"100 Facts About Star Wars"

#1. Star Wars is a six movie two trilogy space opera film series from the brain of the impressively bearded writer director George Lucas.

#2. Lucas was credited as a screenwriter and all the films except for the Empire Strikes Back, he also directed all the movies except for, The Return of the Jedi and again the Empire Strikes Back. When asked which of the Star Wars movies is the worst Lucas answered with you guessed it the Empire Strikes Back he really hates Empire striking back doesn't he.

#3. Star Wars was apparently inspired by Flash Gordon no not that one the one that queens sang their song about.

#4. In 2012 the Star Wars franchise including box office takings DVDs and video games was estimated to be worth close to a huge $30 billion dollars.

#5. Also in 2012 the Walt Disney Company seemingly caught a bargain and bought Lucas film for just $5 billion dollars what a deal.

#6. In a move that confused the entire planet the first film of the Star Wars series is Episode four, a new hope because you know who needs Matt's.

#7. To be fair it was originally entitled just Star Wars and later entitled Episode four a new hope in a 1981. Theatrical re-release still pity the people who had missed the memo and saw episode 5 appear a few years later while quaking in fear that had slipped into a coma somehow and missed the other four.

#8. Adjusting for all that economic inflation stuff that's happened over the years this is the third highest-grossing movie of all time behind Gone with the Wind and avatar.

#9. Star Wars was also the first ever science fiction film to be nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award, which is fitting because c-3po kind of looks like one of those statues don't you think.

#10. A new hope was what inspired a young James Cameron to quit his job as a truck driver and join the film industry in 1977.

#11. A new hope was the live-action movie debut of a young actor called Mark Hamill.

#12. Hamill was told about the Star Wars auditions by none other than Freddy Krueger himself. Robert England who very kindly did not viciously murder him in his sleep but encouraged him to try out for the role.

#13. Hamill plays Luke Skywalker the main protagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy, originally the character had the name Anakin Star killer which is not only needlessly aggressive but also doesn't make sense you can't really kill stars on your own but, then I guess you can't walk on the sky either.

#14. When we first meet him Skywalker is of moisture farmer on the desert planet of Tatooine. Tatooine was named after a town never set in Tunisia called Tatooine it's unknown whether or not there are real jobs there. 

#15. Though Episode 4 was also filmed in Guatemala California and the UK. The studio unfortunately did not have the budget to go into actual outer space which is a shame really.

#16. Filming in Tunisia was so hot they had to change c3po costume from plastic to fiberglass, so it wouldn't melt c-3po actor Anthony Daniels felt some uncomfortable in the suit. He seriously considered not doing the rest of the film which is understandable if you feel like you're walking around the desert in a golden slow-cooker.

#17. He did stick around though so much, so that he's the only actor to appear in all of the Star Wars films. It's not the old phrase goes once you go gold it never gets old if that's not a line in the new trilogy then I for one will be very disappointed.

#18. Another thing that appears in every Star Wars film is the phrase, I have a bad feeling about this hang on one of those was wrong.

#19. C-3po is not the only droid with a man inside him stop laughing about than that everybody's favorite bleeping dustbin R2-D2 is inhabited by English actor and stand-up comedian Kenny Baker.

#20. Apparently when the casting crew broke for lunch they would quite often forget that Baker was inside the R2-D2 suit and leave without him which is an image as tragic as it is funny.

#21. Arty's famous bloops and bloops were actually made by sound designer ben burtt mixing keyboard synthesizer sounds with himself imitating. The noises a baby makes when it's trying to speak if your baby does make R2-D2 noises please seek medical attention.

#22. Have you ever thought that a lightsaber sounds particularly like an old projector and television static combined, yes that's exactly how that all was made so well done you.

#23. Speaking of noises Chewbacca's famous growls aren't recorded sounds of somebody stepping on a plug but are actually manipulated recordings of animal noises. Ben Burtt collected the sounds of bears walruses lions and Badgers and combined them into the Wookie talk we all know and love.

#24. To back his role as the non-English speaking copilot was inspired by Lucas's dog sitting up in the front seat of his car ah in fact Chewbacca's name is derived from the Russian word for dog so Barca. whether or not Lucas's dog is 8 foot tall like Chewbacca is unknown but kind of unlikely.

#25. Chewbacca is one of the only fictional characters to ever receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the MTV Movie Awards, which probably says a lot more about MTV than it does Chewbacca.

#26. Chewbacca is played by English actor Peter Mayhew who is over 7 feet tall he says apparently all it took for him to get the role was for him to simply stand up show us.

