20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Star Wars behind-the-scenes facts from the movie that started it all.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

Another interesting trivia. When training aboard Millenium Falcon with helmet on, Luke is constantly saying that he cannot see anything. What many people do not know is that this WAS NOT acting. Mark Hamill was legitimately complaining about not being able to see anything because of the helmet. George Lucas thought this was perfect for character who was just starting his training and therefore told camera crew to start filming. Hamill had no idea he was being filmed until after he took helmet off. That shot of Hamill legitimately complaining about not being able to see anything is the one that appears in the movie.

[@DrWhom]

you mean trivium

[@jefferysterner]

Williams' music for Star Wars was absolute iconic genius and the film would not have been nearly as impactful without it.

[@skooter6235]

I’ve always thought that if George knew Luke and Leia were brother and sister in the first Star Wars he NEVER would have had them kissing.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

The rest of the story had 3 and 6 years to be modified. Luke was also originally going to go to the dark side.

[@TakersMissy]

Well, I think the saving grace there was that THEY had no idea they were brother and sister.

[@skooter6235]

@@TakersMissy True

[@drdarkeny]

But then we wouldn't have the meme of Leah saying "I kissed my brother, twice" - and Cersei Lannister looking smug.

[@charlesvan13]

They added too many highly improbable coincidences. Vader being Luke's father worked. But making Leia Luke's sister was stupid. It also made Vader interrogating and going along with Leia's execution order, without realizing she's his daughter.

[@danielgertler5976]

The problem with greedo shooting first isn't that it looks bad or that han is less cool. The problem is that the whole point is that han was a no good scoundrel who only looked out for number one, but by the end of the film he's the guy who comes back to help out Luke in the trench run.

[@DrWhom]

yes, we call that a pay-off

[@TheMimiSard]

It also implies, that if Han shot first, he was canny and alert.

[@Me4-gc8qs]

The bigger problem. Greedo missed at that range....

[@leslietarkin5705]

I agree that Cushing earned every penny and more. Grand Moff Tarkin is my favorite character out of all the trilogies. I can't wait to see him in The Bad Batch series.😊 According to Cushing, he was originally to play Kenobi and Christopher Lee was to play Vader but, schedules didn't work out. Cushing played Tarkin, Guinness played Kenobi and, Lee would play Dooku in 2002 & 2005.

[@dufusbrigade]

Now I want a Christopher Lee dub over Darth Vader. That would be awesome.

[@th8257]

Lee was due to play Tarkin, not Vader

[@callefalk4457]

STARWARS...A NEW HOPE!!!!

[@BigJeremyBeyer]

Peter Cushing also wore slippers for most of the filming because the Imperial boots hurt his feet.

[@white-dragon4424]

I believe that those "Imperial boots" are WWII era German officer boots, much like their uniforms are modified WWI era German officer uniforms.

[@needparalegal]

Looking stylish always carries a price.

[@RogbodgeVideo]

That explains why you cannot see his feet most of the time

[@drdarkeny]

I hope there's a blooper somewhere of a full shot of Cushing just padding around in slippers while being all villainous and stuff....

[@BigJeremyBeyer]

@@drdarkeny that would be awesome 🤣

[@carealoo744]

George: '"I was thinking we go 2.25%?" Alec: (Chuckles) "Sure."

[@aurorajones8481]

Why not make it a cool 5%?

[@paulkennedy8701]

This is not the percentage you are looking for.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

He didn't split up the script into three, he split it into nine. He really had nine movies worth of material crammed into one script, and his friends made him pick one movie's worth, to avoid disaster.

[@latewizard301]

Funny... People forget George's script heavily inspired TRoS... Yet people say it "Ruins George's vision" TBF we don't know ETF George's vision was, he seems to literally retcon everything.

[@davidgeisler9885]

I think it was more like 9 movies worth of outlines or ideas in his head. I have read elsewhere that in terms of an actual script for Star Wars it was as described in this video. Enough for 3 movies. I don’t think he had at the point fleshed out actual scripts for 9 movies.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

@@latewizard301 The main thing that made StarWars so great was that Lucas had friends who could kind of edit him. Once he got powerful enough, it really went down hill. The first two movies were amazing. The third was an episode of the Muppet Show. And we do not talk of the prequels. But sure, it was totally Disney that fucked up StarWars... I think Disney hasn't been worth a damn since Peter Pan, but they've been treating StarWars a lot better than Lucas.

