1. Princess Leia never actually gets to 'meet' General Obi Wan Kenobi. She sees him from afar when she's escaping the Death Star as Obi-Wan is about to let Darth Vader kill him but that's it. Unless you count Obi-Wan being present for her birth in Revenge of the Sith...then she never met him.
2. Anthony Daniels, who voiced C3P0 and climbed into the tin suit, is the only actor to appear in all 8 Star Wars films - you have to count The Clone Wars animated film of course! Kenny Baker did not actually film anything for Revenge of the Sith, his parts were a mix of CGI and footage recycled from Attack of the Clones. In The Force Awakens, Artoo was a mix of manual robot and CGI as Baker was too aged to perform. RIP Kenny.
3. Empire was the first movie to have a number by its title in the opening credits being 'V'. The original Star War was not called A New Hope or Episode 4, this came later. 
4. As General Kenobi is about to leave to hunt down General Grevious, he shares a nice moment with Anakin which finishes with a very loving, 'Good bye old friend' from Kenobi. This is the last time in the movie the two Jedi converse as friends. A key thing is the lighting - Anakin in the dark and Obi Wan in the light - it is a literal case of foreshadowing what was to come.
5. Bail Organa and Yoda step into the hallway of Organa's ship and have a nice coversation about being rebels or something in Sith. It's the actual ship that Darth Vader boards to capture Princess Leia Organa in the start of A New Hope.
6. Darth Vader has his own theme song written by John Williams. Known as the Imperial March it was introduced in the Empire movie and used in Jedi and in the prequels to show when Anakin was turning to the dark side of the Force.
7. In a New Hope, Leia was kept as Tarkin's prisoner on the Death Star in cell number 2187. This was a deliberate choice as 2187 is the year that the Lucas directed film THX 1138, was set. 
8. The furry Ewoks were a late addition to the Star Wars mythology in Jedi. Their part in the story was to be played by the Wookiees, but by the time Lucas and his production partners sat down to write Return of The Jedi, they realized that, because Chewbacca could fly the Millennium Falcon, repair the ship and operate pretty much any weapon or machine in the known universe, they'd made the Wookiees too technologically advanced for the plot.
9. Wedge Antilles really is Obi-Wan Kenobi's Uncle!
10. In Jedi, listen very carefully as Darth Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him down the Death Star shaft. This is the only time the Jedi theme music plays over a shot of Vader, reflecting his return to the light side of the Force. 
11. It's a myth the Wampa was created to allow for Luke's rearranged face after a car accident. Mark Hamill was injured prior to the filming of The Empire Strikes Back. This is fact though. The myth is that due to his face being rearranged, Lucas had to re-write the Hoth events to include the Wampa attacking Luke to account for his injury. The truth is that no accommodations were made for Hamill’s face. The myth is probably stoked by this moment from Empire that was unused.
12. After appearing in Jedi, Wedge Antilles becomes the only X-wing pilot character (apart from Luke) who survives all three major battles in the films. Luke of course only two part in two of those battles as a pilot.
13. On the Hoth planet Rebel base - that dude to which Han Solo retorts, "Then I'll see you in Hell!" just before he heads out to find a certain missing Jedi? That's Cliff Clavin from Cheers AKA John Ratzenberger. These days he does voice acting in most Pixar movies.
14. Anakin Skywalker really is the ‘Chosen one’. While Yoda and Mace Windu may have thought a mistake had been made in the reading of the prophecy, Anakin was the one who actually killed Sith Lord Palpatine by throwing him down the Death Star’s reactor shaft in Jedi and thus restored balance to the Force.
15. Harrison Ford famously was never intended to be Han Solo, he was just hanging around after American Graffitti and was helping other actors read their lines as Lucas was in the casting process. Eventually Lucas wised up and realised Harrison already had the part down cold. 
16. After Padme dies, she is returned to Naboo for burial - her body has been altered to make it appear like she was still pregnant - this is all part of the ruse to kept the existence of Leia and Luke a secret 
17. The famous reveal of the father and son relationship between Vader and Luke in The Empire Strikes Back is often misquoted as "Luke, I am your father". The line is actually "No, I am your father". 
