15 Things You May have Not Known About Star Wars
March 4, 2017 4:46AM
edited March 2017
1. The actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alec Guiness, thought of the Star Wars films as "fairy-tale rubbish".
2. The sound of the TIE Fighter engines is actually the sound of an elephant call mixed with the sounds of a car driving on wet pavement.
3. Denis Lawson, who played Wedge Antilles, is Ewan McGregor's uncle.
4. The starship that became the Blockade Runner seen at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was the original design for the Millennium Falcon.
5. The bounty hunter Bossk's clothing is a recycled spacesuit from Doctor Who.
6. At one point, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi was going to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" and there were actually trailers and posters produced with the original title.
7. The communicator Qui-Gon Jinn uses is actually an altered Gillete Sensor Excel women's razor.
8. While filming lightsaber fight scenes, Ewan McGregor kept getting carried away and making the sounds of the weapon himself, which had to be removed in post-production.
9. The top-down shot of a severely burned Anakin Skywalker near the end of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith has the character framed within the symbol of the Galactic Empire.
10. In The Phantom Menace, Yoda has three toes. But in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, he has four.
11. David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader (in form, not voice), is banned from attending official Star Wars conventions because George Lucas finds him annoying.
12. George Lucas was famous for using words from non-English languages to name things. Yoda means "warrior" in Sanskrit and Darth Vader is named after the Dutch word for "father".
13. The Jedi Temple on Coruscant is built over a Sith Shrine
14. Darth Maul is the only known Sith Apprentice to leave the Sith
15. Harrison Ford was payed only $10,000 in "A New Hope"
2. The sound of the TIE Fighter engines is actually the sound of an elephant call mixed with the sounds of a car driving on wet pavement.
3. Denis Lawson, who played Wedge Antilles, is Ewan McGregor's uncle.
4. The starship that became the Blockade Runner seen at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was the original design for the Millennium Falcon.
5. The bounty hunter Bossk's clothing is a recycled spacesuit from Doctor Who.
6. At one point, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi was going to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" and there were actually trailers and posters produced with the original title.
7. The communicator Qui-Gon Jinn uses is actually an altered Gillete Sensor Excel women's razor.
8. While filming lightsaber fight scenes, Ewan McGregor kept getting carried away and making the sounds of the weapon himself, which had to be removed in post-production.
9. The top-down shot of a severely burned Anakin Skywalker near the end of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith has the character framed within the symbol of the Galactic Empire.
10. In The Phantom Menace, Yoda has three toes. But in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, he has four.
11. David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader (in form, not voice), is banned from attending official Star Wars conventions because George Lucas finds him annoying.
12. George Lucas was famous for using words from non-English languages to name things. Yoda means "warrior" in Sanskrit and Darth Vader is named after the Dutch word for "father".
13. The Jedi Temple on Coruscant is built over a Sith Shrine
14. Darth Maul is the only known Sith Apprentice to leave the Sith
15. Harrison Ford was payed only $10,000 in "A New Hope"
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