[@latewizard301]

@@ernststravoblofeld yeah I'm gonna have to agree with you (except Peter Pan, cus Pirates of the Caribbean is gold) George's editing would have ruined A New Hope

[@ernststravoblofeld]

@@latewizard301 Yeah, Pirates was cool. 😄 When it comes to actual film editing, Marcia Lucas made that movie. She was one of the best. Taxi Driver.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

The problem Anthony Daniels had with not being able to sit in his C3PO costume and had to lean against the wall during breaks, is incredibly similar to problems Jack Haley had with his Tin Man costume in Wizard of Oz. Unlike Daniels, Haley could sit down in his costume, but getting up proved to be a nightmare without being helped by others. Tired of asking for help, Haley simply decided to lean against the wall during all breaks. Daniels said that he was inspired by Haley in his performance as C3PO, despite the two character not having much in common, except both being made of metal.

[@joermnyc]

Anthony Daniels also had a hell of a time when he needed the bathroom, as he need to ask for help removing enough of the suit so he could go... it got to the point that he just ate and drank very little so he wouldn’t need to get those urges while in costume.

[@lawrencetalbot8346]

Meanwhile no one ever talks about how R2-D2 was played by a real midget and he would get left in the costume for hours because the cast forgot someone was inside. One time he was passed out from a heat stroke since they were filming in Africa for the Tatooine scenes

[@briansullivan5908]

Same thing happened with the Robo Cop suit.

[@joermnyc]

@@lawrencetalbot8346 Only certain standing R2-D2’s are suits though, if you can see tubes coming from his feet at an angle and going into his body, that’s the one with Kenny Baker (and later Jimmy Vee) inside. Many others are remote controlled, especially the ones with the third leg down.

[@joermnyc]

@@briansullivan5908 they fixed a lot of the issues for RoboCop 2 (the repaired RoboCop for most of the film is the new suit, which is also a different color), but Peter Weller still refused to return for a third movie.

[@lawrencetalbot8346]

@@joermnyc that doesn’t diminish the fact Baker was left to roast in a metal can in the literal African desert.

[@TheAtarashiiKaze]

That "Mind's Eye" crystal was a focus, not a force container. It could magnify and focus one's force power.

[@kcthesledgestoryteller]

Lucas wanted Solo to be more John Wayne, and yet the Solo-Greedo shootout is an almost beat-for-beat redo of the scene in Big Jake where Duke “shoots first” through shower doors before the bad guy could fire his gun.

[@proto-geek248]

Harrison Ford is a douche. Every character he ever played is Han Solo. Indiana Jones: Han Solo. Air Force One: Han Solo. The Fugitive: Han Solo. Never appreciated what side his bread was buttered on. Then he insists on killing him off in a completely horrid movie by an equally horrid character. Douche.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

@@proto-geek248 Sounds like a you problem.

[@proto-geek248]

@@ernststravoblofeld "Sounds like a you problem" What the hell does that mean?

[@ernststravoblofeld]

@@proto-geek248 It means you are worked up about pointless shit that nobody cares about.

[@hideofreakingkojima5457]

"If you want to shoot; shoot, don't talk"

[@6thwilbury2331]

Related to #17, one of the single best KZbin videos ever made about Star Wars is called "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" by RocketJump.

[@JohnSmith-vp4ft]

I would also add John Williams music also saved it. Probably no movie has been transformed as much when the music was added.

[@detectivesquirrel2621]

I knew all of these. Plus 8, is incorrect, David Prowse was told from the start that his voice wasn't going to be used in the final product. Originally Anthony Daniel's voice wasn't going to be used, George Lucas wanted an 'Used Car Salesman' voice. Eventually he was convinced to used Daniel's voice.

[@juanitaayala1554]

Hamburgers are life savers (robert downy jr) and great blue prints for famous ships ( Millennium Falcon)

[@Shadowace724]

The Kyber crystal was a relic in the original intended sequel called Splinter of the Minds Eye. Luke and Leia ended up being lovers and facing Darth Vader and defeating him. I bought the book long before Empire came

[@Rocket1377]

No, Luke and Leia are not explicitly depicted as lovers in that story. Their dialogue can be viewed as banter between siblings, not flirting.

[@proto-geek248]

Splinter wasn't an intended sequel, it was just a book Alan Dean Foster wrote.

[@Shadowace724]

@@Rocket1377 They were not having sexual relationship granted, however this was written long before the sibling idea existed. If it did exist it was not communicated to Foster. It is alluded to in the story they have a great attraction to one another, although Leia refuses to acknowledge her feelings for a majority of the story. By the end of the story they are much closer and Very affectionate.

[@davidgeisler9885]

@@Rocket1377 no they aren’t but they clearly are not brother and sister. It’s clear a future romantic relationship is intended.

