded the movie and his work on it vary greatly. He frequently [...]
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The shoot-out between Han Solo and Greedo inside the Cantina was the subject for a lot of controvers [...]
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A number of B-grade sci-fi movies were released within a year of Star Wars, hoping to cash in on the [...]
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While a guest on the National Public Radio quiz show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" in 2009, Carrie Fishe [...]
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During a holiday break for Christmas in 1976, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher spent a few days in New [...]
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Peter Cushing completed his role in a matter of a few days (May 8-12). Shooting lasted from March to [...]
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In order to illustrate the look he wanted for the Mos Eisley scenes, George Lucas screened for his c [...]
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George Lucas called Mark Hamill "kid" onscreen and off.
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Peter Cushing found the boots that came with his costume extremely uncomfortable to wear because the [...]
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Han Solo's line "Watch your mouth, kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home!" is in the song [...]
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Mark Hamill revealed the line about his character going to Tosche Station, he stated: "You know, I g [...]
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After Luke (Mark Hamill) disembarks from his X-Wing after the destruction of the Death Star, is was [...]
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According to Roger Christian, the Millennium Falcon set was the most difficult item to build. Christ [...]
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Some fans took offense to the fact that Chewbacca did not receive a medal in the closing scene. MTV [...]
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All of the dialogue by Shelagh Fraser (Aunt Beru) was dubbed.
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George Lucas explains that Han Solo says he made the Kessel Run in units of parsecs (which is distan [...]
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Over 60% of this movie was shot with a film stock that was so prone to fading, it was discontinued i [...]
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On the first day of filming in the deserts of Tunisia, the country experienced its first major rains [...]
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George Lucas: [1138] On the Death Star, when Han, Chewbacca, and Luke arrive at the detention cell w [...]
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Joe Maddalena of Profiles in History acquired the Panavision camera that filmed this movie from Carr [...]
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Prior to the release, George Lucas showed an early rough cut to a group of his movie director friend [...]
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The Millennium Falcon was originally modelled after a hamburger with an olive next to it. Because th [...]
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The first movie to be dubbed into Navajo. Joseph Campbell, whose writings on mythology inspired Geor [...]
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George Lucas enjoyed the Twentieth Century Fox fanfare so much that he insisted for it to be used on [...]
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The briefing of the pilots and the final dogfights at the Death Star were inspired by many World War [...]
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An early version featured a cast made entirely of robots.
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Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher were all taken aback by George Lucas' decided lack of [...]
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Ironically, given later revelations, it is Han Solo who repeatedly refers to Princess Leia as "siste [...]
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Twentieth Century Fox was so sure this movie was going to be a disaster that they almost sold off th [...]
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Not only do Leia and Obi-Wan not meet in this movie, they do not meet at any point in the original t [...]
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In 1998, this movie was ranked #15 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. In 2007, it moved up two places [...]
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Even though George Lucas shot some of the famously deleted scenes of Luke (Mark Hammil) and his frie [...]
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Darth Vader tells the Imperial council to not get too overconfident in the Death Star, stating "the [...]
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Wuher, the bartender from the Mos Eisley cantina, has a strong aversion to droids (which is hinted i [...]
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Luke went through several changes. George Lucas toyed with the idea of changing him into a woman, af [...]
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The following characters "have a bad feeling about this": Obi-Wan (Star Wars: Episodio I - La minacc [...]
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Two different basic designs were created for the Millennium Falcon. The rejected one became the Rebe [...]
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According to Star Wars: Rebels (2014), the Y-Wings used by Gold squadron were acquired by the resist [...]
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The krayt dragon skeleton C-3PO walks past while in the Tatooine desert was actually that of a Diplo [...]
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In the 2007 book "Death Star" by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry, which is now in the non-canon Star [...]
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The term "Moff", used to describe some Imperial characters (such as Tarkin) is used to mean a Region [...]
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Harrison Ford didn't learn his lines for the intercom conversation in the cell block so that it woul [...]
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Due to strict British working conditions adhered to on-set at Elstree Studios, filming had to finish [...]
