501 awesome facts about Star Wars

501 superior Star Wars info and trivia and different gems

There’s been 11 Star Wars motion pictures over 40 years and there is been quite a lot of concepts, tales, characters and actors which were thrown into the combination.

This has meant there’s loads of info in regards to the Star Wars motion pictures, each by way of what may be present in them and the issues that occurred whereas they have been in manufacturing.

So why 501 bits of trivia? 

We’re doing this publish in honor of the 501st Legion, also called the 501st Battalion or “Vader’s Fist,” was an elite stormtrooper legion underneath the command of the Vader through the Imperial Period.

In the actual world, the 501st is a group of dedicated Star Wars fans who create fashions of fits of armor from the movies, however extra importantly, they’ve a eager eye on performing acts of charity which we predict is nice.

This is 501 of one of the best info about Star Wars that we may discover.

1. When Bounty Hunter Jango Fett will get into his ship after his struggle with Obi-Wan Kenobi in Assault of the Clones, he bangs his head on the open door. This was intentional and is a reference to a well-known goof from the unique film the place a cloned Stormtrooper unintentionally bangs his head on a door (the clone being the descendant of Jango Fett and having inherited this character trait).
2. In Solo, Chewbacca’s father’s title is Attichitcuk, because it was within the notorious TV Particular.
3. Every of the three principal unhealthy guys within the prequel movies comprises a component that portends what Darth Vader will change into. For instance Basic Grevious, being principally a robotic with respiration issue (brought on by Mace Windu, displays the introduction of Vader and his well-known respiration method. 
4. Whereas not named within the movies, Princess Leia’s adoptive mom’s title is Queen Breha Organna. Some folks declare Kylo Ren is thus a prince being Leia’s son, nevertheless we’re fairly positive that royal line died when Alderran was blown up (regardless of what Lor San Tekka would possibly say….)
5. E.T. characters turns up in The Phantom Menace This can be a pay again of types to Stephen Speilber as he positioned a Yoda costume within the Halloween scene of the E.T. movie.
6. Once we discovered that R2D2 could fly in Revenge of the Sith. What the heck?? That little
7. TESB’s line ‘the primary transport is away!” was spoken by Mark Hamill. Nipple cannons indeed: 
8. Darth Vader’s black go well with was partially inspired by Nazi uniform designs.
9. The unique Rogue squad unit in Rouge One had an enormous inexperienced alien known as ‘Senna’ and a Lunka. They have been paired as a duo however finally dropped.
10. Han Solo grabs Princess Leia’s breasts in the course of the Battle of Endor. He was maybe checking she was still wearing this. Harrison Ford additionally pulled an analogous film on the Falcon in The Empire Strikes Again. The scruffy scoundrel… and let’s not neglect the infamous nipple slip Lucas left in in Jedi.
11. In A New Hope, Leia was saved captive on the Loss of life Star in jail cell quantity 2187. This was a deliberate selection as 2187 is the 12 months that the George Lucas directed cult movie THX 1138, was set. The Power Awakens took this even additional and used the quantity as Finn’s designated Stormtrooper quantity FN2187.
12. Yoda’s species has by no means been talked about. In official information, he’s merely an ‘unknown species’. He’ll all the time be Kermit’s ugly cousin to us.
13. Princess Leia by no means really will get to ‘meet’ Basic Obi-Wan Kenobi. She sees him from afar when she’s escaping the Loss of life Star as Obi-Wan is about to let Darth Vader kill him however that is it. Except you depend Obi-Wan being current for her start in Revenge of the Sith…then she by no means met him.
14. Anthony Daniels, who voiced C3P0 and climbed into the tin go well with, is the one actor to seem in all 9 Star Wars saga movies – Daniels additionally had a significant half in The Clone Wars animated movie in fact!
15. Empire was the primary film to have a quantity by its title within the opening credit being ‘V’. The unique Star Warfare was not known as A New Hope or Episode four, this got here later.
16. As Basic Kenobi is about to go away to search out Basic Grievous, he shares a pleasant second with Anakin which finishes with a really loving, ‘Goodbye outdated buddy’ from Kenobi. That is the final time within the film the 2 Jedi converse as mates. A key factor is the lighting – Anakin in the dark and Obi Wan in the light – it’s a literal case of foreshadowing what was to return between them.
17. Bail Organa and Yoda step into the hallway of Organa’s ship and have a pleasant dialog about being rebels or one thing in Revenge of the Sith. It is the precise ship that Darth Vader boards to seize Princess Leia Organa within the begin of A New Hope, The Tantive IV.
18. Darth Vader has his personal theme music written by John Williams. Often known as the Imperial March it was launched within the Empire film and utilized in Jedi and within the prequels to point out when Anakin was turning to the darkish facet of the Power.
19. The furry Ewoks have been a late addition to the Star Wars mythology in Jedi. Their half within the story was to initially be performed by Wookiees, however by the point Lucas and his production partners sat down to jot down Return of The Jedi, they realized that, as a result of Chewbacca may fly the Millennium Falcon, restore the ship and function just about any weapon or machine within the recognized universe, they’d made the Wookies too technologically superior for the plot.
20. Wedge Antilles really is Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Uncle! And he made a cameo appearance in Rogue One.
21. In Jedi, pay attention very fastidiously as Darth Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him down the Loss of life Star shaft. That is the one time the Jedi theme music performs over a shot of Vader, reflecting his return to the sunshine facet of the Power.
22. It is a delusion the Wampa was created to permit for Luke’s rearranged face after a automotive accident. Mark Hamill was injured previous to the filming of The Empire Strikes Back. That is truth although. The parable is that on account of his face being rearranged, Lucas needed to re-write the Hoth occasions to incorporate the Wampa attacking Luke to account for his harm. The reality is that no lodging have been made for Hamill’s face. The parable might be stoked by this moment from Empire that was unused.
23. After showing in Jedi, Wedge Antilles turns into the one X-wing pilot character (other than Luke) who survives all three main battles within the movies. Luke in fact solely took half in two of these battles as a pilot, his final half was on the Loss of life Star, serving to Vader carry down Palpatine. 
24. The Falthier boy jockey on the finish of The final Jedi used the Power to choose up the broom… he was the results of the Spark in spite of everything…
25. Within the Hoth planet Insurgent base – recall that dude to which Han Solo retorts, “Then I will see you in Hell!” simply earlier than he heads out to discover a sure lacking Jedi? That is Cliff Clavin from Cheers AKA John Ratzenberger. As of late he does voice performing in most Pixar motion pictures.
26. Anakin Skywalker actually is the ‘Chosen one’. Whereas Yoda and Mace Windu might have thought a mistake had been made within the studying of the prophecy, Anakin was the one who really killed Sith Lord Palpatine by throwing him down the Loss of life Star’s reactor shaft in Jedi and thus restored stability to the Power.
27. Resulting from a warmth wave in England when filming the Insurgent pilot assaults on the Loss of life Star, it was so scorching the actors wore shorts and never their Insurgent uniform pants.
28. Harrison Ford famously was by no means supposed to be Han Solo, he was simply hanging round after American Graffiti and was serving to different actors learn their traces as Lucas was within the casting course of. Finally, Lucas wised up and realised Harrison already had the half down chilly. That is the stuff of moviemaking legend!
29. After Padme dies, she is returned to he house planet of Naboo for burial – her physique has been altered to make it appear as if she was nonetheless pregnant – that is all a part of the ruse to maintain the existence of Leia and Luke a secret.
30. The well-known reveal of the daddy and son relationship between Vader and Luke in The Empire Strikes Again is usually misquoted as “Luke, I’m your father”. The road is definitely “No, I am your father”.
31. The title of the hangar the place the Millennium Falcon takes off from in A New Hope is docking Bay 94.
32. Whereas Return of the Jedi noticed Luke return the favour to Vader and cut his arm off, the concept for it really got here from the expanded universe novel, ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye’.
33. Vader was really the one Star Wars movie character to lose an arm thrice! And each his legs as nicely. Obi-Wan Kenobi obtained three of his limbs in Revenge of the Sith!
34. James Earl Jones is famed for offering the voice for Vader nevertheless he did not do the well-known respiration impact. This was finished by Ben Burt inserting a microphone contained in the mouth piece of a respiration equipment and recording it getting used.
35. Mr Diehard, Alan Rickman auditioned for the position of Moff Jerjerrod.
36. George Lucas at one stage thought of utilizing the nice actor and director Orson Welles because the voice actor for Darth Vader
37. The Star Wars Ring Theory exhibits how all of the movies underneath Lucas’s management have a powerful rhyme and resonance. The movies echo one another, and key themes re-occur.
38. The scene the place Anakin places his hand on Padme’s throat in Assault of the Clones, foreshadows how he’ll kill her. Choking people in Star Wars is a big theme.
39. It is a delusion that George Lucas had 12 movies all mapped out earlier than the primary Star Wars was launched. That’s the legend however the mythology of it has grown over time. The nutshell is that Lucas wrote quite a lot of materials when he was creating his little sci-fi journey. Based mostly round a so-called “Journal of Whills”, Lucas script finally was reduce up and Star Wars as we all know it was filmed. It was not till Empire Strikes Again got here out that the time period Episode 5 was talked about formally. Lucas’s grand imaginative and prescient was really pieced together over several years in very broad strokes. The 12 or 9 movies as most individuals know of have been by no means totally scripted however have been largely imaginings of Lucas that have been finally firmly realized nicely after 1977
40. The script for A New Hope was heavily influenced by Frank Herbert’s Dune novel – a number of ideas have been taken from it resembling ‘spice’.
41. In ROTS, a fast character cameo happens when Vader and the Emperor are standing on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, overlooking the preliminary building stage of the Loss of life Star. In a blink and you will miss it second, a younger Moff Tarkin quietly sidles as much as the Sith Lords. Moff Tarkin options closely in A New Hope, it’s he who orders the destruction of the planet Alderaan.
42. Throughout the opera scene of ROTS, Palpatine tells Anakin about how Darth Plagueis was so highly effective he may create life. Whereas it is by no means made express, the movie may have been suggesting that Darth Plagueis triggered the ‘immaculate conception’ of Anakin Skywalker. The Expanded Universe novels present that Plagueis definitely was capable of such an amazing act...
43. Jedi was initially going to be known as Revenge of the Jedi till Lucas determined that Jedi don’t search revenge. This was fairly late within the manufacturing so there was quite a lot of promotional gear with the title already printed on it.
44. Mark Hamill obtained a black eye when filming the well-known ‘Dianoga‘ assault within the Trash Compactor scene from A New Hope which meant he was filmed from one facet just for the remaining capturing that scene.
45. E.T. made a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace.
46. When you requested the common Star Wars fan what was Leia’s house world, they might be appropriate in answering the planet Alderraan they usually may go to the pinnacle of the category. When you requested probably the most onerous core fan, they may additionally rapidly add that Leia and Luke have been really born at a medical facility on Polissa Massa – if you happen to’ve seen Revenge of the Sith you would possibly recall that’s the place Obi-Wan Kenobi took the injured Padme for medical help.
47. ANH famously featured the milk on the Lar’s household breakfast scene. Rogue One options the identical blue milk in Noticed’s cavern.
48. Hayden Christensen appeared because the costumed Vader in Revenge of the Sith. He apparently begged Lucas to let him play him.
49. Carrie Fisher spoke many occasions of her struggles with bipolar disorder. You would not want this on any anyone.
50. Harrison Ford and Fisher had an affair through the movie of A New Hope. Ford was married on the time.
51. Leia’s character has her personal musical theme titled “Princess Leia’s Theme”. It’s represented by the musical leitmotif technique which is famously used throughout the movies. The piece was composed by John Williams and was used a number of occasions. It first appeared in A New Hope, heard when Princess Leia is captured by the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader. Later, it surfaces as R2-D2 performs her holographic message to Obi-Wan Kenobi. The additionally theme performs when Kenobi is killed by Vader and it makes an look within the credit of the film. It is also used within the two observe up motion pictures and the Revenge of the Sith prequel when her adoptive father Bail Organa introduces her to her adoptive mom.
52. Within the unique drafts of Star Wars, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker have been positively totally different folks – it wasn’t till the event of script for The Empire Strikes Again that the 2 have been mixed as one character. This implies Darth Vader doesn’t imply Darkish Father and the name was not a hint as to Luke’s parentage.
53. It is a delusion that Splinter of the Thoughts’s Eye was the scripted sequel to A New Hope. The reality is the guide ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye’ was commissioned by Lucas as a possible sequel to Star Wars. The parable is that the novel was written primarily based off a script written by George Lucas. There was no written script in any respect – Alan Dean Foster was writing the novelisation of Star Wars and in addition a second guide. He was as merely instructed by Lucas to jot down the guide primarily based off some concepts and movie remedies that George threw at him. Lucas may then flip it into a movie script down the road, if he so selected. The truth is that when Star Wars ‘went world’ Lucas modified gears and the sequel script was first drafted by Leigh Bracket, which after her demise from most cancers, Lucas refined additional with assist from Lawrence Kasdan.