#27. Before he played Chewie Mei he was an orderly at hospital in Yorkshire.

#28. Mark Hamill claims that studio executives were originally unhappy that Chewbacca was running around without clothes on and tried to give him shorts it quite obviously did not work. And Chewie is still as naked as the day he was born or hatched or spawned or wherever he came from where did he come from besides would you try to put clothes on him against his will.

#29. Everyone knows that Chewie can't be without his best friend Han Solo who has a giant green alien with gills or at least he would be if the original draft had stayed in place.

#30. Harrison Ford famously betrays Han they very nearly wasn't him George Lucas's first choice was actually the walking gold watch hiding place. Christopher Walken hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal at my house two years other actors on the SONA list included Jack Nicholson Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds.

#31. Harrison Ford did a lot of improve a solo across the trilogy not learning his lines for the intercom seem to make it seem more realistic and that the directors behest Adler big the now iconic line.

#32. Hands beloved ship the Millennium Falcon was inspired by a half-eaten hamburger on a plate than olive on the side by that logic the Death Star was probably inspired by malt easer or maybe even a kinder egg.

#33. The death star itself is a hundred and sixty kilometers in diameter and had a population of 1.7 million people that's definitely no moon yes thanks that you said that.

#34. It's not exaggerating to say that one of the biggest debates in the history of mankind is whether or not Han Solo shotcrete a first originally Greedo did not shoot at all but. George Lucas then changed this in the 1997 special edition so a small laser blast appeared from Bruno's gun because he felt without it hard it like a cold-blooded killer fans were outraged. At this so in 2004 it was really 'td again so they fire at a similar time oh wow that's sort now.

#35. Everybody's favorite member of royalty who looks like her hair has come out of a bakery Princess Leia is portrayed by Carrie Fisher.

#36. She was almost played by stars such as Sigourney Weaver Geena Davis and Sissy Spacek.

#37. Fish's breasts were taped down with gaffer tape as the flowing white costume she wore would unfortunately make her Brown look very visible assume space doesn't have lingerie but it does have tape interesting to know hope you're taking notes though NASA.

#38. In the scene in which Luke and Leia swing towards safety Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill actually did their own stunts it's unknown whether or not Harrison Ford did his own stunts but it's probably best he didn't, because you know he was the solo occupant of this small plane the crash occurred around 2:30 p.m.

#39. Despite the fact it's a major plot point Leia and obi-wan Kenobi never actually meet one another in a new hope she does see him from a distance however if that counts I've met Jennifer Lawrence in her own house.

#40. Obi-wan Kenobi actor Alec Guinness apparently said to his friends while making the film that it was fairytale rubbish with excruciating dialogue, but said that the end product was an exciting but noisy spectacle sorry Alec and Aidan's big like that talk.

#41. That being said for saying the excruciating dialogue in the noisy spectacle he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar so it wasn't that bad was it Guinness.

#42. In the scene in which Kenobi is shuffling around inside the Death Star at a great height he's actually only six feet off the ground the drop and the background is actually a painting.

#43. Bit of a spoiler alert for this one but since the film has been around for nearly 40 years it's your own fault if you haven't caught up famously in a new hope Kenobi appears to die at the hand of Darth Vader well either that or he pulls off a fabulous escape. Houdini would be jealous of Alec Guinness claims that Kenobi's death was his idea as he didn't want to be in any sequels but George Lucas says that he was angry. when he discovered the Kanodia was going to die so nobody knows the real story.

#44. Speaking of old death everybody's favorite asthmatic sounding warlord only has 12 minutes of screen time in a new hope.

#45. He's physically played by David Prowse while his booming voice is provided by James Earl Jones.

#46. Vader in Dutch means father which may or may not be a reference to an important plotline further down the road I don't want to go ruin that for you but well damn it.

#47. Well I guess with that spoiler we now have to move on to the next move in the franchise. The Empire Strikes Back Episode five made a whopping 538 million dollars at the box office worldwide.

#48. The film also won an Oscar for best sound design. 

#49. The scene set on ice planet hoth were filmed at a glacier in Finn's Norway quite often in sub-zero temperatures I bet the c-3po and Chewbacca actors were something delighted with their costumes

#50. That's weird.

#51. Han Solo gets his paws on a lightsaber in the opening act of the film becoming the only non-Jedi character to do so in the original trilogy.