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Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi never actually meet in this movie. The closest they get to meeting [...]
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This, Star Wars: Episodio III - La vendetta dei Sith (2005) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) [...]
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When C-3PO has an oil bath, Luke is seen playing with a model of an aircraft. It's a model of a T-16 [...]
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Darth Vader has only twelve minutes of screentime in this movie.
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The main airlock door on the Tantive IV was actually the same prop (painted white) as the trash comp [...]
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Unlike Sir Alec Guinness, who grew to regret appearing in this movie despite it revitalizing his car [...]
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George Lucas cited the Legend of King Arthur as one of his inspirations behind Star Wars.
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The Star Wars films were never released in China until 30 years later. Because of this, every Star W [...]
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At the time of his casting for the movie, Mark Hamill was under contract to co-star on La famiglia B [...]
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R2-D2's vocal patterns largely contain sound designer Ben Burtt's own voice. In trying to create the [...]
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This movie came fourth in the U.K.'s Ultimate Film list, in which movies were placed in order of how [...]
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Mules were used as the main basis for the sound that the Tusken Raiders make.
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Released two days before the opening of Space Mountain at Disneyland Park in California.
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As an executive at Twentieth Century Fox, Gareth Wigan saw an early screening of the movie. When he [...]
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When Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi meet on the Death Star, the former says when he left he was the [...]
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Sandra Peabody auditioned for the role of Princess Leia.
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There was a diecast toy made of the Imperial Star Cruiser that was advertised in EERIE Magazine. Thi [...]
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When Luke is targeting the exhaust port, because of editing, the targeting computer seems to be head [...]
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Within three weeks of release, Twentieth Century Fox's stock price doubled to a record high.
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The filming of the special effects sequences at Industrial Light & Magic's studio was interrupted at [...]
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Peter Cushing commenting on his role: "I've often wondered what a 'Grand Moff' was. It sounds like s [...]
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This movie and Il ritorno dello Jedi (1983) bookend the opening and closing of both movies. They bot [...]
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The 2019 release of this film contains minor but noticeable changes, such as adding alternate footag [...]
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The Bantha, seen being mounted by Tusken Raiders after they spot Luke Skywalker's speeder, was actua [...]
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According to Star Wars canon, Tatooine's twin suns heat the planet so much that only the polar regio [...]
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George Lucas specifically picked Twentieth Century Fox because they had made the "Planet of the Apes [...]
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The shots of a three-legged R2-D2 were achieved with a remote control rig. When R2 is standing up st [...]
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Perhaps Declan Mulholland's most famous role will be one that never was. Declan was the original Jab [...]
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Alan Ladd Jr. was very anxious when he attended the premiere in Japan, only to be met by total silen [...]
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To make the lightsaber sound, Ben Burtt mixed the humming of an old 35mm projector at the university [...]
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When Carrie Fisher first got the script, she read it with her friend Miguel Ferrer, and they both sa [...]
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Although their respective characters obviously despise each other, Carrie Fisher found Peter Cushing [...]
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According to Mark Hamill, studio executives were unhappy that Chewbacca has no clothes and attempted [...]
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The reason the scene transitions using a wipe upwards when Obi-Wan and Luke carry C-3PO to repair hi [...]
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Adjusted for inflation (2016), this movie had a budget of almost $44 million. To put that in perspec [...]
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The full name Chewbacca is only said once in this movie. Every other time, he is called just "Chewie [...]
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Alan Ladd, Jr. offered George Lucas some of the only support from the studio. He dealt with scrutiny [...]
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The background sound effects in Obi-Wan's house near the 33:00 mark are the same as used as computer [...]
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When the blasters are cocked, they have a clicking/clunking sound. This is a recording of a parking [...]
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Originally, Anthony Daniels was not meant to be the final voice of C-3PO. However, his voice was rec [...]
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Harrison Ford was originally not allowed to audition, as he had starred in American Graffiti (1973), [...]