[@davidgeisler9885]

@@Shadowace724 I have read that leia and Luke being siblings was a hasty rewrite done after TESB when George abandoned plans to do another 4 movies and instead make ROTJ the last movie. In order to more quickly tie up loose ends in the plot this relationship was dreamed up. The backstory of what was intended to be the longer multi movie story arc for the main characters is very interesting.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Is this actually 10 things fans all know?! Like George Lucas was hospitalised because of stress.

[@aquamonkee]

Most of the points can be found on IMDB and any that aren't covered are most definitely on DVD/BR extras

[@soopafamicom]

Most of the vids this channel puts out are either really rehashed or just totally off point. As if they haven't actually seen the films but were told about them.

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

Yeah, George Lucas suffered a heart attack due to stress.

[@erikziak1249]

Star Wars and Spaceballs. Two of my favorite movies (series). You know you are good if a spoof is made, especially such a good one as by Mel Brooks. The only analogy I have here is Michael Jackson and Weird Al Yankovic. You know you reached cult status if you have equivalently cult status parodies.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

Spaceballs : The Movie! features all that merchandise because Lucas would not allow Brooks to sell any.

[@erikziak1249]

@@geoffroi-le-Hook I believe it was a request by Lucas that no Spaceballs mechandise should be produced alongisde the movie. So Brooks used this as an in-joke in the movie itself.

[@SaiaArt]

Though not ep IV, the tie bomber was nicknamed “double chili dog.” Slave I’s design was inspired by a street light when the artist was stuck in traffic on his way to work.

[@joelellis7035]

Van Helsing and Dracula both played characters in the star wars franchise. Peter Cushing rather famously played the vampire hunter Van Helsing opposite Christopher Lee's Dracula in Dracula 1972. Cushing and Lee were also good friends. I imagine that Lee found it an honor to associated with his late friend's role when he was asked to portray Count Dooku.

[@andybrace9225]

Was Van Helsing in 1st Hamer version of Dracula which was made in 1960s.

[@noonespecial9994]

@@andybrace9225 Yes. Cushing's Van Helsing was in the first Hammer Dracula.

[@JimAirborne25]

#20 has been known for decades. Newer generations (like my nieces) may not be aware of it, but a few years after (or directly after the movies’ release), it was known that Lucas made out like a bandit with the merchandising in order to recoup the cost of his investment. He gambled not only on the return on investment from merchandising, but also with creating the SFX for the movie. That, of course, led to the creation of Industrial Light and Magic, which is still sets a high standard for special effects in films today.

[@PozerAdultRacingTeam]

Still my favorite Star Wars movie.

[@user-sm2ql7nq4l]

I never understood George's reasoning about not wanting to cast Harrison Ford because he was in American Graffiti and yet he auditioned Cindy Williams who had a bigger part in Graffiti and scenes with Harrison.

[@georgeworley6927]

The number one thing to know is in it's theatrical release, the movie name did not contain a subtitle nor an episode name. When they, whom ever the powers might be, decided to change the name also decided to erase my first real date when I took them to opening night of "Star Wars". I have not and will not ever see any of the unnecessary prequels. The original trilogy didn't need any further back story. It just furthers my opinion off Hollywood having nothing original to produce. Rev George

[@Rocket1377]

George Lucas/Lucasfilm is not part of Hollywood.

[@georgeworley6927]

@@Rocket1377 yes he is. He change Hollywood from an auteur to an entrepreneurial model. None of this negates the fact that film names were unnecessarily changed. Rev George

[@miroslavtomic7038]

It is well known fact that the biggest nightmare in post-production was C3PO since literally everything was reflecting on his body, especially his head, including crew members, stage lights and other equipment. All of those had to be digitally removed for the final movie.

[@martinkosecky4943]

I doubt they would have had the capabilities to digitally remove things back in 1977, especially since the entire film was shot on film and all the special effects were done practically and all the space battles were done by recording the practical models separately and making cutouts in the film frames with the backdrop and layering them onto the practical model footage. The only piece of CGI in the film is the wireframe Death Star model. You can actually still see the cameras and crew reflected in many shots during the course of original trilogy. You must have been thinking of the prequels.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

@@martinkosecky4943 They could digitally remove this. Otherwise, C3PO would be useless as everything behind cameras would be reflected on him.

[@DrWhom]

Digital removal was not available at the time.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

@@DrWhom There was but it was a nightmare to do it as it required literally removing piece by piece of the thing you want to remove and it could take alot of time.

[@victorjohnson7512]

People stood in line for hours to see the original Star Wars in limited theaters.

[@whiskeyvictor5703]

I was there in '77, and the lines were unimaginably long, stretching for block after block. We got to the vicinity in late afternoon, and by the time we shuffled close to the window of the box office it was already dark and the stars had come out. Quite appropriate timing, really. After all these years I still remember that evening like it was no more than a few weeks ago!

