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Jul 16, 2020

TIL The magic of Star Wars was largely thanks to one man, Roger Christian, who spent countless hours without getting paid, constructing the worlds on screen from piles of scrapped airplanes.

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Jul 16, 2020

TIL that some of the asteroids in the Star Wars films were actually potatoes

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Jul 12, 2020

TIL Actor Billy Dee Williams (Lando from StarWars) Promotes A Life View Without The Concept Of Race. He Sees Himself As A "Universal Being Part Of The Cosmos" And Since The 80s Has Criticized Show Business For Creating Race Stereotypical Characters Which He Has Avoided As An Actor.

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Jun 28, 2020

TIL Multiple Star Wars lead actors have struggled with a habit of making their own sound effects for fight scenes to the point where numerous takes needed to re-shot because you could see the actors making lightsaber noises.

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May 03, 2020

TIL: The Mandalorian was filmed on a giant virtual set, displaying the backgrounds with real-time graphics, captured in-camera.

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Feb 11, 2020

TIL George Lucas's original name for Yoda was... Buffy

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Dec 29, 2019

TIL that Samuel L Jackson wanted a purple lightsaber so he would be noticeable in Attack of the Clones, and that he has the prop at home with, "Bad Mother f***er," inscribed in the hilt of it.

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Dec 17, 2019

TIL that composer John Williams has been nominated for 51 Academy Awards (winning 5) second only to Walt Disney who has 59. Williams has been nominated in six different decades, receiving his first for Valley of the Dolls in 1968 and his last for Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2018.

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Dec 11, 2019

TIL The Star Wars (1977) attack run scene was heavily influenced by the Dam Busters (1955) bombing run (based on the true story of a low flying bombing run, deep in Axis territory, amidst enemy fire, with a very narrow target window to hit a weak point in enourmous enemy targets. Sound familiar?).

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Nov 29, 2019

TIL that George Lucas told Carrie Fisher not to wear a bra under her white dress in Star Wars A New Hope "because nobody wears underwear in Space".

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Sep 27, 2019

TIL that the actor inside R2-D2 hated the actor inside C-3P0, calling him ‘the rudest person I’ve ever met’.

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Sep 20, 2019

TIL when George Lucas was searching for a studio to produce Star Wars in 1973, he approached Disney, who turned him down.

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Sep 08, 2019

TIL about the Wilhelm Scream -- a stock sound effect that has been used in at least 416 films and TV series since 1951, and is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.

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Aug 17, 2019

TIL Star Wars was originally called "The Adventures of Luke Skywalker As Taken From The Journal Of The Whills Saga # I: The Star Wars".

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Jun 08, 2019

TIL George Lucas considered an alternative ending to Return of the Jedi. Luke turns to the dark side. He puts on Vader's mask and claims "Now I am Vader. Now I will go and kill the [Rebel] fleet and I will rule the universe"

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Jun 08, 2019

TIL about Team Negative One. A group of Star Wars fans that scanned their own 35mm negatives and digitally restored the movie to it's pre-Special Edition glory.

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