General Trilogy Facts
The sound of a TIE Fighter was created by combining the squeal of a young elephant with the sound
of a car driving by on a rain-slicked highway
Denis Lawson who played Wedge Antilles is the real life uncle of Ewan McGregor "Obi-Wan Kenobi"
A New Hope Facts
Luke Skywalker held his breath so long during the trash compactor scene that he burst a blood vessel in his face.
The rest of the scene showed only one side of his face
The scene of the escape pod leaving the Corellian Corvette was the first ever created by ILM
The Empire Strikes Back Facts
The scene with the Wampa was created to cover the result of a bad car wreck Mark Hamill was in
between the first and second films. It replaced an entire subplot invoclgin an invasion of the rebel base
by a pack of angy Wampas.
Return of the Jedi Facts
In the original draft of Return of the Jedi, Lando and crew
were supposed to die and the Millenium Falcon destroyed while attempting to
escape the explosion of the second Death Star.
The title Return of the Jedi was orginally named Revenge of the Jedi. It was renamed for two reason: Lucas didn't think it represented
the way a Jedi behaves, and Star Trek II was going to be subtitled The Revenge of Khan
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