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

At my local cinema the queue stretched to the end of the block and round the corner.

[@CrazyBear65]

I remember standing in line with my dad to see that movie when I was 11. Han shot. Period. Greedo didn't have a chance. Greedo wasn't fast enough. All Greedo did was die. Never knew about Prowse not being told he was dubbed over, that's gotta hurt.

[@OldNew45]

I wanted to buy one of those "Han shot first" shirts, cross out the first, and write "PERIOD". Geat minds an all that.

[@glennruscher4007]

Yeah but, Dubbed over by James Earl Jones!!!! COOL!!!!

[@Ireneharnack1138]

#1 was the biggest surprise to me. Gotta wonder what they thought of the products and toys as they produced them?

[@depalma13]

The original Star Wars toys were produced in Cincinnati, Ohio.

[@Ireneharnack1138]

@@depalma13 and the 1980's and current runs of SW toys? I sadly tossed the cardboard holders when I got my original Star Wars toys in the 70's & 80's much to my chagrin today

[@patrickmann5903]

Peter Cushing refused to wear boots in his role as Moff Tarkin and insisted upon wearing his own personal slippers on set. As such, Tarkin is only shown from the knees up.

[@Rocket1377]

Number 19 is not entirely correct, you have confused some of those details. Lucas did not rule Ford out of being in Star Wars due to his appearance in American Graffiti. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the film Lucas didn't want Ford to be in, since he didn't think Solo and Indy should be played by the same actor. The only reason he gave Ford that role is because Tom Selleck (who was originally cast as Indy) dropped out of Raiders at the last minute.

[@DAZzler3K]

Sellek later reprised that role in one episode of the Magnum, P. I. show. :D I guess he's still biting his rear for saying "no"...

[@dougadams9419]

Fun Fact. Anthony Daniels is the only actor to have appeared in all films in the franchise, appearing as C-3PO in all except Solo, in which he appeared as Tak. Multiple other cast members recur across multiple films and series within the franchise.

[@SAPProd]

Smoldering skeletons, a bloody severed arm, a blasted corps, various frightening creatures, various soldiers killed on both sides, a populated planet destroyed, and a battle station explosion all come to a G rating, but adding “hell” and “damn” puts it over into PG territory?

[@andyb1653]

That's America for you. Murder and death are fine (as long as there isn't too much blood), but swearing and sex are wholly evil.

[@jfess1911]

This differs with what was said at the time. The bloody arm in the Cantina was added to get the "PG" rating. This was brought up when someone asked Lucas why the light saber did not make a cauterized, bloodless wound. A bloody severed arm was also put in the next movie for the same reason.

[@Rocket1377]

@F Jess: No it wasn't. The bloody arm was always there.

[@jfess1911]

@@Rocket1377 I am going by what was said at the time.

[@jfess1911]

@@Rocket1377 After doing more research, you are indeed correct, the bloody arm was always there. I was going by what had been widely reported at the time. According to this article, the movie received its PG rating because the film company resubmitted it and specifically requested that rating. www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-did-star-wars-add-a-severed-arm-to-earn-a-pg-rating/

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

21 - Carrie's hair was really wrapped around cinnamon buns.

[@joermnyc]

It really was headphones, like in Spaceballs.

[@stevegallo8483]

How did you miss the look of Chewbacca being inspired by George Lucas' dog Indiana?

[@atharvadeshpande1092]

That's something people already know about, the title says 20 things you didn't know about

[@stevegallo8483]

@@atharvadeshpande1092 I already knew everything mentioned in this video!

[@atharvadeshpande1092]

@@stevegallo8483 that's good man, I'm a Die Hard Star Wars Fan Too

[@aquamonkee]

@@atharvadeshpande1092 those 20 were far from unknown however

[@legofirefighter]

Probably because it’s pretty well known in the fandom. I would put it to the equivalent of like how LOTR fans talk about Vigo breaking his toe when he kicked that helmet.

[@Grouncontrol]

I’m old enough to remember seeing the original film at a drive in theater when I was 5.

[@vassa1972]

Very interesting video I loved the original trilogy

[@rocketdude2969]

I heard Richard Dreyfuss was considered for the voice of C3-Po.

[@jfess1911]

An old guy here. Immediately after Star Wars was released, it was said that the bloody severed arm in the cantina is what was added to get the PG rating. I think that the movie received a "G" rating prior to that addition. The question about the blood came up when Lucas was asked why the light saber wound was not cauterized. The same thing was used in the next movie, you might remember. Note the blood when Luke cut off the Wampa's arm in "Empire".