18. "It's a trap," which is arguably the most famous line in the ROTJ, was, incredibly, not in the screenplay. The line was scripted as "It's a trick!" and was later changed post-filming after a test screening because, let's face it, "it's a trick" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Anyway, Leia said it first in The Empire Strikes Back.
19. While Return of the Jedi saw Luke return the favour to Vader and cut his arm off, the idea for it actually came from the expanded universe novel, ‘Splinter of the Mind's Eye’. This book was intended to be turned into a sequel to Star Wars but when that movie became so popular, the idea was abandoned. Vader was actually the only Star Wars film character to lose an arm three times! And both his legs as well. Obi Wan Kenobi got 3 of his limbs in Revenge of the Sith!
20. James Earl Jones is famed for providing the voice for Vader however he didn't do the famous breathing effect. This was done by Ben Burt placing a microphone inside the mouth piece of a breathing apparatus and recording it being used.
21. Alan Rickman auditioned for the role of Moff Jerjerrod.
22. George Lucas at one stage considered using the great actor and director Orsen Welles as the voice actor for Darth Vader.
23. It's a myth that George Lucas had 12 films all mapped out before the first Star Wars was released. That’s the legend but the mythology of it has grown over the years. The nutshell is that Lucas wrote a great deal of material when he was developing his little sci-fi adventure. Based around a so called “Journal of Whills”, Lucas script eventually was cut up and Star Wars as we know it was filmed. It was not until Empire Strikes Back came out that the term Episode 5 was mentioned officially. Lucas’s grand vision was actually pieced together over several years in very broad strokes. The 12 or 9 films as most people know of were never fully scripted but were largely imaginings of Lucas that were eventually firmly realized well after 1977.
24. In ROTS, a quick character cameo occurs when Vader and the Emperor are standing on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, overlooking the initial construction stage of the Death Star. In a blink an you'll miss it moment, a young Moff Tarkin quietly sidles up to the Sith Lords. Moff Tarkin features heavily in A New Hope, it is he who orders the destruction of the planet Alderaan.
25. During the opera scene of ROTS, Palpatine tells Anakin about how Darth Plagueis was so powerful he could create life. While it's never made explicit, the film could have been suggesting that Darth Plagueis caused the 'immaculate conception' of Anakin Skywalker. The Expanded Universe novels show that Plagueis certainly was capable of such an amazing act...
26. Jedi was originally going to be called Revenge of the Jedi until Lucas decided that Jedi do not seek revenge. This was quite late in the production so there was a lot of promotional gear with the title already printed on it. 
27. Mark Hamill received a black eye when filming the famous 'Dianoga' attack in the Trash Compactor scene from A New Hope which meant he was filmed from one side only for the rest shooting that scene.
28. Princess Leia was subject to one of the most famous ad libs in cinema history - that being Han Solo's response to her declaration of love - "I know". Harrison Ford apparently made it up at Irvine Kershner's suggestion. Leia got to return the line in Jedi during the Battle of Endor. 
29. E.T. made a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace. 
30. If you asked the average Star Wars fan what was Leia’s home world, they would be correct in answering the planet Alderraan and they could go to the head of the class. If you asked the most hard core fan, they might also quickly add that Leia and Luke were actually born at a medical facility on Polissa Massa – if you’ve seen Revenge of the Sith you might recall that is where Obi Wan Kenobi took the injured Padme for medical assistance. 
31. Darth Vader has only 12 minutes of screen time in A New Hope!
32. The famous reveal of the father and son relationship between Vader and Luke is often misquoted as "Luke, I am your father". The line is actually "No, I am your father".
33. Hayden Christensen  appeared as the costumed Vader in Revenge of the Sith. He apparently begged Lucas to let him play him.
34. While Return of the Jedi saw Luke return the favour to Vader and cut his arm off, the idea for it actually came from the expanded universe novel, ‘Splinter of the Mind's Eye’. This book was intended to be turned into a sequel to Star Wars but when that movie became so popular, the idea was abandoned.
