100 Facts about Star Wars

71. The original landspeeder from STAR WARS was repainted green and can be seen in the establishing shot of Mos Espa in THE PHANTOM MENACE.

72 - The Millennium Falcon's targeting readout was inspired by a paperweight Lucas had once seen on Arthur C Clarke's desk.
73 - Contrary to popular belief, Slave One was NOT inspired by a streetlamp outside ILM.

74. Chewbacca was based on Lucas's dog Indiana.

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75 - the word Wookiee was improvised by Terry McGovern while working on THX 1138. he made a blunder and exclaimed, "I think I ran over a wookiee back there." Lucas liked the word and kept it in mind.

76. Han was originally a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills, and Luke, Owen and Beru were originally midgets...

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77 - Some of the more bizarre ideas from the first draft of the ESB script included: Vader going into a retreat to his deep lava cave with pet gargoyles and demons; Lando being a Clone who survived the Clone Wars and, when 3PO is "smashed" on the Cloud City, Vader out takes his robotic heart and crushes it.

78. The idea to give Darth Vader a breathing apparatus was artist Ralph McQuarrie's. The idea was that Vader would need it in order to travel from one space ship to another.

79. Also seen in early McQuarrie art, Laserswords were originally thought to be more widely used, even by Stormtroopers.

80. Industrial Light and Magic was Hollywood's first special effects house, set up independent of studio hire.

peter serafinowich of shaun of the dead and look around you as well as several other british comedies done the voice over for darth maul

82. Kenny Baker was originally cast as Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi but when he got food poisoning the role was given to Warwick Davis.

83. "Yoda" is derived from the Sanskrit word for "warrior."

84. James Earl Jones requested that he not be credited for supplying the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars. At the time, he said he felt he had not done enough work to get the billing, but he later admitted that he didn't want his name associated with the film because he was still an up-and-coming actor, and didn't want to be typecast.

85. James Earl Jones and David Prowse have never met.

86. The original teaser was narrated by Orson Welles, who was the original choice to do the voice of Darth Vader.

87. George Lucas campaigned to get Frank Oz a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Empire Strikes Back but was rejected as the Academy didn't consider a puppeteer an actor.

88. The Empire Strikes Back is the only Star Wars film to not include a visit to Tatooine.

89. you can see a wookiee/wookiees in all the films, except Attack of the Clones (yes, there are wookiees in The Phantom Menace 😉)

90 - The THX sound system actually has nothing to do with Lucas' first film THX 1138, it is merely an acronym for Tom Hollman Experiment, the person who developed the system. Much to Hollman's chagrin, Lucas has done little to deflate the fortuitous connection between the system's name and his first film.

^ Really? I didn't know that... well there's a useless piece of information if ever I saw one. A good useless piece of information... 😉

91. The planet name 'Coruscant' was created by author Timothy Zahn in May 1991 for his book Heir to The Empire. Lucas liked the name and included shots of Coruscant, the Imperial Capital, in the end montage of Return of the Jedi in the '97 'Special Edition'.

92. Princess Leia is a great shot... she almost never misses. This is probably something she inherited from her mother, Padme, who also almost never misses.

93: during the filming in norway for ESB, they had the worst weather there for over 10 years (cant remember the exact number)

94: The word "lightsaber" is never mentioned in TPM. Anakin called it a "Lasersword"