[@Rocket1377]

Wrong, the bloody arm was always there. It was rated "suitable for all ages" until very recently.

[@jfess1911]

@@Rocket1377 You are right that the bloody arm was always there (my mistake), but wrong about the rating. It was PG. If you look at the original movie posters, you will see the PG rating in the lower left corner. www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-did-star-wars-add-a-severed-arm-to-earn-a-pg-rating/

[@soulreapermagnum]

you know, i've always wondered why they never fixed the bloody arm scene?

[@michaeldailey7103]

I spent four hours in line during a hot , San Diego summer to see A New Hope !! I turned 11 that year and spent a good portion of it begging the parents for thing I had to have , a model of the Falcon , an " authentic " light saber ( a plastic flashlight with a long plastic tube attached ) that fell apart the first time I assaulted my brother with it !!! Ah , memories !!!

[@julienneaves790]

I didn’t know most of these. Good job

[@patriciafenwick5846]

I knew some of them, but some were a real surprise. I would love for someone (Disney?) To release the original trilogy as it was before George remasterised everything. It would be sooooo great to see it again in its "purest" form.

[@PopeyeBjj86]

Not got VHS copies from 97???

[@Ruylopez778]

Its "purest form" was on a rushed master print. It wasn't properly cleaned, or properly stored by Fox. When Lucas made the special editions (in order to trial technology for the prequels which revolutionised cinema for the second time) they had to take the master apart and scan every element of the composite before recreating the movie. What you actually had in the projection at the time would look like shit today. So what you want doesn't exist, and never did. But you can buy a laserdisc of the theatrical cut. Of course, it won't look as good as you remember it would have or could have been, because the mind is a hopelessly flawed machine.

[@Rocket1377]

To see it in its original form, just buy an old VHS tape. That low res quality is what Star Wars looked like in 1977, and that is how everyone saw it back in the day. If you want the "authentic" experience, be my guest.

[@patriciafenwick5846]

@@PopeyeBjj86 yes, I have, but they were remasterised to celebrate 20 yrs. I meant the originals as they were in 1977, 1980, and 1983 in the theatres.

[@OldNew45]

I understand what you mean, and would've liked, I dunno, two different versions. One that was JUST remastered (fixing things like many of the space shots going from light to dark to light from frame to frame, and Obi-Wan's lightsaber momentarily disappearing while fighting Vader) and another remastered with his extra stuff.

[@stuartenglish5088]

Cushing also wore sleepers while film....

[@dmfraser1444]

About the premier date and the limited release, I lived in Edmonton, Alberta then and I remember it opening there in late May 1977. At a cinema at a mall near the edge of the city. Likely May 25. I saw it on the second Saturday after the premier there. My conclusion is that the 32 screens in the US was just the US as I remember the sensation it made all across Canada in the major cities there.

[@jackwenn_9693]

Grand moff Tarkin was wearing slipper because his boots were not fitted properly.

[@jak6013]

I was just watching whatculture wrestling

[@dougadams9419]

I saw the original Star Wars in a Japanese theater in 1977 while stationed at Misawa AB in the USAF. Kanji subtitles on the tight side of the screen, top to bottom. The Japanese giggled when the name Obi-wan Kenobi was first said. "An 'obi' is the sash used to tie a kimono, 'ken' is Japanese for sword and 'wan' sounds somewhat like the Japanese honorific 'san'.

[@mantistoboggan5171]

john williams obviously takes a great bit of inspiration from gustav holst, the dude who wrote the planets suite. why on earth would you not hire that man for a space film?

[@sammylane21]

I'd to see a animated retelling of the original STAR WARS(before it was "STARWARS:A NEW HOPE") script, scene per scene, shot per shot retelling. Same for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI too.

[@Rocket1377]

What would be the point of that? Disney already tried something like that (taking the audio from the movies and setting it to animation) with their Galaxy of Adventures series, and it was absolutely awful. Remaking Star Wars is an utter waste of time, they are already perfect.

[@MartinCHorowitz]

I saw the film with the critics in NY (no advanced screening), FOx was so worried the movie would bomb they gave out may the force be with you buttons.

[@white-dragon4424]

It's ironic that if Lucas had released the PT first that it would've been the bomb that they were expecting.

[@DEATH2thaSTUpid]

Didnt know that DePalma helped write the crawl..also Willow got made because Lucas promised the Ewok cast that had an idea for a film that they could all be in

[@joekherr5546]

Here's another fun fact about Brian De Palma, him and George were casting Carrie and Star Wars at the same time to save on cost, which is why so many women auditioned for Leia, because they were also auditioning for Carrie.