#52. The Empire Strikes Back is also where the series introduces over microwaved pea look-alike and Jedi Master Yoda, who's named in the original script was Buffy we can see why they changed it you know defeating Seth and vampire slaying would be too much to do for one little guy.

#53. Yoda species is a complete mystery as it's never clarified which is odd considering there are over two hundred and forty-eight named alien races in the Star Wars canon.

#54. To put Yoda on the big screen the production team considered everything from a small child in a costume to even a monkey in a mask, as this pointing as it is that Grand Master Yoda isn't an ape in disguise they instead contacted Muppet ear Frank Oz the voice of Miss Piggy, and the Cookie Monster who helped create Yoda as a puppet and gave him his trademark voice.

#55. Scientists in 2012 have even bestowed Grand Master Yoda the ultimate honor and have named an oceanic worm after him it's called. The Yoda papa rata so called because its shape reminded them of Yoda's floppy little ears.

#56. The attacked Walker and tauntaun scenes were filmed using stop-motion animation techniques taking an hour per on-screen second or in other words, bloody ages one of those guys was Phil Tippet who then went on to be a dinosaur supervisor for the Jurassic Park series if only he had his head in the game then people died Phil people died.

#57. The noise the tauntauns make is actually a recording of an Asian sea otter called motor.

#58. The film went over budget by more than ten million dollars that that otter was a bit of a diva.

#59. Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher had such a height difference that Fisher had to stand on a box coil off the time just to appear in frame with him in the more intimate scenes, thank goodness your ensure we never got close or they'd need a crane.

#60. The famous no I am your father line the director only told Mark Hamill that this was the true line at the time of recording the scene the fake line ob1 called your father was given instead.

#61. Every time Luke appears upside down in this film he uses the force that rush of bender chlorines to the head must do the trick more on those later.

#62. 30 deaths appear on screen in episode 5 which sounds like a lot but actually if the lowest of the entire saga.

#63. With a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes The Empire Strikes Back is the critically highest rated of all the Star Wars movies.

#64. In 1983 episode 6 entitled Return of the Jedi was released.

#65. Twin Peaks director David Lynch was approached to direct Return of the Jedi but he declined saying he didn't like science fiction ironically a year, later he would go on to direct you a sci-fi movie now infamous for being such a huge box-office bomb.

#66. Steven Spielberg and weirdly body horror lover David Cronenberg were both also master direct both declined in the directing job went to Richard Marquand instead. Thank God Lord alone knows what Cronenberg would have done with those poor Ewoks if he got his hands on them.

#67. The film is codenamed blue harvest to avoid locations overcharging which happened several times in the production of The Empire Strikes Back.

#68. In the scene when c-3po is being attacked by Jabba the Hutt's pet thing salacious crumb Antony Jane uses cries areal as he's actually having a panic attack what a method actor.

#69. Carrie Fisher seemed to channel fan boys and perverts everywhere when she complained her costume in the previous two movies did not show off that she was a woman enough basically. It covered her body up too much this led to the now infamous Jabba slave-girl bikini she found herself in bikini was made of metal. So there had to be repeated reshoot sue to wardrobe malfunctions that they had to nip in the bud if you excuse the pun.

#70. Intergalactic slug hustler and Donald Trump look-alike Jabba the Hutt is one of the most expensive puppets ever made costing a staggering half a million dollars, he also took at least three people to physically operate including one lucky chap dedicated to his tail and you complain about your job.

#71. When Darth Vader is unmasked for the world to see it's actually the face of Sebastian Shaw a completely different actor to the person that's been playing him in the films up to that point oh he looks tired doesn't he a cup of tea mate will perk you up oh no way he's dead.

#72. Actually and apparently pitched ending to this scene involved Luke putting on Darth mask and becoming the new Darth Vader saying. I will across the rebels and I will rule the universe this admittedly badass moment was taken off the table when Lucas realized how incredibly depressing that ending is.

#73. Return of the Jedi also introduces us to the race of living teddy bears that are the Ewoks Wow am i cute one of those Ewoks is wicked played by actor Warwick Davis who was chosen because R2D2 actor Kenny Baker who was meant to be playing wicket got food poisoning on the day.

#74. The Ewoks are said to be named after the Native American tribe the Miwok who lived in the forest that doubled for Endor in the movie.

#75. Admiral Ackbar's voice was performed by radio actor Eric Bauer's field who apparently came up with the voice just by looking at a picture of the character.

#76. In the 2004 special edition DVD Sebastian Shaw's Anakin Skywalker force ghost is replaced with Hayden Christensen who played Anakin in the prequels oh yes speaking which.