35. Vader was actually the only Star Wars film character to lose an arm three times! And both his legs as well. Obi Wan Kenobi got 3 of his limbs in Revenge of the Sith! (he had the higher ground...).
36. James Earl Jones is famed for providing the voice for Vader however he didn't do the famous breathing effect. This was done by Ben Burt placing a microphone inside the mouth piece of a breathing apparatus and recording it being used. 
37. George Lucas at one stage considered using the great Orsen Welles as the voice actor for Darth.
38. Han Solo grabs Princess Leia’s breasts in the middle of the Battle of Endor. He was perhaps checking she was still wearing this. 
39. When Jango Fett gets into his ship after his fight with Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones, he bangs his head on the open door. This was intentional, and is a reference to a famous goof from the orginal movie where a cloned storm trooper accidentally bangs his head on a door (the clone being the descendant of Jango Fett and having inherited this character trait). 
40. Carrie Fisher has spoken many times of her struggles with bipolar disorder. You wouldn't wish this on any anybody. 
41. Harrison Ford and Fisher had an affair during the film of A New Hope. Ford was married at the time. 
42. Leia's character has her own musical theme titled "Princess Leia's Theme". It is represented by the musical leitmotif method which is famously used across the films. The piece was composed by John Williams and was used several times. It first appeared in A New Hope, heard when Princess Leia is captured by the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader. Later, it surfaces as R2-D2 plays her holographic message to Obi-Wan Kenobi. The also theme plays when Kenobi is killed by Vader and it makes an appearance in the credits of the movie. It also is used in the two follow up movies and the Revenge of the Sith prequel when her adoptive father Bail Organa introduces her to her adoptive mother. 
43. In the original drafts of Star Wars, Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were definitely different people - it wasn’t until the development of script for The Empire Strikes Back that the two were combined as one character. This means Darth Vader does not mean Dark Father and the name was not a hint as to Luke's parentage.
44. Lord Vader’s famous leitmotif theme music is known as The Imperial March and was not introduced until Empire Strikes Back.
45. It's a myth that Splinter of the Mind's Eye was the scripted sequel to A New Hope. The truth is the book ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye’ was commissioned by Lucas as a potential sequel to Star Wars. The myth is that the novel was written based off a script written by George Lucas. There was no written script at all - Alan Dean Foster was writing the novelisation of Star Wars and also a second book. He was as simply instructed by Lucas to write the book based off some ideas and film treatments that George threw at him. Lucas could then turn it into a film script down the line, if he so chose. The reality is that when Star Wars 'went global' Lucas changed gears and the sequel script was first drafted by Leigh Bracket, which after her death from cancer, Lucas refined further with help from Lawrence Kasdan.
46. Boba Fett was first seen in The Empire Strikes Back right? Nope, technically his first appearance was in an animated segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special. It is the only good part of that movie. 
47. Bobba also actually made his first public appearance in a Star Wars street parade before either movie!
48. Frank Oz who is the voice for the most famous little green guy in cinema history, Yoda was also the voice of the Muppet’s Miss Piggy. It was because of his talents that he developed with Jim Henson that saw him get the call up. He also did the puppetry. 
49. A very early draft of the Emire saw Han Solo going in search of his Father-In-Law, Ovan Marekal, who has political ties with Lord Vader.
50. In Revenge of the Sith Darth Vader's head was symmetrical for the first time in a Star Wars film. It was developed using precise machinery - the original was hand sculpted and was mildly aspherical!
51. The classic "The first transport is away!" line from Empire Strikes Back was delivered by Mark Hamill. 
52. George Lucas took a lot of his inspiration from a film called The Hidden Fortress. It featured a pair of bickering sidekicks who served as comic relief and crucially managed to help keep the plot ticking along. Lucas adopted this concept and applied it to the robots.
53. C3PO's most famous quote is perhaps "I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: let the Wookie win." which pretty much speaks for itself!
54. The original drafts for Star Wars show that the Skywalker family was actually called Starkiller. Indeed the drafts featured a General Starkiller and didn’t focus on the young moisture farmer from Tatooine. His son was called Deak. He eventually became Luke.