[@michaelrue1400]

I had understood that even though Lucas produced Willow, Ron Howard had come up with the idea and at least outlined the script.

[@DEATH2thaSTUpid]

@@michaelrue1400 Lucas promised the Ewok crew a movie for them and wrote Willow in literature..Howard gave some ideas and directed..nothing more

[@Robert08010]

At 4:42, we see one of the very few thing I consider an editing mistake in this film. Its part of the trash compactor scene. Don't know what they were thinking here. Maybe the other takes were spoiled and this was the only one they could use or maybe they were just tired and didn't care when they were editing this. Either way, my eye cuts immediately to Leah and the pole next to her which she is already clutching because she already knows what is about to happen - a stage hand is about to start moving the walls in and she has to lift that pole to get it in place to pretend to brace the wall. The only thing is, if this were real she wouldn't know the wall is about to start moving. Its only because this is likely the 10th take that her hand is already on the pole. And even if you want to imagine she was just holding the pole to brace herself from falling over, fine but that doesn't explain why she never even looks down at the pole to decide whether its the best item to try to save herself with. She is staring at the non-moving wall, waiting and holding the pole before the wall starts moving and then swings the pole into action without ever looking down at it. Its just not logical. Editors know to look for things like where the eye is drawn too first. There's no reason to reason to pick this shot, unless they just goofed or the other shots were somehow ruined.

[@stuartenglish5088]

Alec Guinness got merchandising percentage too...

[@Ruylopez778]

3m29 "hired Marcia to recut the film with the help of Hirsch and Chew" WRONG. Lucas started to recut the film with Marcia, but there was too much to do in too little time, and they were overwhelmed. Lucas hired Hirsch, and then Chew. Let's not perpetuate the narrative that Marcia edited the whole movie. She didn't. She recut the Yavin battle scene, making it shorter.

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

11:40 - Let's get something straight. When someone passes on a project that becomes wildly successful that someone should not necessarily kick themselves in the back. Had Disney produced Star Wars it would have been a much different film and probably would have ended up as one of their VHS vault films. Remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Which Mountain? Yeah I don't ether but that's what Disney was producing around that time frame. Yahoo had the opportunity to buy Google at one time. Blockbuster could have bought Netflix. I'm pretty sure those two companies would have messed up the latter and you would have never heard of Google and Netflix today if those deals had gone through.

[@OldNew45]

Do you remember Netflix when it started!? It was friggin horrible. It was like choosing the old drug store movie selection versus blockbuster. My buddy had a Netflix subscription when it first came out, and it was labor intensive and slow. I do remember when they turned a corner (wish I could renember what it was) and I said "well, blockbuster missed it by that much". Remember them having their own mail-out option with membership?

[@DrWhom]

possibly. a buy out can be a burial, that's for sure

[@alextownley9388]

Can you imagine a bunch of Chinese people seeing A New Hope for the first time in 2015 thinking it’s a new film 😂

[@fabiorabelo3506]

The real reason that the Kyber Krystal was removed from the draft was that they feared the very similar concept present in the "Marion Zimmer Bradley" novel of the "Darkover" series may end in a litigation . What are not clear are who feared it, Lucas or Fox .

[@chrislouden6702]

One thing too Tom Selleck and if I remember right Butt Reynolds turned down part of Solo. Also when it was a trailer at the movies Mark Hamil was at a theater and saw the trailer coming out this summer and some guy yelled out "Coming out this summer and will be on late night TV this fall!" Everyone laughed yet it was on the big screen in the Fall! Boy did they never forgot it! Star Wars still going strong!

[@hewiy33]

In Canada star wars was released in July of 1977 and I was 8 going on 9 years old. When I saw newspaper advertisements I though. Star wars... star.. wars? Huh must be about a war in space....

[@DrWhom]

it is interesting how easily nouns in English take on the role of adjectives without quite becoming adjectives. What kind of wars? - You know, _star_ wars. Also think of gold standard, and how this is different from golden standard. Many other languages have to ponderously spell it out: The Wars of the Stars

[@amyjojinkerson6745]

I watched this movie that was released on my birthday and seen the London philharmonic orchestra

[@karlthomas8031]

John Wayne 100% shot first in one of his films, cos his opponent was too good to be given any chance.

[@Elvisbackpack]

The rating issue is also rumored to be a reason for Greedo shooting first. Supposedly, the MPAA were about to slap a PG-13 on the Special Edition and Lucas, wanting to keep his PG, made Han shoot in self defense to avoid the rating being raised.

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

12:16 "Angela Kah-Hurston". Nice.