54. Boba Fett was first seen in The Empire Strikes Again proper? Nope, technically his first look was in an animated section of The Star Wars Vacation Particular. It is the only good part of that movie.
55. Boba additionally really made his first public look in a Star Wars road parade earlier than both film!
56. Frank Oz who’s the voice for probably the most well-known little inexperienced man in cinema historical past, Yoda was additionally the voice of the Muppet’s Miss Piggy. It was due to his skills that he developed with Jim Henson that noticed him get the decision up. He additionally did the puppetry.
57. A really early draft of the Empire noticed Han Solo going in the hunt for his Father-In-Legislation, Ovan Marekal, who has political ties with Lord Vader.
58. In Revenge of the Sith Darth Vader’s head was symmetrical for the primary time in a Star Wars movie. It was developed utilizing exact equipment – the unique was hand sculpted and was mildly aspherical!
59. George Lucas took quite a lot of his inspiration from a movie known as The Hidden Fortress. It featured a pair of bickering sidekicks who served as comedian reduction and crucially managed to assist hold the plot ticking alongside. Lucas adopted this idea and utilized it to the robots.
60. C3PO’s most famous quote is probably “I recommend a brand new technique, Artoo: let the Wookie win.” which just about speaks for itself!
61. The unique drafts for Star Wars present that the Skywalker household was really known as Starkiller. Certainly the drafts featured a Basic Starkiller and didn’t deal with the younger moisture farmer from Tatooine. His son was known as Deak. He finally turned Luke.
62. In ESB’s unique script therapy, Luke Skywalker flies to the ‘Bathroom’ Planet the place he meets a frog-like Jedi named ‘Minch’, who teaches him the methods of the drive. That is proper, Yoda was frog-like and was going to be known as Minch. Are you able to picture it, “However Grasp Minch, you can not die!”
63. Lots of people miss it, pondering the C3PO is completely golden however his proper leg is silver from beneath the knee joint. In The Power Awakens he had a pink arm for a time however on the finish of the film has gone again to what we presume was the unique gold. As for that pink arm…
64. George Lucas made his first Star Wars cameo in Revenge of the Sith. He dressed as a Pantoran senator, Baron Papanoida. You won’t have recognised him as he all dressed up in blue physique paint! His daughter additionally cameoed with him on the identical time. His son Jedi seems as a padwan Jedi that’s killed by the Stormtroopers as he makes an attempt to make contact with Bail Organa. 
65. Ralph McQuarrie designed C3PO by taking liberty with the Maschinenmensch design from the movie Metropolis. The Forbidden Planet’s Robby the Robot additionally was an inspiration for the protocol droid facet.
66. When Anakin is slaughtering the Tusken Raider in Assault of the Clones, Qui-Gon’s voice may be heard within the background. That is no accident as Qui-Gon Jinn’s Power-Ghost was attempting to cease Anakin’s rage, however clearly failed.
67. The characters of R2 and C3PO have been so standard they’d their very own animated tv sequence for a short while and as soon as appeared in episodes of The Muppets and Sesame Avenue the place R2 oddly appeared to fall in love with a hearth hydrant!
68. The planet title of ‘Coruscant’ was created by Star Wars writer Timothy Zahn for his guide Inheritor to The Empire. George Lucas favored the title and included photographs of Coruscant, the Imperial Capital on the finish of the Return of the Jedi film. It then featured within the prequels. The primary character Thrawn from these books finally featured within the third season of Star Wars: Rebels.
69. It was Donnie Yen’s concept for his Rogue One character Chirrut Imwe to be blind. Director Gareth Edwards thought it was cool and ran with it. Yen initially turned down the position when it was first provided to him nevertheless when he informed his youngsters in regards to the probability, they have been so excited, he modified his thoughts.
70. Han Solo’s area ship the Millennium Falcon has a cameo look in Revenge of the Sith. It’s seen touchdown on Coruscant.
71. It was Return of the Jedi’s director Richard Marquand who got here up with the concept of getting Leia flip as much as Jabba’s Palace as a disguised bounty hunter. He additionally urged that Leia ought to strangle Jabba the Hutt.
72. When Luke claims Chewbacca is a prisoner switch from cell block. 1138, this can be a direct reference to George Lucas’s first movie, THX 1138. That movie was a few dystopian future the place a authoritarian regime was in management – a to not dissimilar state of affairs in Star Wars.
73. “I’ve obtained a foul feeling about this” or a variation of it’s spoken in each film. Within the Final Jedi, BB8 says it to Poe Dameron within the X-wing assault on the Dreadnaught scene.
74. R2D2 is taller than the Ewok ‘Wicket’ from ROTJ.
75. Mace Windu is the one Jedi in any movie to wield a purple coloured lightsaber. This is a few of his quotes from the prequels.
76. Not one of the Star Wars movies have credit originally of them. This really turned a very large deal and meant Lucas quit various film institutions such as the Director’s Guild and Stars Wars movies have been thought of unbiased motion pictures.
77. R2D2 and C3PO have been snuck right into a scene in Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Misplaced Ark in addition to JJ Abrams’ two Star Trek films.
78. The Phantom Menace’s manufacturing units have been constructed solely as excessive because the tops of the actors’ heads and pc graphics crammed in the remaining. But it surely was realized that Liam Neeson was so tall that they wanted to construct issues taller and this value the manufacturing one other $150,00Zero in building prices.
79. Quote stated to Jar Jar: “The power to talk doesn’t make you clever. Now get out of right here.” Many Star Wars followers want he paid consideration.
80. What’s in a reputation? The title “Qui Gon” derives from an historical Chinese language system of different drugs known as “Qigong”. The phrase “Jinn” refers back to the “Djinn” or the so-called genies of Arabian delusion.
81. Darth Maul has ten horns on his red head.
82. Darth Vader does not mean Dark Father. The title will not be a clue of Luke’s parentage. The concept that Vader was Luke’s father got here into life, nicely after Leigh Bracket wrote the first draft of Empire.
83. Whereas Ray Park is legendary as taking part in the Sith Lord, Peter Serafinowicz really voiced the character. Benicio Del Toro was initially forged to play Darth Maul however he deserted the position after George Lucas determined to trim Darth Maul’s display time within the movie. Benicio del Toro was initially forged however dropped out. He has a component in Star Wars The Final Jedi as DJ, a slicer of doubtful renown.
84. Actor Hayden Christiansen performed Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith versus David Prowse who beforehand did the position. Hayden apparently begged Lucas to let him play him. The go well with needed to be designed to accommodate his smaller stature than Prowse’s. Not that Lucas would have forged Prowse as he seems to have one thing in opposition to him and he was banned from making any appearances at official Star Wars promotional occasions resembling conventions.
85. The sound of the hovering battle tanks utilized by the battle droids in The Phantom Menace was created by working an electrical razor round a steel salad bowl after which digitally reducing the pitch.
86. In Assault of the Clones, Jar Jar Binks stands in for Senator Amidala and places forth the movement that offers Palpatine supreme powers. Which means that Jar Jar, probably the most universally hated characters within the Star Wars movies is unwittingly accountable for the autumn of the Outdated Republic and the downfall of the Jedi.
87. Revenge of the Sith featured 4 hands being cut off in the film. Anakin loses one to Obi Wan, Mace Windu loses one to Anakin and Obi-Wan cuts two of Basic Grievous’ arms off.
88. The sound impact when Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber is kicked down the reactor shaft within the climactic battle with Darth Maul, is identical sound impact heard when Luke Skywalker throws his lightsaber away in Return of the Jedi when he tells the Emperor that he’s a Jedi, like his father earlier than him!
89. In Solo, there was initially a fourth member of Beckett’s workforce known as Korso however the character was reduce within the enhancing room. You possibly can really see just a few photographs of him within the Mimban sequences. Korso was to be killed early on in order that Becket would see worth in changing him with Chewbacca.
90. R2D2 was infamously given the flexibility to fly within the prequel movies which bugged many followers (regardless of the enjoyable he had on display). This was slightly roughly defined in different fiction that after the Clone Wars the corporate accountable for the event of his boosters went out of enterprise. When his rocket boosters have been broken they have been unable to be repaired.
91. The delivery title of Phantom Menace was “The Doll Home”, Clones was “Cue Ball” and Sith, “The Bridge”.
92. The Phantom Menace was the primary Star Wars movie to be launched on DVD.
93. “Phantom Menace” was the title of a villain within the “Flash Gordon” comics. This should not shock too many individuals as George Lucas has usually cited Flash Gordon as certainly one of his inspirations for making the unique Star Wars. Within the movie of Flash Gordon, Max von Sydow performed the villain, Ming the Cruel. Sydow, in fact, had a flip as The Power Awakens as Lor San Tekka.
94. Admiral Ackbar’s backstory is that he was as soon as the slave of Grand Moff Tarkin, in addition to his private pilot.
95. In Solo, Dryden Vos has a set of Mandalorian Battle Armor in his assortment on his yacht. This is identical type of armour made well-known by bounty hunter Boba Fett.
96. Within the DVD 2004 launch of Jedi, Sebastian Shaw (older Anakin Skywalker) is changed within the celebration scene by Hayden Christensen. A number of followers weren’t pleased about this.
97. Darth Vader’s funeral pyre scene on Endor was added on the final second, lengthy after precept images and pick-ups had wrapped. The scene was thrown collectively and shot close to the hills of Skywalker Ranch – that’s the place Lucasfilm is situated.
98. In Jedi, it took six folks to work the full-sized animatronic of Jabba the Hutt. The frogs he ate weren’t actual. You realize who else eats frogs within the Star Wars universe? Child Yoda.
99. Jedi was the primary Star Wars movie to point out a lightweight saber fight one thing aside from one other mild saber. On Jabba’s Sail Barge, Luke fights the guards bearing staffs and blasters. This maybe a name again to the unique film the place Luke wears a blaster helmet and tries to anticipate blast photographs from the Distant on the Millennium Falcon. This exhibits the progress Luke has made as a Jedi Knight.
100. SLuke’s coaching distant made a return in The Power Awakens. Finn finds it when he’s on the lookout for first help to assist Chewbacca. In The Rise of Sky Walker, Rey trains with one. 
101. Daniel Craig, higher often known as James Bond Zero07 was the Stormtrooper that freed Rey in The Power Awakens.
102. Billy Dee Williams returned as Lando Calrissian in The Rise of Skywalker making it the four fourth time Lando has appeared in a Star Wars movie.
103. The Mandalorian’s Fennec Shand’s title was impressed by a fennec fox.
104. The Falcon has had many names previous to being the Milliniuem Falcom – these embrace Corell’s Satisfaction, Fickle Flyer, Meetyl’s Distress, Stellar Envoy, Jackpot, Gone to Items
105. Frank Oz who’s the voice for probably the most well-known little inexperienced man in cinema historical past, Yoda was additionally the voice of the Muppet’s Miss Piggy. It was due to his skills that he developed with Jim Henson that noticed him get the call-up. He additionally famously did the puppetry. Ouncesreturned to do a line of voice over for The Power Awakens and to carry out a Yoda in The Final Jedi.
106. John Boyega, who performs Finn managed to go away his Rise of SKywalker script underneath his mattress – he moved flats and uncared for it. Finally, it made it made its approach on the market on Ebay – at which level Disney stepped in and purchased the script earlier than it was bought on the location.
107. In the identical vein as a substitute of the Empire discovering the Insurgent’s hideout on Hoth, there was to be a Wampa Assault. Certainly, a scene reduce from the movie was really proven in Empire’s trailer featured C3PO eradicating an indication from a door which he hoped Imperial troops would enter and are available nose to nose with captured Wampa. The Hoth scenes have been really shot in Norway.
108. John Wayne’s voice was used for the Imperial Spy that gave away Han’s location in ANH.
109. In Solo, the theme of the Imperial March may be heard taking part in on the recruitment movie featured originally of the movie earlier than Han indicators as much as the Empire.
110. Warwick Davis, who famously performed Wicket as a baby in Return of the Jedi, really had 3 cameo parts in The Phantom Menance!
111. Empire was the primary film to have a quantity by its title within the opening credit – V. The unique Star Warfare was not known as A New Hope or Episode four, this came later.
112. That dude within the Insurgent Base to which Han Solo retorts, “Then I will see you in Hell!”? simply earlier than he heads out to discover a sure lacking Jedi? That is Cliff Clavin from the TV sitcom Cheers and the Pixar motion pictures AKA John Ratzenberger.