55. In ESB's original script treatment Luke Skywalker flies to the 'Bog' Planet where he meets a frog-like Jedi named 'Minch', who teaches him the ways of the force. That's right, Yoda was frog-like and was going to be called Minch. Can you image it, "But Master Minch, you cannot die!" 
56. A lot of people miss it, thinking the C3PO is totally golden but his right leg is silver from beneath the knee joint. In The Force Awakens he had a red arm for a time but at the end of the movie has gone back to gold.
57. R2D2 stands at a height of 96cm.
58. George Lucas made his first Star Wars cameo in Revenge of the Sith. He dressed as a Pantoran senator, Baron Papanoida. You might not have recognised him as he all dressed up in blue body paint! His daughter also cameoed with him at the same time. His son Jedi appears as a padwan Jedi that is killed by the Stormtroopers as he attempts to make contact with Bail Organa. 
59. The Bantha milk drank by Luke and Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru in A New Hope is blue. 
60. Coincidentally or not, the filming code name for Return of the Jedi was Blue Harvest.
61. Ralph McQuarrie designed C3PO by taking liberty with the Maschinenmensch design from the film Metropolis. Robby the Robot also was an inspiration for the protocol droid aspect.
62. When Anakin is slaughtering the Tusken Raider in Attack of the Clones, Qui-Gon's voice can be heard in the background. This is no accident as Qui-Gon Jinn's Force-Ghost was trying to stop Anakin's rage, but clearly failed.
63. The characters of R2 and C3PO were so popular they had their own animated television series for a short time and once appeared in episodes of The Muppets and Sesame Street where R2 oddly appeared to fall in love with a fire hydrant!
64. The planet name of 'Coruscant' was created by Star Wars author Timothy Zahn for his book Heir to The Empire. George Lucas liked the name and included shots of Coruscant, the Imperial Capital at the end of the Return of the Jedi movie. It then featured in the prequels. The main character Thrawn from those books eventually featured in the third season of Star Wars: Rebels.
65. R2D2 served several masters - starting with Padme, Anakin, Bail Organa, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and for a time, Jabba the Hutt... In the expanded universe R2 accompanies the descendants of Skywalker on many adventures.
66. The two robots are the subject of Obi Wan's most famous quote, "These aren't the droids you're looking for". This line has became a common phrase used to indicate that the issue or matter being discussed is not relevant, often said with a knowing wave of the hand...
67. Rogue One is the first big screen Star Wars movie that John Williams has not recorded the score for. Michael Giacchino composed the music for Rogue One.
68. It was Donnie Yen's idea for his Rogue One character Chirrut Imwe to be blind. Director Gareth Edwards thought it was cool and ran with it. Yen initially turned down the role when it was first offered to him however when he told his kids about the chance, they were so excited, he changed his mind.
69. Han Solo’s space ship the Millennium Falcon has a cameo appearance in Revenge of the Sith. It is seen landing on Coruscant.
70. It was Return of the Jedi’s director Richard Marquand who came up with the idea of having Leia turn up to Jabba’s Palace as a disguised bounty hunter. He also suggested that Leia should strangle Jabba the Hutt. 
71. When Luke claims Chewbacca is a prisoner transfer from cell block. 1138, this is a direct reference to George Lucas’s first film, THX 1138. That film was about a dystopian future where a authoritarian regime was in control – a not to dissimilar state of affairs in Star Wars.
72. Han Solo’s “I know” line in response to Leia’s declaration of love as adlibbed by Harrison Ford. It’s become an iconic Star Wars quote and is arguably just as popular as Ackbar's "it's a trap".
73. Speaking of "it's a trap" it is usually ascribed to Ackbar however, Leia called it out first to Luke in Empire Strikes Back on Cloud City.
74. "I've got a bad feeling about this" or a variation of it is spoken in every movie.
75. R2D2 is taller than the Ewok 'Wicket' from ROTJ.
76. Mace Windu is the only Jedi in any film to wield a purple colored lightsaber. Here's some of his quotes from the prequels.