#77. Yes in 1999 the prequel series of movies kicked off this time obeying the laws of mathematics and starting with episode 1 the Phantom Menace then episode 2 attack of the clones before ending on episode 3 Revenge of the Sith.

#78. When the trailer for the Phantom Menace debuted in 1998 many theaters reported people buying tickets for the movies watching the Star Wars trailer then leaving before the main film even begun the days of being a fanboy before YouTube sure sounded hard and expensive.

#79. Tom Hanks down to Washington Morgan Freeman and Kurt Russell were all considered for the parts of qui-gon jinn the Jedi played by Liam Neeson.

#80. In retrospect they may have wanted to go with one of those guys because Liam Neeson's height caused an extra 150,000 dollars in set construction cost the search were built to be only slightly taller than the actors. So the rest of the frame could be filled in with CGI but Liam was taller than they thought so they had to build more stuff he'd have thought just a few Neeson inches would end up costing so much.

#81. Tupac Shakur was a massive fan of Star Wars and was asked by George Lucas to audition for the role of mace windu his tragic death in 1996 meant this never came into fruition.

#82. Mace Windu went to tell me lo Jackson instead windy to lightsaber is unique in a couple of ways firstly it's purple which Jackson wanted, so he could identify himself in big battle scenes and made a sea of blue red and green sabers secondly it apparently has the words bad brother KITT engraved on it - because samuel l. Jackson apparently can't use any prop that doesn't have that written on it.

#83. You and McGregor plays obi-wan Kenobi in the Phantom Menace he apparently kept making lightsaber noises whenever he filmed battle scenes so he had to gently be reminded that they would be added on later.

#84. The Gorgas brother Colin is an RAF pilot who apparently works under the codename Obi - do you see what they did there 1 & 2 IP 1 & 2 further given that.

#85. The Phantom Menace also introduced the world to one of the most beloved characters in the history of film Jar Jar Binks he's played by Ahmed best who performance captures and voices him and in one of the greatest film mysteries of all time was shamefully not nominated for any award for his performances I'll be thinking Academy.

#86. Horney Sith master Darth Maul has a total of 10 horns on his head and only blinks once throughout the entire film he was also voiced by comedic actor Peter Serafinowicz.

#87. The preak was introduced the idea of midi-chlorians the bizarre idea of talking blood cells that live inside humans and tell them what the force wants them to do, and I'll let Neeson take over from here life-forms living together for mutual advantage without the midi-chlorians life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the force just walk.

#88. A terrifyingly voiced Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku in attack of the clones his name is a reference to the Japanese name for poison but it had to be changed to do kin in Brazil. Because in Portuguese Dooku means from the ass which is a far less imposing before more hilarious name remember.

#89. Hair-gelled boy band NSYNC were originally going to appear in attacks. The clones after George Lucas's daughter harassed him to include them but they had to say barber bye to those scenes after they were cut because of fan outcry.

#90. Episode two is working title was jar jar's big adventure which was probably in the hope that if anybody found a leaked version with that title they would rather shoot themselves in the head then watch anything with that name.

#91. With a budget of 120 million dollars attack of the clones is the most expensive Star Wars film ever made so far.

#92. For episode 3 Hayden Christensen gained 24 pounds by eating six meals a day so if you're thinking of being a Sith Lord and pack on those pounds and get on that ice cream.

#93. Every single Clone Trooper in episode three is CGI none of them were physically made.

#94. Originally in Episode three a young Han Solo was meant to appear and be seen living with wookies like a furry Brady Bunch but later this was cut.

#95. The original cut of Episode three was a bum numbing four hours long which is enough to turn anyone to the dark side.

#96. The Star Wars franchise in total has made 12 billion dollars in toys our revenue at least 10 of those millions must have come from Jar Jar masks.

#97. The 4th of May is now celebrated worldwide as international Star Wars day because as the old phrase goes may the 4th of May be with you.

#98. The first in the new sequel trilogy of films the force awakens will be released in December of 2015 you'll be able to tell when it's out from the floods floods either caused by tears of sweet sweet joy or tears of crushing unbearable disappointment.

#99. It'll be directed by lens flare lover and ultimate geek director JJ Abrams who is also in the co-writers chair too if they had chairs for that I don't imagine they were right standing up today I guess they must.

#100. The first trailer for the movie set a new world record for being the most viewed trailer in its first 24 hours that's a staggering 30 point 65 million views in its first day that's like if everybody in Hawaii watched it 30 times each which to be fair they probably did.