113. The basic “The primary transport is away!” line was delivered by Mark Hamill.
114. To be able to keep away from sharing artistic rights, George Lucas determined to keep away from utilizing a significant movie studio to finance this movie. As an alternative, he bankrolled the $33 million manufacturing himself. After which laughed all the way in which to the financial institution to deposit all the cash he made. Making it probably the most profitable ‘unbiased’ movies ever.
115. Three characters lose bits of limbs – the Wampa that assaults Luke, C3PO when shot by the Storm Troopers on Cloud Metropolis, and naturally Luke’s hand to Vader’s saber.
116. George Lucas took quite a lot of his inspiration from a movie known as The Hidden Fortress. It featured a pair of bickering sidekicks who served as comedian reduction and crucially managed to assist hold the plot ticking alongside. Lucas adopted this idea and utilized it to the robots. That is fairly amusing because it seems in actual life that Kenny Baker and R2D2 did not get on too nicely – it is nicely documented that Daniels has been fairly vocal about Baker’s perspective.You realize that superior pod racer race in The Phantom Menace? Yep, Lucas was simply copying the well-known chariot race from Ben Hur. Lucas actually copied from a LOT of movies to make his own one.
117. Not one of the Star Wars movies have credit originally of them. This really turned a very large deal and meant Lucas quit various film institutions such as the Director’s Guild and Stars Wars movies have been thought of unbiased motion pictures as consequence.
118. Lucas was really fairly good at stealing good concepts. You realize that bit the place Obi-Wan feels the demise of the folks on the planet Alderaan? Lucas simply took that from a Star Trek episode the place Spock felt the death of 400 of his own Vulcan kind.
119. David Lynch was provided the prospect to direct Return of the Jedi however turned it down. Are you able to think about how loopy Jedi may have turned out if Lynch had forged his magic over the movie? Lynch really selected Dune as his subsequent movie, and whereas it wasn’t a universally accepted movie, it has gone on to earn its personal distinctive place in movie historical past as a very attention-grabbing sci-fi film. It was additionally most likely simply as nicely that Sting did not have a job in Jedi both…..Reality be informed although, the Dune book had a massive influence on Star Wars.
120. Kenny Baker didn’t really movie something for Revenge of the Sith, his elements have been a mixture of CGI and photographs recycled from Assault of the Clones.
121. C3PO’s most famous quote is probably “I recommend a brand new technique, Artoo: let the Wookie win.” which just about speaks for itself! As a facet word, that recreation between Chewbacca and R2D2 was by no means completed. When Finn bumps the desk in The Power Awakens, it is the identical recreation of Dejarik from A New Hope! That recreation can be referenced within the Han Solo movie.
122. Lots of people miss it, pondering the C3PO is completely golden however his proper knee down is silver. In The Power Awakens, he had a pink arm for a lot of the movie.
123. Anthony Daniels is the one actor to have appeared in all the unique, prequels and sequels. He additionally did the cameo in Rogue One, which means he has appeared in 10 movies. Daniels additionally did voice-over work for The Clone Wars movie.
124. Carrie Fisher’s position following her demise was made potential by recycling scenes from The Power Awakens and The Final Jedi and utilizing some fancy CGI functions.
125. BB-Eight’s new buddy is known as D-Zero.
126. Naomi Ackie, is making her Star Wars debut as Jannah. It’s speculated that she is the daughter of Lando Calrissain.
127. The primary teaser trailer used the identical phrasing as The Phantom Menace did – “Each technology has a legend” was repeated. TPH had the road “Each saga has a starting” whereas TROS exhibits its intent with “Each saga has an ending”.
128. That is the ninth and ultimate Star Wars composed by John Williams. That is an unimaginable feat.
129. George Lucas as soon as envisioned that C3PO and R2D2 can be the one characters that characteristic in each movie within the saga – seems this could be true. Anthony Daniels additionally turns into the one actor to seem in all of the movies as Kenny Baker died.
130. After George Lucas’s four director credit within the Skywalker saga, solely JJ Abrams can have made multiple movie.
131. Colin Trevorrow was initially employed to direct the movie after his success with Jurassic Park however was fired and JJ was requested to return again.
132. Whereas the working title of the film was ‘trIXie’ it was additionally known as Black Diamond for a time in preproduction.
133. Keri Russel has a long run working relationship with JJ – she was the star of his present Felicity and had a job in Mission Unimaginable III which JJ directed. Russel’s character is known as Zorri Bliss.
134. The Power Awakens trilogy is the primary Star Wars trilogy the place all three movies have been launched in the identical decade.
135. The primary Rise of Skywalker teaser trailer ended with audio of Emperor Palpatine cackling with laughter. Actor Ian McDiarmid didn’t document fun for that, it was used from outdated recorded audio. McDiarmid clearly performs the resurrected character within the movie.
136. The desert planet that includes the Aki-Aki is called Pasaana. The scenes for this location have been filmed within the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan.
137. The beasts the Finn and Jannah journey are known as ‘orbaks’.
138. Whereas doing promo work for the movie, Billy Dee Williams described himself as ‘gender fluid’. Although it is sophisticated, we suspect L3-37 would approve.
139. Emperor Palpatine’s ‘Throne’ was impressed by a sketch from Ralph McQuarrie – the artist who did all the unique trilogy idea designs for George Lucas:
140. The Rise of Skywalker is ready one 12 months after the occasions of The Final JediCarrie Fisher’s scenes as Leia are cuts taken from The Power Awakens and The Final Jedi that are mashed up with some intelligent CGI utility.
141. The snow planet is known as Kijimi and is the native for the ‘Thieve’s Quarter’.
142. There are six Knights of Ren, aside from Kylo.
143. Rey makes use of a coaching distant when coaching in The Rise of Skywalker – a transparent name again to Luke’s use of 1 in A New Hope.
144. Kylo Ren’s repairing his masks slightly than changing it’s a reference to the Japanese artwork of Kintsugi, also called Kintsukuroi. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and restore as a part of the historical past of an object, slightly than one thing to disguise.
145. Within the scene the place C3PO has his reminiscence wiped in Sith, you’ll be able to see a Prequel Period Battle Droid within the background. Roger! Roger!
146. TROS is the primary Star Wars movie the place Carrie Fisher receives ‘prime billing’. Submit humously at that.
147. Working at 155 minutes, The Rise of Skywalker is the longest Star Wars film.
148. The Loss of life Star II wreckage will not be on the ‘small moon of Endor” from Return of the Jedi, slightly it a special moon known as Kef Bir.
149. The Aubresh writing on Lando’s cain reveals that his full title is “Baron Landonis Balthazar Calrissian III.” That is really only a additional affirmation – within the Solo movie, L337 refers to Lando instantly as Landonis.
150. All that stated, he was initially scripted in TESB as having the title of “Lando Kadar”
151. In TLJ, Tom Hardy (Batman, Peaky Blinders) and Gary Barlow (singer from Take That) made cameo appearances as Stormtroopers, nevertheless their scenes have been reduce (as have been these of Prince William and Harry).
152. The Bantha milk drank by Luke and Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru in A New Hope is blue! It is change into the stuff of Star Wars legend a lot so, it was utilized in Rogue One as nicely.
153. Anakin Skywalker actually is the ‘Chosen one’. Whereas Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi might have thought a mistake had been made within the studying of the prophecy, Anakin was the one who really killed Sith Lord Palpatine by throwing him down the Loss of life Star’s reactor shaft in Jedi and thus restored stability to the Power.
154. Carrie Fisher appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. This film was a bizarre Kevin Smith homage to Star Wars and featured an look by Fisher as a nun and Mark Hamill as a parody of himself. Carrie’s cameo was the one which obtained the laughs…. do you observe the great guide?
155. Lots of people neglect this but in addition Fisher appeared within the basic film When Harry met Sally. She was the ‘buddy’ of Sally who ended up marrying Harry’s finest buddy. See, there’s life outdoors of Star Wars! Fisher additionally had a cameo within the Blues Brothers!
156. For the prequel movie Assault of the Clones, Yoda was carried out by Frank Oz. The subsequent two prequels featured a CGI Yoda and the DVD release of Clones noticed a CGI model exchange the puppet.
157. Whereas many suppose Yoda had Darth Sidious beat in his well-known duel in Revenge of the Sith, it was really Mace Windu, a former scholar of Yoda who firmly beat the Sith Lord (in fact Anakin got here in and ruined all of it..).
158. Whereas Qui-Gon Jin theorized that Anakin’s virgin start was the desire of the Power, Palpatine implied in Revenge of the Sith that Darth Plagueis triggered the start utilizing the Power – earlier drafts of the ROTS script urged this was certainly the case. It’s non-canon nevertheless, so it’s solely a idea.
159. The Solo script was written by Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan. Which means that Lawrence has had a hand in writing 4 Star Wars movies (Empire, Jedi, TFA and this Solo).
160. Within the unique Empire script when Lando is about to guide Han, Leia, and Chewie into the entice laid out by Darth Vader, Lando affords his arm to Leia, as a gesture to guide her down the hallway to which she accepts. Harrison Ford ad-libbed Han speeding as much as the Princess and providing his arm to her at the very same second to suggest that Han was jealous of Lando’s gentlemanly actions.
161. Seven folks have contributed to the character efficiency of Darth Vader within the motion pictures. If we go in chronological order – Jake Lloyd performed Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, Hayden Christian performed Anni and Darth within the different two prequels, David Prowse was the go well with in all three unique trilogy movies whereas James Earl Jones did the voice over four occasions (inc Revenge of the Sith). Bob Anderson chipped in with some stunt work in Jedi and Sebastian Shaw famously performed the unmasked Vader in Jedi as nicely. Lastly, when The Empire Strikes Again was redone for re launch in 1994-95, C. Andrew Nelson was used for just a few fill in fine details.
162. Ello Asty is so named for JJ Abram’s love of the Beastie Boys – they as soon as launched an album known as Hey Nasty.
163. The unique drafts for Star Wars present that the Skywalker household was really known as Starkiller. Certainly the drafts featured a Basic Starkiller and didn’t deal with the younger moisture farmer from Tatooine. His son was known as Deak. He finally turned Luke.
164. The Ghost ship from Rebels makes an look with the Basic Fleet in Rise of Skywalker
165. Does the title “Annikin Starkiller” sound acquainted? That is the character’s unique title for the Skywalker line.
166. Grasp Yoda is 66 cm tall. As a comparability, R2D2 stands taller at 96 cm!
167. Within the very brief lived however sensible T.V. present Firefly, a mannequin model of Han Solo frozen in carbonite may be seen in lots of locations – the props division would transfer it round as a working gag. Presumably, this was form of like how Superman appeared in every episode of Seinfeld.
168. Harrison Ford is the one actor to have appeared in movies directed by all three of those administrators: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola. The Coppola movie is a brief cameo in Apocalypse Now.
169. Yoda’s initially scripted title was ‘Minch’. Glad Lucas modified it?
170. Everybody assumes Luke solely appeared within the three unique Star Wars movies. Give it some thought for a second and also you’ll notice Skywalker seems as a child on the finish of Revenge of the Sith. He, in fact, appeared for 30 seconds in The Power Awakens and The Final Jedi and TROS making it 7 movie appearances.
171. Vader’s famous heaving breathing sounds have been recorded by Ben Burt while he breathed into an aqualung.
172. Within the unique drafts of Star Wars, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker have been positively totally different folks – it wasn’t till the event of the Empire therapy that the 2 have been mixed as one character. People still argue to this day that Lucas always knew Vader was Luke’s father!
173. James Earl Jones was the voice of Vader however followers most likely didn’t know that through the unique screenings of the movie as his title wasn’t included within the credit as it’s immediately. That is apparently as a result of he didn’t need his title to be related to a movie that he thought was going to be a flop.
174. Carrie Fisher wrote an precise bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge and screenplay for the movie primarily based on her writing. The guide was about her drug habit and her relationship together with her mom. Fisher has managed to parlay her writing expertise with just a few turns at taking part in script physician for just a few Hollywood motion pictures, most notably Rene Russo’s Outbreak.
175. Lord Vader’s well-known leitmotif theme music is called The Imperial March and was not launched till Empire Strikes Again.
176. The well-known reveal of the daddy and son relationship between Vader and Luke is usually misquoted as “Luke, I’m your father”. The road is definitely “No, I am your father”. It is form of like how Star Trek’s Captain Kirk by no means really stated: “Beam me up, Scotty”.
177. Ben Burt produced Vader’s respiration sound impact by inserting a microphone contained in the mouthpiece of a respiration equipment and recording it being utilized by a human.
178. The title Darth Vader does not mean Dark Father.
179. Alden Ehrenreich was the primary actor to audition for administrators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. They noticed many different actors however Alden made an enduring impression.