[@DAZzler3K]

#14 is untrue. The original "Rough Draft" of "The Star Wars", dated 5/1974, had 129 pages. It took GL six rewrites to get his "Shooting Script" together, the "Revised Fourth Draft" from March 15th, 1976. It had 150 pages, from which several scenes ended on the cutting room floor...

[@prokesuk]

Brian DePalma helping with the script for the crawl makes sense. DePalma did a similar thing for the opening of The Phantom Of The Paradise, setting up the story before the movie starts. But, instead of a crawl it was spoken by Rod Serling. Also, Darth Vader's costume was ripped off from the Phantom. :)

[@MoviesNStuff]

My fav what culture channel is the Comics

[@Kuffdam-nx6ll]

My fav choccie biscuit is a club

[@PopeyeBjj86]

My favourite flavour is blue

[@somechannelguy]

My fav cat breed is cow

[@sammylane21]

Who is "Angelica Hursten" mentioned here??😆

[@mikem4259]

Lol!, Lucas only taking a $100,000 salary in exchange for sequels and merchandising. a slam dunk for fox. They figured the movie merchandising wouldn’t be good. I had damned near every toy made after seeing episode 4. The rush to buy Star Wars toys was wild back then. I even had the stars trading cards. They came in a pack with gum. I gotta go out on the garage and find the action figures and other crap from back then. None of its in any packaging, but a lot of it is in good shape still.

[@OldNew45]

I remember having some of the cards. I distinctly recall a lot of cool little details you could see in the cards that were not shown or couldn't be made out in the film. I liked other toys, but my older brother was huge into the star wars toys.

[@OldNew45]

Not to mention, one hundred thousand dollars, in the mid seventies!?

[@ronstreet6706]

Another fun fact: Most of the guns were based on WW2 era weapons. The longer guns (plasma cannons) were based on the MG42 , the blasters that the stormtroopers carried were based on the Sten gun. Han's gun was based on a Mauser broomhandle pistol.

[@DrWhom]

a lot of temp footage was WWII as well

[@TheBlaineFindley]

Carrie Fisher was on video saying that it was budgeted like a low budget film

[@ricstormwolf]

If you've seen Empire of Dreams, you already know most of these.

[@philiponeill6903]

The hamburger inspiration for the Falcon is apocryphal. Lucas himself has denied this was the case.

[@DrWhom]

I can believe that GL probably did say something like wanting an instantly recognisable shape, and also that its designers probably likened it to a hamburger as it was taking shape. So I suppose these two merged to create the legend.

[@orionparish9858]

#6 does raise an interesting question in how much Star Wars as we know it would have been different, had Disney been backing it from the very start, and not just from 2012 onwards.

[@roughboypigskin4689]

Knew a little over half of these. Should be titled "you might not know". Good video nonetheless. Thanks.😀

[@arakuss1]

Ok this should be titled 20 Things that have been told over and over again. And some of these are not full story.

[@trollonwiggins]

Did you know the iconic crawl the start of the movie was originally done in an old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon movie?

[@davinvincilione1809]

Peter Cushing also wore his house slipper while filming

[@NiteOWL82]

Still in 2021 a form of star wars is still playing in theatres.

[@davidcoleman757]

A local wag climbed onto the roof of our town cinema and changed the title to Ars Warts.

[@Jason4422Daddybear]

The Kyber Crystal did NOT become the power source.

[@ihadathoughtonce1016]

yes it did

[@Jason4422Daddybear]

@@ihadathoughtonce1016 Try reading my comment again. I didn't say it wasn't a source for power. I said it's not THE power source. It FOCUSES the power. The power to turn the light saber on is the diatium power cell. Yes once a light saber is ignited it keeps going on It's own. However WITHOUT a power source it can NOT ignite. Which in any scientific term means it's NOT the power source!!! Google it for yourself.

[@ihadathoughtonce1016]

@@Jason4422Daddybear ok

[@criscase6632]

The original trilogy is my childhood saw all of them in the theater.

[@latewizard301]

I would like to see an unedited Star Wars with Prowse's voice, mostly cus we'll get a 77 mention of the word "Sith" and "cosmic force"

[@LiamGers-cx1kn]

I’ll come clean. The 1 spot ACTUALLY broke me!

[@robinporter8481]

The only one I didn't know was the Millenium Hamburger.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Jodie Foster as Leia, visually that would have worked on account that Natalie Portman played what would be Leia's mother. Their facial features are close enough to be related. They could not get boots to fit Peter Cushing, so all the scenes where you don't see his feet, he is wearing slippers!