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When Obi-Wan Kenobi is turning off the tractor beam, the set Sir Alec Guinness was on was only six f [...]
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The first draft was twice as long as the finished movie, and contained a lot of elements that were r [...]
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The day before he began filming as C-3PO, Anthony Daniels tried on his costume for the first time. W [...]
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This is the only Star Wars movie where Darth Vader's signature theme "The Imperial March" is not pla [...]
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Before it became the Tantive IV, the model used for Princess Leia's diplomatic cruiser had originall [...]
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Though the novelization of the movie is credited to George Lucas, who wrote and directed the movie, [...]
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This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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Anthony Daniels' C-3PO suit was so noisy and clanking on the set that not only was Daniels' live-rec [...]
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In earlier versions of the script, the line "There will be no escape for the Princess this time" was [...]
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The only film in the series where a character refers to the droids as "robots".
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George Lucas originally wanted Orson Welles to do Darth Vader's voice, but decided against it, feeli [...]
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(At around 54 minutes) As Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan are walking into Docking Bay 94, a cube [...]
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The American Film Institute listed Darth Vader as the third greatest movie villain in cinema history [...]
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The humorous moment when Chewbacca frightens a skittish mouse droid was thought up on-set and not sc [...]
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The line "May the Force be with you" is ranked #8 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
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Production was so laden with problems that George Lucas worked himself into poor health. At one poin [...]
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The climax was dramatically altered in post-production. The way it was originally written and edited [...]
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Twentieth Century Fox green-lit the movie, despite marketing surveys indicating little or no interes [...]
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William Katt auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker. Instead he was cast for Tommy Ross, the male [...]
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When the new Galaxy's Edge attraction at the Disneyland park in Southern California officially opene [...]
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WILHELM SCREAM: The film revived and re-popularized the "Wilhelm Scream" sound effect, first used in [...]
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The name "Stormtroopers" originated in Germany, and used to describe the Canadian expeditionary forc [...]
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The back of the X-wing has a decidedly unfinished look. It is made to look very much like an early 1 [...]
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Terri Nunn (lead singer of the band Berlin) auditioned for the part of Princess Leia Organa. Several [...]
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George Lucas had not originally intended to have Anthony Daniels for the voice of C-3PO. He only cha [...]
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Darth Vader, though it seems he's the movie's antagonist, only has a screentime of twelve minutes.
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In the original draft, Luke made a failed Death Star Trench bombing attempt before making his shot t [...]
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Alec Guinness didn't like being fawned over and he instructed the cast and crew to never address him [...]
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George Lucas waived the normal writer and director fee, and asked for a mere $175,000 plus 40% of th [...]
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After the initial release of "Episode IV: A New Hope", Lucas thought it was about "25%" of what he h [...]
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The targeting grid used for the Millennium Falcon's cannon is based on a paperweight George Lucas sa [...]
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The only film of the original trilogy in which Luke doesn't have a lightsaber duel with anyone.
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Carrie Fisher's breasts were taped down with Gaffer's tape, as her costume did not permit any linger [...]
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At one point in the scripting process, the Force was a large crystal or galactic holy grail called t [...]
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Darth Vader's Theme (The Imperial March) does not appear in the original release of this film at all [...]
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The opening "crawl" was an optical effect used by Cecil B. DeMille in two of his films produced fort [...]
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Included among "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.
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Mark Hamill revealed that, while filming the first scene of Luke, Han and Leia after their escape fr [...]
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Jodie Foster said that she was being considered for the role of Princess Leia, but she was already w [...]
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Some unused footage shot for the movie was used in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).
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The original editor for this movie was John Jympson. Richard Chew was Lucas' first choice of the edi [...]
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The only movie, out of the first six, when one of the characters refers to the droids as "robots" on [...]
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When Luke watches the twin suns set before discovering R2-D2 escaped the farm is obviously closer to [...]
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Darth Vader was given a prototype TIE fighter for the practical reason that otherwise the audience w [...]
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In 2017, Mark Hamill admitted that he and Carrie Fisher were attracted to each other, and often made [...]