180. The script was written by Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan. Which means that Lawrence has had a hand in writing 4 Star Wars movies (Empire, Jedi, TFA and this one).
181. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were fired by Kathleen Kennedy, the pinnacle of Lucasfilm, solely three weeks away from ending principal images on June 2017. They’re in good firm as Kennedy additionally eliminated Colin Trevorrow from The Rise of Skywalker undertaking. As an alternative, JJ Abrams is again for a second flip at directing to complete the story he began.
182. Mom Proxima is a White Worm, that title is taken from the Bram Stoker guide, The Lair of the White Worm.
183. Miller and Lord’s removing paved the way in which for Ron Howard to complete the Solo movie and even reshoot many scenes. Which means that that is the primary Star Wars movie to have ever been directed by an Academy Award winner for Directing. Howard gained the Golden Gong for A Stunning Thoughts. George Lucas was nominated for the award with A New Hope, which implies he was the primary Oscar-nominated director of Star Wars when he directed The Phantom Menace.
184. Ron Howard famously turned down George Lucas’s offer to direct The Phantom Menace. He additionally famously defended the movie and its young star. Howard had beforehand directed Lucasfilm’s Willow manufacturing. Howard, in fact, starred within the George Lucas movie, American Graffiti, and its sequel.
185. When Han pulled the eel from out of his pants in Solo, this was a nod to Indiana Jones and the Final Campaign the place River Phoenix does the identical with a snake. It is a nod to the actual fact Alden was changing Ford, as Phoenix did the identical in that film on the begging. Lawrence Kasdan additionally wrote the Indiana Jones movies so it is an ideal reference.
186. The combating type ‘Teras Kasi’ was initially in Rogue One (Noticed educated Jyn to struggle in that type) nevertheless it obtained reduce in line with scriptwriter Gary Whitta.
187. Solo refers to Chewbacca as being a moof milker – Solo makes use of the identical insult in The Power Awakens when he says “Hey! Some moof-milker put in a compressor on the ignition line!”
188. The battle on Mimban in Solo was impressed by Stanley Kubrick’s, Paths of Glory.
189. Solo was the second Star Wars movie to not have a lightweight saber struggle.
190. John Howell composed the movie rating for Solo. He is an skilled composer and has an Academy Award nomination for his Easy methods to Prepare Your Dragon rating. This implies Howell is just the third composer on a Star Wars movie after John Williams and Michael Giacchino (Rogue One).
191. Woody Harrelson was picked over Christian Bale as Solo’s mentor, Beckett. Solo is the second time he has been in a Ron Howard directed movie. The primary was EdTV.
192. Whereas some followers have guessed that Solo, is presumably the film that Josh Trank had been employed to direct till he was faraway from the job on account of rumored poor on and offset efficiency through the ill-fated Improbable 4 reboot, this isn’t the case. Trank’s movie was doubtless a Boba Fett story – both approach Kathleen Kennedy has confirmed they modified the order of the Anthology movies, confirming that Trank was not directing the Solo film.
193. Dryden Vos’ house base was not initially a ship however an island fortress. It might have featured Lando racing by way of a sequence of canals however the concept was dropped as it could have been too onerous to get it filmed nicely.
194. There was a fourth member of Beckett’s workforce known as Korso however the character was reduce within the enhancing room. You possibly can really see just a few photographs of him within the Mimban sequences. Korso was to be killed early on in order that Becket would see worth in changing him with Chewbacca.
195. The working title used during filming was “Red Cup” a reference to the plastic red Solo cups which might be standard for consuming beer from at keg events. The theme of the Imperial March may be heard taking part in on the recruitment movie featured originally of the movie earlier than Han indicators as much as the Empire.
196. The job on the Conveyex initially featured the rescue of a band of criminals destined for jail, not Coaxium. Jon Kasdan stated the concept was they might stroll away wordlessly after their rescue however flip up in a possible sequel to rescue Han and Chewie from a decent spot.
197. Solo was the primary dwell motion Star Wars movie to not characteristic C3PO or Arto Dee Too.
198. Michael Kenneth Williams was initially forged within the movie and shot scenes, however amid the reshoots, he was unable to return to the set and his position as a CGI character was eliminated. As an alternative, Paul Bettany was introduced in by Howard and the position was filmed in individual. Bettany had a significant position in Howard’s A Beautiful Mind in order that they already had the connection. Bettany can be fairly standard presently on account of his position as Jarvis and Imaginative and prescient within the Avenger motion pictures.
199. 30 odd years since Howard directed Warwick Davis in Willow, he directed him once more in yet one more cameo performance in a Star Wars film.
200. That is Joonas Suotamo’s second full gig taking part in Chewbacca after his first flip in The Final Jedi. Suotomo performed Chewbacca formally as a physique double in The Power Awakens – it’s speculated he did any elements the place Chewbacca was strolling, this was because of the unwell well being (unhealthy knees) of the unique Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew.
201. Dryden Vos has a set of Mandalorian Battle Armor in his assortment on his yacht. This is identical type of armour made well-known by bounty hunter Boba Fett.
202. The Solo film establishes that Chewbacca is 190 years outdated.
203. The Golden Idol (Fertility Idol) from the opening scene the place Indiana steals it in Raiders Of The Misplaced Ark may be seen sitting on a desk within the assembly room of Paul Bettany’s character Dryden Vos. It is a tribute to Harrison Ford who in fact performed Han Solo. 
204. In The Rise of Skywalker scene have been C3PO has his circuits rewired by Babu Frick, look within the background – you will see a retired Battle Droid which was first featured in The Phantom Menace. Roger Roger!
205. Lando Calrissian’s return to Star Wars in The Rise of Skywalker marks a niche of 36 years since he was final seen in Return of the Jedi.
206. Michael Kenneth Williams took half within the preliminary spherical of filming of Solo, nevertheless, he was unavailable for reshoots which meant he was changed with Paul Bettany as Dryden Vos.
207. Tobias Beckett’s character was partially impressed by Lengthy John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Silver had a relationship with Jim Hawkins and the Solo / Beckett relationship mirrors that. In the identical vein, scriptwriters additionally likened the connection to that of Val Kilmer’s and Bobby De Niro’s characters relationships in Michael Mann’s Warmth.
208. Emilia Clarke made her title because the ‘Mom of Dragons’ in Sport of Thrones – her look on this movie means she is the tenth actor from that sequence to have a component in Star Wars – many of those roles were cameos, nevertheless Clarke’s position is a starring half as Qi’ra, a love curiosity for Han.
209. Emperor Palpatine’s return in TROS regardless of his supposed demise by the hands of Anakin Skywalker in Jedi means the character has appeared 6 occasions in Star Wars.
210. Peter Cushing filmed all his scenes as Grand Moff Tarkin sporting slippers.
211. Solo is the primary Star Wars movie to not use the phrase ‘Jedi’.
212. It spans 6 years, which means it has the longest timeframe of any Star Wars film (The opening scene from Rogue One excluded…)
213. Rogue One was the primary Star Wars movie to not characteristic a Skywalker of any variety.
214. Warwick Davis reprised his position as Weasel from The Phantom Menace. He performed the identical character as a member of Enys Nest’s gang of marauders.
215. Did you spy the cube in Han’s land speeder? They’re those that make it on to the Falcon. They change into a minor plot level in The Final Jedi and may be seen in a deleted scene of The Power Awakens.
216. Jason Bourne scriptwriter Tony Gilroy did extensive rewrites and reshoots on Rogue One, a lot so he gained a credit score for the script and is taken into account to have saved the transferring from being a field workplace flop.
217. Here’s the chronological order of the Star Wars films.
218. Beckett’s sudden however inevitable betrayal on the finish is supposed to rhyme with Han returning to avoid wasting Luke on the finish of A New Hope. Jon Kasdan says that in each motion pictures the older, wiser character needed to reluctantly depart and are available again abruptly. The distinction being the betrayal in comparison with Han proving himself a hero.
219. Val mentions ‘Bossk‘. That is the bounty hunter seen within the line up of hunters throughout The Empire Strikes Again.
220. Enfys Nest’s character name leaked on account of promotional materials slipping out.
221. Lando’s “cape closet” was an concept from the unique administrators. The scene with Han and Qi’ra was a nod to an analogous scene Han and Leia had within the avionics room in The Empire Strikes Again.
222. In The Rise of Skywalker, Billy Dee Williams wears a dressing up similar to Lando’s ‘yellow go well with’ from this fill which is a good name again to a ‘will need to have’ trend merchandise…
223. In Solo, Warwick Davis reprised his position as Weasel from The Phantom Menace. He performed the identical character as a member of Enfys Nest’s gang of marauders.
224. When Han is caught within the mud throughout his first encounter with Chewie in Solo, his pose is similar to the certainly one of him within the frozen block of carbonite in The Empire Strikes Again.
225. The creature the Falcon encounters within the Kessel Run is known as a Summa-Verminoth. It was impressed by the notion that it was to be a Lovecraft monster.
226. David Filoni, the hand that developed The Clone Wars directed two episodes of The Mandalorian and in addition cameoed as an X-Wing pilot in ‘The Prisoner’ episode. 
227. The planet Mimban which Han discover himself on in Solo was first referenced within the first Star Wars prolonged universe novel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
     

228. The return of Darth Maul was obliquely hinted at within the film. The title Crimson Daybreak, the artifacts that Vos had collected in his examine and Qi’ra’s use of Teras Kasi.
229. E.T. creatures made a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace
230. The Millennium Falcon is spied landing on Coruscant in Revenge of the Sith. This was previous to Lando or Han Solo proudly owning it!
231. Whereas Ray Park is legendary for taking part in the Sith Lord, Darth Maul, Peter Serafinowicz really voiced the character.
232. Hayden Christiansen performed Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith versus David Prowse who beforehand did the position. Hayden apparently begged Lucas to let him play him. The go well with needed to be designed to accommodate his smaller stature than Prowse’s.
233. The sound of the hovering battle tanks utilized by the battle droids in The Phantom Menace was created by working an electric razor round a steel salad bowl after which digitally reducing the pitch.
234. In Assault of the Clones, Jar Jar Binks stands in for Senator Amidala and places forth the movement that offers Palpatine supreme powers. Which means that Jar Jar, probably the most universally hated characters within the Star Wars movies is unwittingly accountable for the autumn of the Outdated Republic and the downfall of the Jedi.
235. Revenge of the Sith featured quite a lot of hands being cut off. Anakin loses one to Obi-Wan, Mace Windu loses one to Anakin, and Obi-Wan cuts two of Basic Grievous’ arms off and Dooku loses two to Anakin.
236. The sound impact when Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber is kicked down the reactor shaft within the climactic battle with Darth Maul, is identical sound impact heard when Luke Skywalker throws his lightsaber away in Return of the Jedi. You realize, when he tells the Emperor that he’s a Jedi, like his father earlier than him!
237. Wedge Antiles makes a cameo of sorts in Rogue One. The voice actor for the character, David Ankrum, was introduced in to do act because the Public Handle voice for the scenes that includes the Insurgent Base. Ankrum may be heard telling the Rebels to board their ships.
238. George Lucas made his first and only Star Wars cameo in Revenge of the Sith. He dressed as a Pantoran senator, Baron Papanoida. You won’t have acknowledged him as he all dressed up in blue physique paint! His daughter additionally cameoed with him on the identical time. That is maybe to reflect his rhyming (ring theory) all through the movies as Return of the Jedi director Richard Marquand made a cameo in The Return of the Jedi.
239. When Anakin is slaughtering the Tusken Raider in Assault of the Clones, Qui-Gon’s voice may be heard within the background yelling “Anakin! Anakin!”. That is no accident as Qui-Gon Jinn’s Power-Ghost was attempting to cease Anakin’s rage however clearly failed.
240. The shipping title of Phantom Menace was “The Doll House”, Clones was “Cue Ball” and Sith, “The Bridge”.
241. Revenge of the Sith is the one Star Wars movie up to now that doesn’t characteristic R2D2 within the ultimate shot (and Rogue One and Solo in the event that they depend!).
242. In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin famously slices off Rely Dooku’s arms – look clearly as soon as Dooku is useless and you may see them mendacity on the ground.
243. Anthony Daniels did a cameo in Attack of the Clones – verify him out within the bar scene the place the murderer is caught.
244. George Lucas took quite a lot of his inspiration for Star Wars from a movie known as The Hidden Fortress (amongst other things). It featured a pair of bickering sidekicks who served as comedian reduction and crucially managed to assist hold the plot ticking alongside. Lucas adopted this idea and utilized it to the C3PO and R2D2. The 2 loosely serve to inform the story of Star Wars from their viewpoint and naturally make just a few saves alongside the way in which.
245. Robby the Robot from The Forbidden Planet film additionally impressed Lucas, particularly the truth that Robby was a protocol droid.