[@TJ52359]

I have some doubt seeing as Foster was only 14 in 1976... Unless they were still making a wholly distinct film when her name was floated I doubt she ws ever a serious contender

[@dougadams9419]

7:02 He did that because George did NOT understand self defense when a Blaster is pointed at your head. He thought if Han shot first it made him a Murderer. When it was exactly the opposite.

[@Hoovie9596]

11:15 “ok let’s build this reactor!”

[@Rocket1377]

Literally the first thing you said in this video was wrong. Star Wars was not a big budget movie back in 1977. It was made for 11 million dollars, which was small compared to most movies at that time.

[@rumblehat4357]

And it was only up to 11 million because Lucas said he couldn't finish it for the (I think) 8million already budgeted, and the head of Fox, Alan Ladd, said he believed in the project and that's how he got the extra money to finish it.

[@DemoHSK]

What culture: you didn’t know this Me an absolute Star Wars nerd: try me

[@publiusvelocitor4668]

Christine Baranski as Princess Leia? I actually kind of get it- the sort of sarcastic, plucky delivery. But what a different film it would have been.

[@flipnap2112]

Terri nunn of Berlin was almost Leia and got pretty close. she was in your video

[@karstenschuhmann8334]

I think the inspiration for the Millennium Falcon is more likely the ship of Valerian.

[@DrWhom]

this is a sore point with us French sci fi fans

[@karstenschuhmann8334]

@@DrWhom I am not French, but I was reading the comics. I mean all SF uses inspiration from earlier publications. I just find it absurd stupid to deny this.

[@matthewlabbe8395]

I could totally see Glenn Close as Leia.

[@gumbacca]

That would have been so Epically Kewl if they had followed through with Lucas's idea of making Luke, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru all Dwarfs. Though then Leia would have had to have been a Dwarf. Think Han would have mated with her if she where a Dwarf?

[@ralfhtg1056]

The reason Greedo shot first: it doesn't play the slightest role who shot first! Greedo had Han at gun point. And a pre-empitve strike from Han is STILL SELF-DEFENSE!

[@RemyJackson]

I prefered Han shooting Greedo in cold blood. Ben and Luke didn't go to Mos Eisley to hire a pilot because it was a hang outbof honorable people. As Ben said, it was a hive a scumnand villainy. Han was hired because he was a criminal. He had no interest in getting involved in the Rebellion. He was only looking out for himself. His last minute decision to come back and join in the fight showes that he had grown as a character, and was no longer only out for himself.

[@OldNew45]

I'd like to add here guys, that he obviously didn't watch a lot of said John Wayne movies. Or didn't pay close attention. Or didn't think about many of the shitty things John Wayne did in real life.

[@Obi-ThreeKenobi]

I really with Lucas understood storytelling a little more. Having Han be a pirate and a "cold-blooded survivalist," and making him the kind of guy who shoots first is a good jumping off point for his own arc of "redemption." He the type of guy to shoot first, but being around Luke and Leia, he learns what it means to be a hero and the guy we love. No one was complaining about that for YEARS. Still, I'll take Lucas Logic over Disney/Kennedys "vision."

[@brendannahor1460]

1977; my older brother n his mates go to see "A New Hope", he comes back and says to me "You won't believe the film that I just saw!" So the next weekend; he took me to see it, n while he stood in the upstairs queue, I walked over n looked out the window down at the traffic! 22 years later; my mom had said the she wanted to see R2 D2 in the new Star Wars movie. We happened to be by a cinema in the town we were visiting. So we went in and while she stood in the upstairs queue; I walked over n looked out the window down at the traffic! Then I realised what had just happened!!! 😳

[@TJ52359]

The G Rating thing was likely to get/allow more showings... if it were "just a G" it was less likely to get any Primetime showings, and would have been default limited to Matinees (in the age of stay at home moms they would/could drop the kid off during the day and go do other things ...

[@JasonTate08]

I saw the thumbnail and thought: "That is not Carrie Fisher." Than I recognized her "Wait, what? That is Ripley herself Sigorny Weaver. She was concidered for the role as Princess Leia?" Then I watched this video ande got the confirmation. I mean Weaver played a badass in the Alien-movies but I also think, that Fisher was the better choice (Rest In Peace Princess). Because Weaver was too much of an badass to fit in this role at this time. And Fisher gave her role as Leia (besides the badassery) the needed layer of vulnerability. And she did it perfectly.

[@futuramayeah]

Ben Burtt recorded old women on the isle of Sicily for the voices of the Jawas, Sicily is just across the sea from Tunisia

[@jeffwalker7185]

Peter Cushing filmed most of his scenes either in his socks or slippers as the boots he was given were ill fitting and caused him discomfort. This is why most of his scenes are filmed from waist up.