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The final thing Obi-Wan sees before deciding to sacrifice himself is Luke and Leia reunited after 19 [...]
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Several scenes were filmed of Luke with his friends on Tatooine, in an effort to introduce the main [...]
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Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) kept his job as an orderly in the hospital through the first three movies, [...]
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Stunt doubles were not used for the scene where Luke and Leia swing to safety. Carrie Fisher and Mar [...]
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George Lucas originally prepared a fourteen-page story treatment for his space opera. The major stud [...]
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When Harrison Ford visited a record store to buy an album after the movie's release, enthusiastic fa [...]
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The 2003 book, "Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography", reprints several letters that Guinness wro [...]
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A great deal of the movie's visual effects were shot by vintage 1950s VistaVision cameras, because t [...]
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George Lucas' decision to accept a lower salary on the movie in exchange for full merchandising righ [...]
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After the release of the first movie, Kermit Eller and Duwayne Dunham made several public appearance [...]
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A lot of Star Wars fans have either joked or theorized that the Sand People attacking Luke was reven [...]
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The origin of R2-D2 can be found in the "drones" Huey, Dewey, and Louie from 2002: la seconda odisse [...]
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Obi-Wan's duels with Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) explain why he didn't look fazed when they [...]
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This movie, by following the franchise in chronological order, marks the second time C-3PO stays wit [...]
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When writing the script, George Lucas had terrible trouble remembering how to spell all the odd name [...]
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Twentieth Century Fox didn't like the title "Star Wars" and wanted to rename the movie. In a 2013 "N [...]
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The name Wookiee came about as a result of an accident. When San Francisco D.J. Terence McGovern was [...]
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), which is a prequel to this movie, details how the Rebel Allianc [...]
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The "lost" beginning of this movie had Luke (after having witnessed the battle over Tatooine with hi [...]
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George Lucas wanted TIE Fighters to move by very fast in the Death Star escape sequence. His crew th [...]
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Because the script gave little direction on R2-D2's voice (often just saying "R2 responded" or "R2 b [...]
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Karen Allen, Nancy Allen, Christine Baranski, Kim Basinger, Bonnie Bedelia, Glenn Close, Geena Davis [...]
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Due to the limited budget, the American cast members and crew (including George Lucas) all decided t [...]
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As was common practice at the time, this film opened in major cities with exclusive 70mm showing at [...]
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Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca are trapped in trash compactor number 326-3827. This was Mark Hamill' [...]
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George Lucas originally wanted a budget of $13m, but the studio insisted he keep it under $10m. Afte [...]
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Kenner Toys signed on for merchandising shortly before this movie opened, prepared to produce a mode [...]
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Among the first promotional licenses granted was to Marvel Comics, who published a Star Wars comic b [...]
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Along with Beru Lars and Mon Mothma, Princess Leia is only one of three female characters to star in [...]
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Princess Leia's consular ship and Darth Vader's Imperial Star Destroyer are not actually referred to [...]
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The first sequel to Star Wars was not L'Impero colpisce ancora (1980); technically it was The Star W [...]
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Perry King screentested for the role of Han Solo. Though he lost the part to Harrison Ford for the m [...]
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This movie inspired James Cameron and Dave Campfield to be filmmakers.
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The moon Yavin IV, which acted as the rebel base in this movie, was filmed in the Mayan temples at T [...]
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In the Blockade Runner scenes at the beginning, with the shoot-out in the white hallways, only a sin [...]
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Most of the stormtroopers are left-handed. That is because of how the weapons are constructed. Their [...]
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Garrick Hagon, William Hootkins, and Shane Rimmer played U.S. soldiers in Ultimi bagliori di un crep [...]
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While the shot where the escape pod leaves Leia's ship was the first ever completed by Industrial Li [...]
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George Lucas based the character of Han Solo on his friend Francis Ford Coppola.
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In the interview clips in the When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004) special, Mark Hamill explained t [...]
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When George Lucas screened the movie for Twentieth Century Fox executives, the reaction was surprisi [...]
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