246. The band that performs the well-known “Cantina’ music in ANH is known as Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes. The bald gamers are often known as Biths. You possibly can rent them for weddings.
247. C-3PO has the first line in A New Hope (Did you hear that? They’ve shut down the main reactor) and the final line within the Revenge of the Sith (oh no!), neatly tying the 2 trilogies collectively.
248. You realize that bit the place Obi-Wan feels the demise of the folks on the planet Alderaan? Lucas simply took that from a Star Trek episode the place Spock felt the death of 400 of his own Vulcan kind.
249. Though Rely Dooku is the principle villain and is talked about within the opening crawl of Attack of the Clones he doesn’t really make his first look till 76 minutes into the movie.
250. Earlier than Anakin beheaded Dooku within the opening act of Revenge of the Sith, he cut off his arms, making him the fifth individual to lose an arm within the franchise. That is by way of order of the movies popping out. When you go chronological order he was the third after Zam Wessel and Anakin.
251. Christopher Lee performed Dracula reverse A New Hope’s Peter Cushing as Dr. Van Helsing in just a few motion pictures.
252. Whereas Rely Dooku had taken his vow of being a Sith Lord and was so named Darth Tyranus, the novel of the movie sheds some mild on the plan he and Darth Sidious had been working. The 2 of them had supposed to show Anakin to the Darkish Aspect to get and get him to guide a Sith Military. Nonetheless, when Anakin had over powered him and was urged to kill him by Sidious, Tyranus realised Palpatine had by no means really supposed for him to be his apprentice however had merely been utilizing him as a way to engineer the struggle and as a placeholder for his true supposed apprentice, Anakin.
253. When he was a Jedi, Dooku’s first padawan was The Phantom Menace’s Qui Gon Jinn.
254. Dooku was at one time in scripting thought of to be a feminine sith. The rejected ideas for this concept have been finally channeled into the event of Asajj Ventress, who appeared often within the animated Clone Wars present.
255. Rely Dooku solely speaks a complete of 4 traces in Revenge of the Sith!
256. Resulting from Lee’s age when filming his position, Kyle Rowling portrayed Dooku throughout a lot of the character’s lightsaber sequences, Rowling’s head was digitally changed with Lee’s throughout post-production work.
257. In TLJ When Luke is projecting himself to Crait from the Island there are two clues for the viewer to know that is occurring. The primary is his beard is brown and he seems youthful – this is identical look as when he final noticed Kylo Ren on the ‘Jedi Academy’ flashback. The second clue is whereas Kylo’s toes the place disturbing the pink salt through the confrontation, when Luke walked over the identical floor, no pink salt was disturbed.
258. Poe Dameron‘s name is inspired by JJ’s longtime assistant Morgan Dameron.
259. Christopher Lee seems within the Clone Wars movie, doing the voice of his character.
260. Within the Assault of the Clones scene the place Rely Dooku visits his prisoner Obi-Wan Kenobi and tries in useless to recruit him to his facet was not within the unique capturing script. This scene was filmed throughout reshoots and was designed to deceive the movie viewer into pondering that Dooku might not be an evil character in spite of everything. Different scenes had been filmed that confirmed a trial for our captured heroes the place Dooku’s allegiances have been firmly established.
261. Admiral Ackbar was supposed by Gary Whitta to guide the assault on Scariff nevertheless JJ Abrams beat him to the punch and used him in TFA. Gary was quoted as saying “We didn’t wish to use him once more after The Power Awakens. So Ackbar turned Admiral Raddus.”
262. George Lucas took script inspiration from many areas – including 19 films.
263. Marcia Griffin was George’s spouse – she famously was the editor of the movie and gained an Oscar for her efforts.
264. In Jedi, the green Twilek Oola has a nipple slip and George Lucas left it in each time Jedi was re-released. Possibly the Rancor was alleged to distract us?
265. In Revenge of the Sith, all filmed photographs of C3PO had the inexperienced display set reflecting in his shiny gold armor, so digital results artists in post-production needed to digitally redo C3PO’s armour body by body to take away any traces of the inexperienced reflection.
     
266. Legend has it that Carrie Fisher had an enormous drug drawback through the filming of Return of the Jedi. Cocaine was apparently her powder of selection. In Jedi, you’ll be able to see she wears an additional lengthy fingernail which is only a good instrument to help with the distribution of nostril sweet up the nostril.
267. Carrie Fisher has spoken many occasions about her struggles with bipolar disorder. You would not want this on anyone. Watch this interview she did with the great Steven Fry. It offers a daunting context in how she struggled with this sickness.
268. Princess Leia was topic to probably the most well-known ad-libs in cinema historical past – that being Han Solo’s response to her declaration of affection – “I do know”. Harrison Ford apparently made it up at Irvine Kershner’s suggestion. Leia obtained to return the road in Jedi through the Battle of Endor. After Han Solo grabbed her 
269. Based on Fisher in her novel, The Princess Diarist, she and Harrison Ford had a three-month lengthy fling through the making of A New Hope. Harrison was married on the 
270. Carrie Fisher appeared as a nun in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. This film was a bizarre Kevin Smith homage to Star Wars and featured an look by Fisher as a nun and Mark Hamill as a parody of himself. Carrie’s cameo was the one which obtained the laughs…do you observe the great 
271. Lots of people neglect this however Fisher appeared within the basic film When Harry met Sally. She was the ‘buddy’ of Sally who ended up marrying Harry’s finest 
272. Carrie Fisher’s mom is definitely a well-known actress in her personal proper, Debbie 
273. Fisher was as soon as married to at least one half of Simon and Garfunkel. It was Simon.
274. Leia’s golden steel bikini that she wore whereas strangling the slug Jabba the Hutt in Return of Jedi is probably probably the most well-known bikini within the historical past of bikinis. Its iconic standing in movie historical past is probably solely rivaled by Ursula Andress’s exit from the seaside in James Bond’s Dr No. Many ladies (and the odd male!) like to decorate as Leia and attend conventions dressed within the bikini.
275. In Solo, Val mentions ‘Bossk‘. That is the Trandoshian bounty hunter seen within the line up of hunters throughout The Empire Strikes Again. We lastly see Trandoshians in motion in The Mandalorian – a bunch of them assault the Bounty Hunter as he’s transporting ‘child yoda’.
276. Leia says the final line of the film Rogue One “What Is It They’ve Despatched Us? Hope.” It is a intelligent arrange for the title of A New Hope and ties in thematically nicely. In saying this final line, that takes Leia’s tally of saying the final line of a Star Wars movie to three – the opposite two being The Power Awakens and Return of the Jedi.
277. Fisher appeared publish humously in The Rise of Skywalker as Leia. JJ Abram labored her into the script by utilizing deleted scenes and out-takes from The Power Awakens and The Final Jedi. Her daughter crammed in because the physique double for the saber struggle with younger Luke Skywalker. 
278. Director Rian Johnson got here up with the title for The Final Jedi throughout his first draft and needed to hold it secret for a number of years.
279. Rian has confirmed that to his thoughts, The Last Jedi title refers to Luke.
280. Tom Hardy (Batman, Peaky Blinders) and Gary Barlow (singer from Take That) made cameo appearances as Stormtroopers, nevertheless their scenes have been reduce (as have been these of Prince William and Harry).
281. Rogue One’s director Gareth Edwards has a small cameo the Final Jedi as a foot soldier on Crait (he additionally had one in his personal movie Rogue One)
282. Jimmy Vee now performs R2D2, formally changing Kenny Baker following his demise.
283. The horses that Finn and Rose escape on through the scene on Canto Bight are known as ‘falthiers’. The handler / coach of the falthiers goes by the title of Bargwill Tomder.
284. Rian Johnson watched three specific motion pictures to assist encourage him when writing the script for TLJ. Rian stated “Twelve O’Clock High was an enormous touchstone, for the appear and feel of the aerial fight in addition to the dynamic between the pilots. Three Outlaw Samurai for the texture of the sword-fighting, and the overall sense of pulpy enjoyable. And To Catch A Thief was an ideal movie to rewatch, for the romantic scale and grandeur”.
285. Canto Bight is on a planet known as Cantonica. It isn’t named in The Final Jedi. 
286. Carrie Fisher’s sudden demise in December 2016 meant she had not accomplished her audio dialogue re-recording elements for TLJ. The sound workforce needed to take snippets of her work “from right here and there” to get the job finished.
287. Rian Johnson requested JJ Abrams for a Power Awakens script change to permit R2D2 to accompany Rey to Ach-to Island as a substitute of BB8. This was so R2 may characteristic extra and in addition echo the truth that he was on Degobah with Luke throughout his coaching with Yoda, a lot the identical as Rey does with Luke.
288. The Final Jedi has 12 scene finish ‘wipes’ in comparison with The Phantom Menace which had 55.
289. Kelly Marie Tran by taking part in Rose Tico is the primary main character of Asian heritage.
290. George Lucas had completely no half within the improvement of the film.
291. Within the prequel Rogue One, Jyn Erso reads out the record of knowledge file names – one is ‘hyperspace monitoring’ – this exhibits it was a ‘factor’ within the Star Wars universe and never only a gimmick for the film.
292. When Luke is projecting himself to Crait from the Island there are two clues for the view. His beard is brown and he seems youthful – the identical look as when he final say Kylo Ren. Whereas Kylo’s toes the place disturbing the pink salt, when Luke walked over it, no pink salt was disturbed.
293. Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has a cameo as one of many final Rebels on Crait – you’ll be able to catch him within the trenches.
294. DJ’s title stands for Do not Be a part of. As in ‘do not be a part of a facet’ – it is really written on his hat in Aubresh.
295. No mild sabers really cross one another within the warmth of battle in TLJ, a primary for a principal trilogy Star Wars movie.
296. When you look fastidiously within the TLJ film, you’ll be able to see Laura Dern’s Admiral Holdo say “pew” when she fires her stun blast at C’ai Threnalli.
297. When Poe says to Rey, “I do know” this is a call back to Han Solo’s famous quote.
298. The preliminary working title of Rise of Skywalker was ‘Black Diamond, earlier than it turned TrIXe – spot the roman numeral for 9 in that title
299. When Luke Skywalker takes the saber provided by Rey as they meet, a detailed inspection of the hand exhibits injury precisely on the place Luke was shot in The Return of the Jedi through the escape from the Sarlac Pitt:
300. Rian was employed to direct the The Final Jedi simply when J.J. Abrams was beginning to shoot The Power Awakens.
301. The quantity of sensible creatures in The Final Jedi is larger than The Power Awakens and Rogue One mixed.
302. Adrian “Ade” Edmondson, of British Sitcom TV Royalty, has an prolonged cameo as a First Order Officer in TLJ
303. Everybody is aware of that Admiral Ackbar’s phrase “It is a entice!” has change into nearly extra well-known that Ackbar himself. However that was not the unique line in Kasdan’s script for Jedi. The precise phrases have been, “It is a trick!”. The true truth to level out is that Princess Leia known as out to Luke Akbar’s well-known quote in The Empire Strikes Again.
304. The unique Star Wars soundtrack stays the very best grossing non-popular music recording of all-time.
305. One of many first concepts for Lando Calrissian was to have him as a clone who survived the Clone Wars who leads legions of clones. Finally he was made his personal man and Jango Fett form of took that position.
306. Soundtrack composer John Williams has been nominated for over 40 Grammy Awards, profitable over 20 occasions together with a number of for Star Wars
307. Rogue One was the primary Star Wars movie for John Williams didn’t compose the rating
308. Yaphet Kotto, was provided the position of Lando Calrissian, however turned it down. 
309. When Rey reaches out and touches the rain on the Island, that is her first expertise of rain. When she is drawn into the darkish facet of the island, that is most likely her first time submerged in salt water or even perhaps swimming. Bear in mind, there was not quite a lot of water on Jakku.
310. In The Power Awakens, Christopher Lee’s niece performed Physician Kalonia! The physician that tends to Chewbacca’s arm wound would have been well-known to British Star Wars followers as she was performed by Dame Harriet Walter, a famend stage and display actress. There is a good piece of symmetry right here in that her uncle was Christoper Lee who performed Rely Dooku in two Star Wars movies.
311. The Starkiller base title was impressed by that phrase being the unique scripted final title of Luke Skywalker.
312. On Jakku in TFA, you’ll be able to spot an outdated pod rusting racer – a nod to the nice race in The Phantom Menace.
313. Jabba the Hutt who had a quick cameo through the pod race scene in The Phantom Menace is listed within the credit as being performed by “himself”.
314. Within the prequel Rogue One, Jyn Erso reads out the record of knowledge file names – one is ‘hyperspace monitoring’ – this exhibits it was a ‘factor’ within the Star Wars universe and never only a gimmick invented by Rian Johnson in The Final Jedi.
