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25 Star Wars Facts to Bring Out Your Inner Jedi

some lesser known facts you may not have known

By Nathan Johnson

Published 10 years ago

some lesser known facts you may not have known

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The first screenplay introduced Han Solo as a green-skinned, noseless creature with gills, similar to Greedo.

2
The credits show Jabba the Hut as being played by himself.

3
The word Ewok is just a reversal of the syllables in Wookiee. The Battle of Endor was originally written to happen on Kashyyyk, the Wookie planet.

4
Some random props make appearances in The Phantom Menace. Try to find the toaster, foot massager, and inflatable life boat.

5
R2-D2 popped into George Lucas's head as the name for the lovable droid after a member of the crew of American Graffiti (which he was working on) asked him to get Reel Two of the Second Dialogue track, known in industry jargon as R2-D2.

6
The Asogian senator was named Grebleips and came from Brodo Asogi (just like E.T.). Did you notice Grebleips is Spielberg (the director of E.T.) spelled backwards?

7
Even E.T. made an appearance in Star Wars as an Asogian senator in the Galactic Senate.

8
"I have a bad feeling about this" is a famous Star Wars phrase which has been used in every Star Wars movie to date – let's see if it's used in The Force Awakens!

9
The 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey had its film-famous EVA pod make an appearance in Watto's junkyard on Tattoine.

10
Some of 'NSYNC's members made a cameo appearance in the second film. The scene was cut out in post-production.

11
No one ever wore a clone trooper suit – all these prequel soldiers were computer-generated images.

12
The Jawa's language is a sped up version of Zulu, a language spoken in southern Africa and understood by 50% of South Africans.

13
Greedo speaks Quecha, a South American language spoken in the central Andes mountains.

14
Tatooine was named after the town Tataouine in Tunisia (where most of the filming of Tatooine was done).

15
Early versions of the screenplay saw Luke as a sixty-something year old general.

16
The name of planet Kashyyyk's native race, the Wookiees, translates as "People of the Trees".

17
Rapper Tupac Shakur auditioned for the role of Jedi Mace Windu (which eventually went to Samuel L. Jackson).

18
While filming, many of the crew got coffee from a coffee stand on studio grounds named Javva the Hutt.

19
The droid starfighter was the only type of ship able to invert its wings upon landing and walk about.

20
George Lucas has said the Millennium Falcon was modelled after a hamburger.

21
And Luke Skywalker was originally called Luke Starkiller.

22
Before becoming a Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader was written by Lucas as a bounty hunter. Boba Fett was written in as the bounty hunter so Vader could take his rightful place.

23
No one knows the name of Yoda's species, but they were all excellent Jedi.

24
The sound of a TIE Fighter was actually made by mixing an elephant's trumpet and a car driving on wet terrain.

25
Many of the original Star Wars filming locations in Tunisia used a mix of existing locations. In fact, there are many structures which you can still visit.

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