Ten Things I Bet You Didn't Know About Star Wars

Because Random Is our Specialty

10. Lucas killed off Chewbacca. It was in a book written by R.A. Salvatore. They decided they wanted to kill off a well known character so people would take the books more seriously, so they called Lucas and sent him over a list of characters they wanted to torture and ultimately kill and he sent them back with a list of characters they COULD NOT kill and chewy didn’t make the cut.


9. Ewoks spoke Tibetan. In the movie the director had them speaking Tibetan with just a hint of Nepalese. As a bonus DYK that Lando’s pilot Nien Nunb spoke Haya a Tanzanian dialect and the Jawas in the original film spoke Zulu…they just sped it up some.


8. Jabba’s dancing Girl has a Nipple slip in Return Of The Jedi. The Twilek dancing girl named Oola dances to the song Lapti Nek she ends up having a wardrobe malfunction and slips out a nipple. Surprisingly Lucas opted to keep it in.


7. The director of Captain America created Bobba Fett.  Or at least his armor. Another DYK bonus Darth Vader was supposed to be a bounty hunter but when he became a fallen Jedi instead Lucas recycled the Bounty Hunter Idea and ta-da! Another bonus is Lucas was planning on revealing Bobba and Vader were brothers in the second film but decided it was too “hooky”.


6. You can see Bobba Fett’s face Helmet-Free in the Empire Strikes Back. The actor who plays Fett Jeremy Bulloch had to fill in for an actor who had fallen ill and became the Imperial Lt who captured the Princess during her attempted escape at Bespin.


5. Wedge Antilles is Obi-Wan’s uncle. Or at leas the actor who played wedge is the uncle of Obi-Wan’s actor. Another Bonus DYK- Wedge is the only background character to survive all three major battles in the original trilogy.


4. Greedo was a woman. At least when the filming was done in the U.S. When they were filming in the U.K the actor was a man.


3. The cheapest set in The Empire Strikes Back? The inside of the space slug. It consisted of black plastic on the floor, black curtains, and a fog machine. SHWEET


2. If George Lucas would’ve directed Apocolypse Now he would’ve skipped making Star Wars.  He was in line to do the project but his Mentor ended up doing it. BONUS DYK- His mentors daughter as well as Keira Knightly are Padme’s Maids in The Phantom Menace.


1.Han Solo was originally a green-skinned alien with gills.  He would’ve been an undercover operative instead of a smuggler and all around rogue. And in that version Han was going to be Luke and Leia’s friend throughout most of the film.