315. The well-known reveal of the daddy and son relationship between Vader and Luke in The Empire Strikes Again is usually misquoted as “Luke, I’m your father”. The road is definitely “No, I am your father”.
316. The Power Awakens’ Captain Phasma‘s ultimate armour ‘look’ was at one time a conceptual design for Kylo Ren.
317. Phasma wears a black cape with pink trim, the colors of the First Order. Provided that Phasma was impressed by the Boba Fett character it is no shock she has a cape as the unique concept for Fett was to have him put on a cape / poncho within the type of The Man with no Name from Clint Eastward’s Spaghetti Westerns.
318. At one stage Carrie Fisher had not learn The Power Awaken’s script however was determined too. She tried to bribe costume designer Michael Kaplan to disclose particulars with an opportunity to see the pink sneakers from the Wizard of Oz that Fisher’s mom owned. Kaplan whereas tempted, he saved his mouth shut and by no means noticed the sneakers.
319. The late and nice John Wayne’s voice was utilized in ANH – an outdated recording was manipulated and used for the Imperial spy Garindan – that is the man with the large black nostril that informs the Stormtroopers as to Luke and firm’s whereabouts. It is fairly a cool little bit of trivia if you perceive that Wayne’s The Searchers had a strong influence on the movie.
320. In Noticed Gerrera’s collapse Rogue One there are work of monsters from director Gareth Edward’s prior motion pictures, Monsters and Godzilla.
321. Solo was the primary Star Wars movie to not use the phrase ‘Jedi’.
322. Rogue One units up how Luke finally will get the decision signal ‘Rogue-5’. The Authentic Pink 5, Pedrin Gaul, was killed through the battle over Scarif, which means that when Luke will get concerned with the Insurgent assault on the Loss of life Star, he takes up the emptiness in Pink Squad.
323. Rogue One’s working title was ‘Los Alamos’. Star Wars movies have an odd naming history.
324. Alan Tudyk famously performed Enforcer Robot, K-250 in R1. He additionally filmed a small cameo as a pilot known as Wray Nerely nevertheless it was reduce from the ultimate movie.
325. The sound of the hovering battle tanks utilized by the battle droids in The Phantom Menace was created by working an electric razor round a steel salad bowl after which digitally reducing the pitch.
326. To design the U-wing for Rogue One, 781 different drawings were done by Doug Chiang‘s idea design workforce earlier than they selected the ultimate model.
327. Phantom Menace was the primary Star Wars movie to be launched on DVD and regardless of ‘fan hate’ it was an enormous vendor.
328. Rogue One Director Gareth Edwards has a cameo in his movie as a Insurgent on the Tantive IV. He is the one which frees the ship to permit it to flee Darth Vader.
329. The planet title “Coruscant” was initially utilized by writer Timothy Zahn in his Thrawn Trilogy. George Lucas was going to incorporate the capital world of Had Abbadon in Return of the Jedi, however adopted writer Timothy Zahn’s title for the Imperial Heart from the Thrawn books when presenting the planet within the Particular Version and prequel motion pictures.
330. Solo was the primary live-action Star Wars movie to not embrace R2D2 or C-3PO
331. Phasma’s armour design was initially an idea concept consideration for the Kylo Ren character.
332. The ship often known as ‘The Ghost’ from the tv present Rebels makes an look within the ultimate Insurgent assault on Scariff Base in Rogue One.
333. In Solo, Mom Proxima is a White Worm. Her title is taken from the Bram Stoker guide, The Lair of the White Worm.
334. The sound impact when Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber is kicked down the reactor shaft within the climactic battle with Darth Maul is identical sound impact heard when Luke Skywalker throws his lightsaber away in Return of the Jedi. You realize, when he tells the Emperor that he’s a Jedi, like his father earlier than him!
335. In The Power Awakens when Han Solo calls out to Kylo Ren utilizing his actual title of Ben, this can be a direct reference to Obi-Wan Kenobi for he was often known as Outdated Ben throughout his time on Tatooine as he appeared over Luke.
336. Leia’s character has her personal musical theme titled “Princess Leia’s Theme”. It’s represented by the musical leitmotif technique which is famously used throughout the movies. The piece was composed by John Williams and was used a number of occasions. It first appeared in A New Hope, heard when Princess Leia is captured by the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader. Later, it surfaces as R2-D2 performs her holographic message to Obi-Wan Kenobi. The additionally theme performs when Kenobi is killed by Vader and it makes an look within the credit of the film. It is also used within the two observe up motion pictures and the Revenge of the Sith prequel when her adoptive father Bail Organa introduces her to her adoptive mom.
337. Anakin Skywalker actually is the ‘Chosen one’. Whereas Yoda and Mace Windu might have thought a mistake had been made within the studying of the prophecy, Anakin was the one who really killed Sith Lord Palpatine by throwing him down the Loss of life Star’s reactor shaft in Jedi and thus restored stability to the Power.
338. The Final Jedi’s ‘iron’ ship fakeout scene is a nod to ‘Hardwear Wars’, a brief movie which was one of many unique parodies of Star Wars that got here out in 1978.
339. The Millennium Falcon is spied landing on Coruscant in Revenge of the Sith. This was previous to Lando or Han Solo proudly owning it!
340. Nick Nolte auditioned for the position of Han Solo.
341. Within the Solo movie, there was a fourth member of Beckett’s workforce known as Korso however the character was reduce within the enhancing room. You possibly can really see just a few photographs of him within the Mimban sequences. Korso was to be killed early on in order that Becket would see worth in changing him with Chewbacca.
342. That dude within the Insurgent Base to which Han Solo retorts, “Then I will see you in Hell!”? simply earlier than he heads out to discover a sure lacking Jedi? That is Cliff Clavin from the TV sitcom Cheers and the Pixar motion pictures AKA John Ratzenberger.
343. Princess Leia by no means really will get to ‘meet’ Obi-Wan Kenobi. She sees him from afar when she’s escaping the Loss of life Star and Obi-Wan is about to let Darth Vader kill him however that is it. Except you depend Obi-Wan being current for her start in Revenge of the Sith…
344. Cara Dune is the unhealthy ass Insurgent Shock Trooper that offers Mando some grief earlier than teaming as much as save the fishing village by bringing down the AT-ST. Performed by Lifeless Pool actress Gina Carano, we suspect the character’s title is a play on Carano’s final title and a refined to reference to the Dune novel which had a massive influence on the original scripting of A New Hope.
345. When Han is caught within the mud throughout his first encounter with Chewie in Solo, his pose is similar to the certainly one of him within the frozen block of carbonite in The Empire Strikes Again.
346. Frank Oz who’s the voice for probably the most well-known little inexperienced man in cinema historical past, Yoda was additionally the voice of the Muppet’s Miss Piggy. It was due to his skills that he developed with Jim Henson that noticed him get the decision up. He additionally did the puppetry.
347. George Lucas made his first and only Star Wars cameo in Revenge of the Sith. He dressed as a Pantoran senator, Baron Papanoida. You won’t have acknowledged him as he all dressed up in blue physique paint! His daughter additionally cameoed with him on the identical time.
348. The so-called Tusken Raiders or sand folks of Tatooine are the precise natives of the planet. The Jawa, Hutts, and People all got here after.
349. The Hammerhead Corvette used within the Battle of Scarif to smash one Imperial Stars Destroyer into the opposite was an concept taken the basic online game, Knights of the Old Republic. It was additionally seen in season two of Star Wars: Rebels.
350. Within the unique drafts of Star Wars, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker have been positively totally different folks – it wasn’t till the event of the script for The Empire Strikes Again that the 2 have been mixed as one character. This implies Darth Vader doesn’t imply Darkish Father and the name was not a hint as to Luke’s parentage.
351. Each Clone Trooper in Revenge of the Sith is a creation of CGI wizardry. No clone costumes or helmets have been manufactured for filming.
352. “May the Force Be with you” has been stated 16 occasions within the movies.
353. Harrison Ford famously was by no means supposed to be Han Solo, he was simply hanging round after American Graffitti and was serving to different actors learn their traces as Lucas was within the casting course of. Finally, Lucas wised up and realised Harrison already had the half down chilly.
354. The blue haired slave lady that may be noticed beside Jabba the Hutt earlier than the pod race wears the identical slave costume worn by Princess Leia in The Return of the Jedi.
355. Qui-Gon Jinn’s communicator is a repurposed Gillette Sensor Excel Razor for Women.
356. The Wizard of Oz has had a bigger influence on Star Wars than most individuals might realised.
357. The font of the open crawl is known as Franklin Gothic.
358. When you ever puzzled why Star Wars films feature so many English actors it’s as a result of most of the movies the place made on the Pine Wooden Studios units – which means casting of supporting actors in UK was cheaper than delivery them out from the US.
359. Natalie Portman‘s voice was digitally altered to additional distinguish between Padmé and Queen Amidala to confuse the viewers who might haven’t picked the misleading ploy. As well as, on the time of the movie’s launch, the producers ran a disinformation marketing campaign to recommend that Portman performed each Padmé and The Queen always.
360. The pod race scene was instantly impressed by the chariot race in Ben Hur and featured a number of moments that matched second for second.
361. The Guns of Navarone inspired the Death Star attack on the Yavin base climax.
362. George Lucas funded the manufacturing prices of The Empire Strikes Again by himself to the tune of $33 million thus making it probably the most profitable ‘unbiased’ movies of all time.
363. Return of the Jedi’s Ewoks have been initially supposed to be a tribe of Wookie, nevertheless, it was finally realized that given Chewbacca may fly the Millennium Falcon, Wookie weren’t so primitive and thus your complete plot of the Ewok assault on the Protect generator would have appeared a nonsense. The Ewoks thus got here into play for that reason – and in addition apparently it was thought quite a lot of kiddie pleasant Ewok teddy bears and related merchandise might be bought. You saw Caravan of Courage right? The Wookie have been finally seen on their house planet of Kashyyyk in Revenge of the Sith.
364. The three pit droid models that the Mando offers grief to when he lands at Mos Eisely are the identical variety as that featured in The Phantom Menace through the pod racing scenes. They’re impressed by The Three Stooges.
365. The story of Star Wars is informed from the standpoint of R2D2 and C3PO – this was impressed from the Japanese film The Hidden Fortress the place the story was delivered by two bumbling peasants. Certainly, that movie directed by Akira Kurosawa has had an enormous affect on the story.
366. The primary view of Mos Eisley in Star Wars the place Obi-Wan delivers his well-known quote about it being a spot of villainy and scum, is was shot from a spot known as Death Valley in California from what is called Dante’s View. with a matte portray added within the distance to create the visible.
367. The true-world areas for locations round Mos Eisley have been filmed in Tunisia
368. Rogue One units up how Luke finally will get the decision signal ‘Rogue-5’. The Authentic Pink 5, Pedrin Gaul, was killed through the battle over Scarif, which means that when Luke will get concerned with the Insurgent assault on the Loss of life Star, he takes up the emptiness in Pink Squad.
369. Throughout Revenge of the Sith Bail Organa and Yoda step into the hallway of Organa’s ship and have a pleasant dialog about changing into rebels or one thing. It is the identical ship that Darth Vader boards to seize Princess Leia Organa within the begin of A New Hope.
370. Within the Mandalorian, a number of the elements the “Off World Jawa” may be seen to be holding having taken them from the Razor Crest are Volkswagen gasoline injection rails.
371. The well-known Catina the place our heroes met Han Solo in ANH is definitely known as Chalmun’s Cantina. Components of it have been finally recycled and made into the robotic that change into IG-88 in The Empire Strikes Again:
     
372. Ralph McQuarrie designed C3PO by taking liberty with the Maschinenmensch design from the basic 1927 movie Metropolis. Robby the Robot additionally was an inspiration for the protocol droid facet.
373. Carrie Fisher needed to stand on a field for many of her scenes with Harrison Ford within the unique Star Wars movies as a result of she is a foot shorter than him. This was finished so the actors would look higher within the body shot collectively.
374. Everybody assumes Luke solely appeared within the three unique Star Wars movies. Give it some thought for a second and also you’ll realise Skywalker seems as a child on the finish of Revenge of the Sith. He, in fact, appeared for 30 seconds in The Power Awakens and The Final Jedi making it 6 movie appearances. Will we see Luke in Episode IX?
375. R2D2 had a wee moment in Star Trek Into Darkness the place he was spied being flung into area in an explosion. This additionally occurred in Abram’s first Star Trek film. How did this occur? A sure firm known as ILM might have finished the particular results CGI on each movies!
376. Opposite to standard perception, the town the place Qui-Gon discovers a younger Anakin will not be the well-known spaceport of Mos Eisley, however a special place known as Mos Espa. Qui-Gon’s description of Mos Espa is nearly the identical, if not the identical phrase for phrase, as Obi-Wan’s description of Mos Eisley throughout A New Hope.
