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100 Facts about Star Wars
Saw this on Star Wars.com and its working out well... Post a well known fact and lets see how far we can get...
1. On the long weekend, ROTS grossed 70.1 Million.
2. Star Wars has made over 3.5 Billion dollars.
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3. Original came out in 1977.
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4.- So far...the best saga in the history of cinema
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5. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader has been played by six different people: David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Bob Anderson (duelist), Sebastian Shaw, Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen.
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6. "I've got a bad feeling about this" is spoken in every movie (or some variation)
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7.Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader never saw that coming jk
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8.- The only characters that appear in all the films are C3PO and R2D2
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9. The original Star Wars, A New Hope, is still the highest grossing Star Wars Film.
10. It is the second highest grossing film of all time in the US.
11. It is also the second highest grossing film of all time in the US if you adjust for ticket price inflation (right behind Gone With The Wind)
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
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12.- The real mastermind of evil is not Darth Vader, but its master, Darth Sidious
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13. During The Empire Strikes Back's famous asteroid scene, one of the deadly, hurling asteroids is actually... a potato !
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14. The planet name 'Utapau' was in Lucas's original first treatment.
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15. In the first draft of Star Wars, the main character was named Luke Starkiller.
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16. TK421 is the only stormtrooper known by name in any Star Wars film until Revenge Of The Sith. In Episode III there is a trooper by the name of Cody.
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17. Initially, in 1977, Star Wars was not called Episode 4, a new hope. This was added later with the re-release prior to Empire.
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14. Initially, Harrison Ford had not signed for Return of the Jedi so Lucas had to write a scene where it made sense that he died between 'Empire' and 'Jedi'... the carbon freezing process.
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19. The 'Wilhelm Scream' is heard in every Star Wars movie.
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20. All twelve members of the Jedi Council are Jedi Masters, except for Ki-Ad-Mundi, who is a Jedi Knight.
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21. Carrie Fisher and Sissy Spasic both auditioned for the role of Princess Leia and "Carrie" from Stephen King's Carrie at the same time. Fisher took Star Wars, as she was against the initial "nude" scene in Carrie. Can you imagine Princess Leia played by Sissy?
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22. Harrison Ford ad-libbed his line in the exchange: LIEA: "I love you." HAN: "I know."
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23. Harrison Ford asked that Han Solo die at the end of Empire during the carbon freezing process ... but his request was denied by George Lucas.
(Thank God)
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