77. None of the Star Wars films have credits at the beginning of them. This actually became a really big deal and meant Lucas quit various film institutions such as the Director's Guild and Stars Wars films were considered independent movies.
78. R2D2 and C3PO were snuck into a scene in Indianna Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark as well as JJ Abrams' two Star Trek films.
79. The Phantom Menace's production sets were built only as high as the tops of the actors' heads and computer graphics filled in the rest. But it was realised that Liam Neeson was so tall that they needed to build things taller and this cost the production another $150,000 in construction costs.
80. That particular Jedi stands at a tall height of 1.93 meters.
81. Quote said to Jar Jar: "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get out of here." Many Star Wars fans wish he paid attention. 
82. Phantom Menace is the only film in the series in which the top-credited actor plays a non-recurring character, and in which the top-credited character dies.
83. What's in a name? The name "Qui Gon" derives from an ancient Chinese system of alternative medicine called "Qigong". The word "Jinn" refers to the "Djinn" o rthe so called genies of Arabian myth.
84. Qui-Gon was actually a padawan of Count Dooku.
85. E.T. creatures made a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace
86. Darth Maul has ten horns on his red head. 
87. While Ray Park is famous as playing the Sith Lord, Peter Serafinowicz actually voiced the character. Benicio Del Toro was originally cast to play Darth Maul but he abandoned the role after George Lucas decided to trim Darth Maul's screen time in the film. Benicio del Toro was originally cast but dropped out. He has a part in Star Wars VIII.
88. Actor Hayden Christiansen played Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith as opposed to David Prowse who previously did the role. Hayden apparently begged Lucas to let him play him. The suit had to be designed to accommodate his smaller stature than Prowse's. Not that Lucas would have cast Prowse as he appears to have something against him.
89. The sound of the hovering battle tanks used by the battle droids in The Phantom Menace was created by running an electric razor around a metal salad bowl and then digitally lowering the pitch.
90. In Attack of the Clones, Jar Jar Binks stands in for Senator Amidala and puts forth the motion that gives Palpatine supreme powers. This means that Jar Jar, one of the most universally hated characters in the Star Wars films is unwittingly responsible for the fall of the Old Republic and the downfall of the Jedi.
91. Revenge of the Sith featured 4 hands being cut off in the film. Anakin loses one to Obi Wan, Mace Windu loses one to Anakin and Obi-Wan cuts two of General Grievous' hands off.
92. The sound effect when Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber is kicked down the reactor shaft in the climatic battle with Darth Maul, is the same sound effect heard when Luke Skywalker throws his lightsaber away in Return of the Jedi when he tells the Emperor that he is a Jedi, like his father before him!
93. In Rogue One the planet Jedha features a place known as the 'Temple of the Whills'. This is a great reference to some obscure Star Wars trivia - The Journal of the Whills was a formal record of history, maintained by a beings known as The Whills. During the original Star Wars writing period, George Lucas had the idea that R2D2 relayed the stories he knew to the Whills so that the Skywalker saga could be recorded for all time.
94. R2D2 was infamously given the ability to fly in the prequel films which bugged many fans (despite the fun he had on screen). This was rather roughly explained in other fiction that after the Clone Wars the company responsible for the development of his boosters went out of business. When his rocket boosters were damaged they were unable to be repaired.
95. Every clone trooper in Revenge of the Sith is a creation of CGI. No clone costumes or helmets were manufactured for filming.
96. The shipping title of Phantom Menace was "The Doll House", Clones was "Cue Ball" and Sith, "The Bridge".
97. The Phantom Menace was the first Star Wars film to be released on DVD.
98. When Jango Fett gets into his ship after his fight with Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones, he bangs his head on the open door. This was intentional, and is a reference to a famous goof from the orginal movie where a cloned storm trooper accidentally bangs his head on a door (the clone being the descendant of Jango Fett and having inherited this character trait).
99. "Phantom Menace" was the name of a villain in the "Flash Gordon" comics. Which shouldn't surprise too many people as George Lucas has often cited Flash Gordon as one of his inspirations for making the original Star Wars. In the film of Flash Gordon, Max von Sydow played villain, Ming the Merciless. Sydow will now have a role in Episode 7.