377. The orange doll that Rey has usual in her dwelling abode in The Power Awakens may be very harking back to the fits worn by the insurgent pilots in A New Hope.
378. After Padme dies in Revenge of the Sith, she is returned to her house planet of Naboo for burial – her physique has been altered to make it appear as if she was nonetheless pregnant – that is all a part of the deception of to maintain the existence of Leia and Luke a secret.
379. Within the trailer for TFA, when coming into Maz Kanata’s citadel, our heroes observe a big array of flags. A lot of them check with the pod racing flags that racers like Sebulba and Anakin flew in The Phantom Menace. The Mandalore flag which is a hyperlink to Boba Fett as nicely. Many of those have been faraway from the ultimate model of the movie.
380. It is a delusion that George Lucas had 12 movies all mapped out earlier than the primary Star Wars was launched. That’s the legend however the mythology of it has grown over time. The nutshell is that Lucas wrote quite a lot of materials when he was creating his little sci-fi journey. Based mostly round a so-called “Journal of Whills”, Lucas script finally was reduce up and Star Wars as we all know it was filmed. It was not till Empire Strikes Again got here out that the time period Episode 5 was talked about formally. Lucas’s grand imaginative and prescient was really pieced together over several years in very broad strokes. The 12 or 9 movies as most individuals know of have been by no means totally scripted however have been largely imaginings of Lucas that have been finally firmly realized nicely after 1977
381. The robotic ‘Chopper’ from Star Wars: Rebels may be seen motoring round within the Yavin base scene in Rogue One.
382. Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa was a major influence on George Lucas and his concepts for his movies.
383. R2D2 is taller than the Ewok ‘Wicket’ from ROTJ.
384. George Luca’s unique Star Wars draft took quite a lot of inspiration from a movie known as The Hidden Fortress. It featured a pair of bickering sidekicks who served as comedian reduction and crucially managed to assist hold the plot ticking alongside. Lucas adopted this idea and utilized it to the robots.
385. Lots of people miss it, pondering the C3PO is completely a ‘golden rod’ however his proper leg is definitely silver from beneath the knee joint. In The Power Awakens he had a pink arm for a time however on the finish of the film has gone again to what we presume was the unique gold.
386. Phantom Menace is the one movie within the sequence through which the top-credited actor performs a non-recurring character, and through which the top-credited character dies.
387. Each single Clone Trooper in Revenge of the Sith is a creation of gifted CGI designers. No clone costumes or helmets have been manufactured for filming.
388. The title “Qui-Gon” derives from an historical Chinese language system of different drugs known as “Qigong”. The phrase “Jinn” refers back to the “Djinn” one of many so-called genies of Arabian delusion.
389. The cube that have been first featured in The Final Jedi have been initially really filmed in The Power Awakens however have been reduce from the movie. Within the Solo film, they’re first seen once more when Han locations them in his escape vessel.
390. In Batman v Superman, Luthor’s jail uniform reads’16-TK421’. A part of this quantity is identical because the Stormtrooper that was requested why he wasn’t at his publish in A New Hope.
391. Within the Power Awakens, as BB-Eight does some rolling to flee the TIE assault, two podracers may be spied within the background, a nod to The Phantom Menace.
392. Whereas the character’s helment offers him a 360 view, in actuality the actor who performed Fett, Jeremy Bulloch may hardly see from underneath the helmet whereas filming!
393. Boba’s face has by no means been proven. Paging Choose Dredd!
394. Legend has it that George Lucas was contemplating making Fett have a much bigger position as an antagonist in Return of the Jedi nevertheless issues clearly performed out in a different way in the long run!
395. The enduring design of Boba Fett’s armor is broadly credited to Joe Johnston, who labored as an idea artist on Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi. You would possibly recognise Johnston because the director of Captain America: The First Avenger.
396. Fett’s well-known braid is seemingly product of the scalps of Wookie.
397. Nobody is aware of the actual cause his helmet has a spherical bump on the highest!
398. Captain Phasma wears a black cape with pink trim, the colors of the First Order. Provided that Phasma was impressed by the Boba Fett character it is no shock she has a cape as the unique concept for Fett was to have him put on a cape / poncho within the type of The Man with no Title from Clint Eastward’s Spaghetti Westerns.
399. Jeremy Bulloch cameod as Jeremoch Colton, the captain of the Sundered Coronary heart in Revenge of the Sith. He drove the Correlian Corvette on the finish of the film:
400. After an additional fell sick through the filming of TESB, Jeremy Bulloch was known as in as a substitute to the Imperial Guard who escorts Princess Leia and pulls her into the elevator after she screams “Luke! It is a entice!”. Meaning Bulloch has had three elements within the Star Wars movies throughout three motion pictures.
401. Thor: Ragnarok director Taikia Waiatiti voiced the IG killer robotic murderer in The Mandalorian.
402. When you requested the common Star Wars fan what was Leia’s house world, they might be appropriate in answering the planet Alderraan they usually may go to the pinnacle of the category. When you requested probably the most onerous core fan, they may additionally rapidly add that Leia and Luke have been really born at a medical facility on Polissa Massa – if you happen to’ve seen Revenge of the Sith you would possibly recall that’s the place Obi-Wan Kenobi took the injured Padme for medical help.
403. The primary and fairly well-known for it, Jeremy Bulloch, from the Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi. Bulloch not too long ago retired from the conference circuit. We predict he is earned a good break!
404. Fett’s title is just talked about for the primary time in Return of the Jedi when Han asks the place he’s
405. Daniel Logan performed the younger model of Boba within the Assault of the Clones prequel and the voice of the animated Boba within the three-part Season Two finale and in Season 4 of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars tv sequence. Logan milks his position on the conference circuit as a lot as he can!
406. Boba Fett’s motion determine was initially supposed to have had a rocket-firing mechanism, however after a baby choked to demise on an analogous toy, the Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica (1978), Kenner dropped the mechanism and made the rocket stationary
407. Dickey Beer, was a stunt performer in Return of the Jedi. This concerned the work within the Sarlacc Pit scene and Fett flying into the facet of Jabba’s Sail Barge.
408. Jason Wingreen was the uncredited voice of Boba Fett and claims he was by no means paid for his work by George Lucas.
409. John Morton as Boba did a fast flip in a Cloud Metropolis scene in The Empire Strikes Again.
410. Temuera Morrison performed the daddy of Boba, Jango Fett in Assault of the Clones. He is the dude who purchased a gun to a lightsaber struggle with Mace Windu! To be honest, Jango’s Jet Pack misfired which means he had no probability of defending himself by escaping Mace’s purple energy pulping machine!
411. Dryden Vos has a set of Mandalorian Battle Armor in his assortment on his yacht within the Solo movie. This is identical type of armor made well-known by bounty hunter Boba Fett. 
412. Boba Fett was added to A New Hope Particular Version by George Lucas. He appeared within the scene in which Jabba the Hutt was added.
413. When the DVD of the Empire Strikes Again was launched in 2004, Temuera Morrison re-did the voice for the character so as to add a brand new consistency given he was Jango Fett and Boba was his clone – stands to cause they might have the identical voice. leased in 2004, Tem Morrison re-did the voice for the character so as to add a brand new consistency given he was Jango Fett and Boba was his clone – stands to cause they might have the identical voice.
414. Five different people have played Fett in the movies, six if you happen to depend Morrison doing the TESB voice over.
415. Boba was first proven within the tv film, often known as the Holiday Special. He featured in a cartoon section however his first public look was in a parade:
416. Blue Harvest was the working / filming title of Return of the Jedi.
417. Grand Moff Tarkin performs a very small cameo in Revenge of the Sith. He steps out from facet to seek advice from the Emperor and Vader.
418. The guide ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye’ was commissioned by Lucas as a possible sequel to Star Wars. The parable is that the novel was written primarily based on a script written by George Lucas. There was no written script in any respect – Alan Dean Foster was writing the novelization of Star Wars and in addition the second guide. He was as merely instructed by Lucas to jot down the guide primarily based on some concepts and movie remedies that George threw at him.Lucas may then flip it into a movie script down the road if he so selected. The truth is that when Star Wars ‘went world’ Lucas modified gears and the sequel script was first drafted by Leigh Bracket, which after her demise from most cancers, Lucas refined additional with assist from Lawrence Kasdan.
419. Chewbacca does not say a phrase of English in any of the movies he’s been in.
420. Admiral Thrawn’s look in season three of Star Wars Rebels marks the primary event that an prolonged universe character has been positioned within the new formal Star Wars Canon. We imagine that the second character to do get this type of therapy was Saw in Rogue One going from Clones to the Large Display.
421. Thrawn’s species is ‘Chiss’. All Chiss are human like of their bodily look, save the blue pores and skin and pink eyes.
422. The title “Coruscant” was initially utilized by Timothy Zahn. George Lucas was going to incorporate the capital world of Had Abbadon in Return of the Jedi, however adopted Zahn’s title for Imperial Heart when presenting the planet within the Particular Version and prequel motion pictures.
423. Zahn has stated that Thrawn’s character is a composite of assorted historic and fictional personalities, together with Erwin Rommel, Robert E. Lee, Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Nice, and Sherlock Holmes. A few of these names are the best army leaders of historical past.
424. The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski credit the Thrawn trilogy with reigniting most people’s curiosity with the Star Wars franchise.
425. In Solo, the dude that L337 harangues when the droids are doing a cage struggle? That is director Ron Howard’s brother, Clint Howard doing a cameo.
426. The Power Awakens’ Captain Phasma‘s ultimate armour ‘look’ was at one time a conceptual design for Kylo Ren. Phasma wears a black cape with pink trim, the colors of the First Order. Provided that Phasma was impressed by the Boba Fett character it is no shock she has a cape as the unique concept for Fett was to have him put on a cape / poncho within the type of The Man with no Name from Clint Eastward’s Spaghetti Westerns. Phasma’s chrome armour is claimed to be taken from an area yacht constructed on the planet Naboo that Palpatine owned. The go well with is thus in a position to repel radiation nevertheless Phasma used the recycled chrome as a logo of would possibly and energy.
427. Denis Lawson who famously performed X-Wing pilot Wedge is the real life uncle of Ewan McGregor who performed Obi Wan Kenobi within the prequel movies!
     
428. The sensible wizard Gandalf from Lord of the Rings was a huge influence on the character of Obi Wan Kenobi – a lot in order that an early draft of the Star Wars script featured traces cribbed instantly from the pages of Tolkien! For the Phantom Menace, an early concept that George Lucas had was for Qui-Gon Jinn to have lengthy white hair. In hindsight that was a sensible selection because it sounds that might have been an excessive amount of like Gandalf the White.
429. In The Power Awakens, nobody loses a limb on display, a primary for a Star Wars movie. Given the franchise’s long tradition of characters losing limbs, The Power Awakens was the primary Star Wars film the place nobody loses an arm. Within the novelisation of the movie there’s a scene the place Ankar Plutt arrives at Maz Kanata’s citadel to retrieve the stolen Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca intervenes when Plutt accosts Rey and rips his arm off. The scene was filmed however reduce for the ultimate edit. The scene was launched with the DVD/BLU Ray.
430. Captain Phasma’s chrome armour costume is claimed to be taken from an area yacht constructed on the planet Naboo that Sith Lord Palpatine as soon as owned. The go well with is thus in a position to repel radiation nevertheless Phasma used the recycled chrome as a logo of would possibly and energy and to intimidate.
431. The primary view of Mos Eisley in Star Wars the place Obi Wan delivers his well-known quote about it being a spot of villany and scum, is was shot from a spot known as Death Valley in California from what is called Dante’s View. with a matte portray added within the distance to create the visible.
432. The title of the well-known cantina is Chalmun’s Cantina. A well-known hang-out of freighter pilots and a bunch of different harmful characters it’s the place Han shot Greedo first and the place Obi Wan cut off Ponda Baba’s arm.
433. In 1974, the not but well-known director Steven Spielberg approached Williams to compose the music for his characteristic directorial debut, The Sugarland Express. They teamed up once more a 12 months later for Spielberg’s second movie, Jaws. This success led to Spielberg recommending Williams’ providers as a composer to George Lucas, who wanted a composer to attain Star Wars. The remaining is historical past.
434. Speilberg and Lucas swapped some points on Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind on account of Lucas’s concern he had made a field workplace flop. Lucas was famously incorrect and Speilberg made a fortune from the change.
435. Speilberg really gave Lucas quite a lot of recommendation on the enhancing of the movie.
436. He was even a second unit director on Revenge of the Sith.
437. Orson Krennic’s title is probably a reference to Orson Welles.
438. In The Mandalorian present, the Mando returns to this Canatina when he meets Toro Calican. He’s sitting posed like Han Solo was in ANH along with his legs up on the desk.
439. Regardless of being probably the most well-known and well-known villains within the historical past of film making, Darth Vader actually has only 12 minutes of screen time in A New Hope! That is 4 minutes lower than the display time of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs – and Anthony Hopkins obtained an Oscar for the half! What an impression Vader has had.
440. David Lynch was provided the prospect to direct Return of the Jedi however turned it down. Are you able to think about how loopy Jedi may have turned out if Lynch had forged his magic over the movie? Lynch really selected Dune as his subsequent movie, and whereas it wasn’t an incredible movie, it has gone on to earn its place in movie historical past. It was additionally most likely simply as nicely that Sting did not have a job in Jedi both…..
441. Rogue One is the primary Star Wars film the place the title of the film is claimed. Bodhi Rook says it, confirming the title of the movie is a call sign.
442. Everybody assumes Luke solely appeared within the three unique Star Wars movies. Take into consideration if for a second and also you’ll realise Skywalker seems a child on the finish of Revenge of the Sith following Padme Amidala giving start to him and Leia on the medical facility on Poliss Massa.
443. Within the unique drafts of Star Wars, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker have been positively totally different folks – it wasn’t till the event of the Empire therapy that the 2 have been mixed as one character.
444. The sound impact when Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber is kicked down the reactor shaft within the climatic battle with Darth Maul, is identical sound impact heard when Luke Skywalker throws his lightsaber away in Return of the Jedi when he tells the Emperor that he’s a Jedi, like his father earlier than him!
445. In Solo, did you see the cube in Han’s land speeder? They’re those that make it on to the Falcon. They change into a minor plot level in The Final Jedi and may be seen a deleted scene of The Power Awakens.
446. The image of the Insurgent Alliance is known as the “Starbird” and is typically described as a rising Phoenix. It was adopted in recognition of the work Galen Marek did in serving to discovered the Alliance. It was initially the Marek household’s emblem. This title should not be confused with Galen from Rogue One. This most likely means the unique reasoning for this alliance image is now not canon however till George Lucas personally calls me on this level, it is staying.
447. When Lando and Becket discuss how Beckett killed Aurra Sing, they’re making a reference to the character that may be briefly glimpsed in The Phantom Menace. Aurra Sing featured in The Clone Wars present.
448. In Solo, Lando muses that ‘mining colonies are the worst’ it is a joke to the viewers about the place Lando finally ends up because the Administrator of 1 in The Empire Strikes Again.
449. Solo is the primary Star Wars movie the place R2D2 and C3PO don’t present up. Anthony Daniels does nevertheless do a cameo within the Spice Mines scenes, taking part in Sagwa, one of many Wookies that Chewie saves.
450. In TLJ When Luke raps Rey over the knuckles with the plant, that is a name again to when Yoda educated Luke in Empire.
451. Fantasy – Lucas had 12 movies all mapped out earlier than the primary Star Wars was launched. That’s the legend however the mythology of it has grown over time. The nutshell is that Lucas wrote quite a lot of materials when he was creating his little sci-fi journey. Based mostly across the so known as “Journal of Whills”, Lucas script finally was reduce up and Star Wars as we all know it was filmed. It was not till Empire Strikes Again got here out that the time period Episode 5 was talked about formally. Lucas’s grand imaginative and prescient was really pieced together over several years in very broad strokes. The 12 or 9 movies as most individuals know of have been by no means totally scripted however have been largely imaginings of Lucas that have been finally firmly realized nicely after 1977.
452. The Mandalorian sequence was largely is written by Iron Man veteran Jon Favreau. His prior connection to the Star Wars universe was voicing the character Pre Vizsla on Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
453. The Mandalorian’s rifle was inspired by the rifle that Boba Fett had on his individual within the animation section of notorious The Star Wars Holiday Special.
454. The dude frozen in carbonite on the finish of the road of blocks in Episode One is Moralo Eval who was featured in The Clone Wars.
455. Disney canceled the unwell fated Josh Trank directed Bobba Fett characteristic movie in favour of The Mandalorian
456. The creature of the identical species as Yoda that’s ‘rescued’ by the Mandalorian represents the third time such a creature has been spied in a Star Wars characteristic – Yoda in fact, and Yaddle from the unique model of The Power Awakens and now ‘Child Yoda’.
457. Mandalorian Lead actor Pedro Pascal was the thirteenth actor from Sport of Thrones to seem within the Star Wars franchise.
458. Producer Jon Favreau gave Pascal the esteemed movies of director Akira Kurosawa to look at earlier than filming started. Kurosawa’s movies impressed George Lucas’s unique script for A New Hope.
459. Author and producer Jon Favreau had written 4 of the scripts for The Mandalorian earlier than he even had a deal to make the present!
460. The reference to Life Day within the Mandalorian is the second ‘new canon’ reference to the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special television movie – the identical one which Boba Fett first appeared in. The opposite reference was within the Solo film where we learned Chewbacca’s father’s name.
461. In episode 1 of The Mandalorian, The Large Bang Concept’s Brian Posehn performs the snowbound speeder Lyft driver who will get eaten by the ice creature.
462. R1 Character ‘Saw Gerrera‘ initially featured in Star Wars: Clone Wars tv present. Gerrera is performed by Oscar winner, Forrest Whitaker.
463. In S1E2 – when the Jawa drops the merchandise on Mando’s head – a particular bell clanging sound is heard – this can be a straight carry from the basic Looney Tunes type of comedy when a dropped anvil hits somebody’s head.
464. In Rogue One, Genevieve O’Reilly reprised her position as Mon Mothma, whom she beforehand performed in Revenge of the Sith. You won’t realize it although as her scenes have been reduce! You will discover them on the DVD and Youtube.
465. Garry Whitta filmed a cameo as a pilot for R1 however his second was reduce.
466. Episode four of The Mandalorian was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard – star of the Jurassic Park remakes and the daughter of Ron Howards – who directed the Solo film.
467. The container through which the Imperial Metal is held (known as a Contomo) is definitely the identical because the notorious ‘ice-cream maker’ that was carried through the evacuation of Cloud Metropolis in The Empire Strikes Again:
468. The Mandolorian’s pistol weapon is modeled on a Bergmann pistol.
469. In the identical vein, the joystick within the Razor Crest is a generally used Thrustmaster joystick.
470. Mando > Season One: Episode four: Sanctuary is principally one big reference to The Magnificent Seven and the movie that impressed it, The Seven Samurai. That is basic Star Wars – many Western movies have impressed the previous movies (John Wayne ‘s cowboy in The Searchers for instance) and the Mandalorian will not be brief on positioning itself as a Western.
471. Bossk’s go well with from Empire was a excessive stress go well with utilized by RAF pilots.
472. In Empire, earlier than Darth Vader’s arrival, there was to be a Wampa Assault on the Hoth Insurgent base. Certainly, a cutscene that was reference in Empire’s trailer featured C3PO eradicating an indication from a door which he hoped Imperial troops would enter and are available nose to nose with captured Wampa.
473. The Hoth scenes of that film have been really shot in Norway.
474. Empire was the primary film to have a quantity by its title within the opening credit – V. The unique Star Warfare was not known as A New Hope or Episode four, this came later.
475. C3PO’s most famous quote is probably “I recommend a brand new technique, Artoo: let the Wookie win.” which just about speaks for itself! As a facet word, that recreation between Chewbacca and R2D2 was by no means completed. When Finn bumps the desk in The Power Awakens, it is the identical recreation of Dejarik from A New Hope! That recreation can be referenced within the Han Solo movie.
476. When Obi-Wan finds Basic Grievous on the planet Utapau, his first phrases are, “Hey, there.” That is precisely what stated when he first met R2-D2 in ANH. It is now a well-known web meme…
477. Harrison Ford’s ex-wife, Melissa Mathison, wrote the script for the Speilberg movie “E.T. the Further-Terrestrial”.
478. The award Han and Luke obtain on the finish of Star Wars is known as the Alderaanian Medal of Freedom. Which is sweet as they’re on the planet Yavin…. (as a result of they can not be on Alderaan. Which makes me marvel the place they obtained sufficient official medals from…).
479. Behind the manufacturing scenes, Wedge’s character has been a bit far and wide. Within the unique movie, Antilles was performed by two British actors: Colin Higgins and Denis Lawson, nevertheless, they vocal contributions have been non-existent as they have been each dubbed with the voice of American David Ankrum! Legend has it that Higgins had not discovered his traces (the unique script had greater than was featured within the film) and so he was fired and changed by Lawson.
480. Enjoyable truth: Anthony Daniels voiced Legolas in Ralph Bakshi’s animated film version of The Lord of the Rings.
481. In Star Wars Episode II: Assault of the Clones, Qui-Gon Jinn’s voice is heard shouting “Anakin! Anakin!” passing by way of the Power when grasp Yoda senses wayward Anakin Skywalker’s slaughter of the Tuskens. The novelization of the movie narrates that is the primary time that Yoda encounters a Jedi’s spirit who has handed into the Power. Close to the top of Revenge of the Sith Yoda reveals to Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon has “returned from the netherworld of the Power” to show them tips on how to change into one with the Power. Yoda and Obi-Wan obtain this coaching throughout their exile on the planets of Dagobah and Tatooine.
482. Rogue One’s working title was ‘Los Alamos’.
483. Yoda was not initially supposed to be in Return of the Jedi, however he was added after session with youngster psychologists helped George Lucas resolve he wanted an unbiased character to verify Darth Vader’s declare that he’s Luke Skywalker’s father. Now you already know why Yoda does not do a lot for the remainder of the film. That and the actual fact he died of outdated age.
484. Ben Kingsley, who performed the title position within the 1982 film Gandhi, learn for the position of Emperor Palpatine and “was thought of ‘very English.’ That stated, Palpatine was finally performed be Englishman Ian McDiarmid… there is a reason why so many English actors are in Star Wars.
485. There is a actually cool connection to the basic sci-fi movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. That movie’s alien character was known as Klaatu. In Jedi, the mechanic on Jabba’s sail barge is known as the identical as tribute to the movie.
486. Visible results legend John Knoll got here up with the story for Rogue One. He pitched it to Kathleen Kennedy and the remaining is historical past.
487. Rogue One’s first draft was Garry Whitta. Screenwriter and director Christopher McQuarrie did a two week move on the script publish Whitta’s effort. McQuarrie is finest recognized for profitable an Oscar for scripting The Usual Suspects and has had a powerful profession since so his involvement is notable. Then Tony Gilroy got here in and rewrote and reshot the ending, saving the film.
488. Given Gilroy’s rescue job, he’s been given a shot at helming the Cassian Andor’s spin off present.
489. A New Hope won six Academy Awards.
490. Lucas was nominated for Finest Director however didn’t win the Oscar.
491. Empire solely gained one for Finest Sound.
492. Tony Gilroy is the voice questioning Bodhi Rook on the U-Wing, which led to the pilot arising with the decision signal “Rogue One”.
493. Treat Williams has a small cameo in The Empire Strikes Again – he’s in a Hoth scene.
494. How did Captain Phasma get her title? The Power Awakens’ director JJ Abrams named Phasma due to the wonderful chrome design that got here from Michael Kaplan’s wardrobe design workforce. It reminded him of the murderous silver ball within the movie Phantasm.
495. Leia kissed Han Solo 8 times throughout the movie saga.
496. The well-known poster for The Empire Strikes Again which was modeled on Gone With the Wind:
497. .Carrie Fisher did a Play Boy magazine article the place she mused Darth Vader may be homosexual…
498. In A New Hope, Leia knew they have been being tracked – she was betting the farm they could do something with the stolen plans.
499. In Return of the Jedi, Luke wears quite a lot of black clothes – that is to assist recommend he’s heading down in the direction of the darkish facet of the Power. As soon as, he’s bested his father and introduced he’s a Jedi, like his father – we see underneath his costume is white – signaling that beneath his stresses, Luke was all the time the great man.
500. Carrie Fisher closed out three Star Wars films with Princess Leia saying the last line.
501. The bounty hunter dropping her arm at first of Clones mirrors the Wampa dropping his arm originally of Empire – each moments serve to foreshadow Luke and Anakin Skywalker every dropping a limb their respective movie.
502. When Luke is projecting himself to Crait from the Island within the Final Jedi there are two clues for the viewer to know this. The primary is his beard is brown and he seems youthful – this is identical look as when he final noticed Kylo Ren on the ‘Jedi Acadmey’. The second clue is whereas Kylo’s toes have been disturbing the pink salt through the confrontation, when Luke walked over it, no pink salt was disturbed. You could possibly additionally argue that truth there was a brief shut up of Luke’ X-Wing rusting away underwater was an indication he could not have traveled by way of area to Crait.
503. HAN. SHOT. FIRST.

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