100. Revenge of the Sith is the only film thus far that does not feature R2D2 in the final shot.
101. Ewoks were a late addition to the Star Wars mythology. Their part in the story was to be played by the Wookiees, but by the time Lucas and his production partners sat down to write Return of The Jedi, they realized that, because Chewbacca could fly the Millennium Falcon, repair the ship and operate pretty much any weapon or machine in the known universe, they'd made the Wookiees too technologically advanced for the plot.
102. "It's a trap," which is arguably the most famous line in Return of the Jedi, was, incredibly, not in the screenplay. The line was scripted as "Its a trick!" and was later changed post-filming after a test screening because, let's face it, "it's a trick" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
103. Admiral Ackbar's backstory is that he was once the slave of Grand Moff Tarkin, as well as his personal pilot.
104. In the DVD 2004 release of Jedi, Sebastian Shaw (older Anakin Skywalker) is replaced in the celebration scene by Hayden Christensen. A lot of fans were not happy about this.
105. Darth Vader's funeral pyre scene on Endor was added at the very last moment, long after principle photography and pick-ups had wrapped. The scene was thrown together and shot near the hills of Skywalker Ranch.
106. It took six people to work the full-sized animatronic of Jabba the Hutt. The frogs he ate were not real.
107. Jedi was the first Star Wars film to show a light saber combat something other than another light saber. On Jabba's Sail Barge, Luke fights the guards  bearing staffs and blasters. This perhaps a call back to the original movie where Luke wears a blaster helmet and tries to anticipate blast shots from the Remote on the Millennium Falcon. This shows the progress Luke has made as a Jedi Knight.
108. Speaking of that Remote, it makes a return in The Force Awakens. Finn finds it when he is looking for first aid to help Chewbacca.
109. A venerable if maverick Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn was a student of the living Force. Unlike other Jedi Masters, who often lose themselves in the meditation of the unifying Force, Qui-Gon Jinn lived for the moment, espousing a philosophy of "feel, don't think -- use your instincts."
110. Jedi was originally going to be called Revenge of the Jedi until Lucas decided that Jedi do not seek revenge. This was quite late in the production so there was a lot of promotional gear with the title already printed on it.
111. Craig Daniel, better known as James Bond 007 was the Stormtrooper that freed Rey in The Force Awakens.

Star Wars Prequel facts and triva that any fan needs to know

1. E.T. creatures made a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace
2. The Millennium Falcon is spied landing on Coruscant in Revenge of the Sith. This was prior to Lando or Han Solo owning it!
3. Darth Maul has ten horns on his red head. While Ray Park is famous as playing the Sith Lord, Peter Serafinowicz actually voiced the character. Benicio Del Toro was originally cast to play Darth Maul but he abandoned the role after George Lucas decided to trim Darth Maul's screen time in the film. Benicio del Toro was originally cast but dropped out due to being a pussy. Actually, we take that back as del Toro is up for a role in Star Wars VIII.
4. Hayden Christiansen played Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith as opposed to David Prowse who previously did the role. Hayden apparently begged Lucas to let him play him. The suit had to be designed to accommodate his smaller stature than Prowse's.
5. The sound of the hovering battle tanks used by the battle droids in The Phantom Menace was created by running an electric razor around a metal salad bowl and then digitally lowering the pitch.
6. In Attack of the Clones, Jar Jar Binks stands in for Senator Amidala and puts forth the motion that gives Palpatine supreme powers. This means that Jar Jar, one of the most universally hated characters in the Star Wars films is unwittingly responsible for the fall of the Old Republic and the downfall of the Jedi. 
7. Revenge of the Sith featured hands being cut off in the film. Anakin loses one to Obi Wan, Mace Windu loses one to Anakin, and Obi-Wan cuts two of General Grievous' hands off and Dooku looses two to Anakin. 
8. The sound effect when Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber is kicked down the reactor shaft in the climatic battle with Darth Maul, is the same sound effect heard when Luke Skywalker throws his lightsaber away in Return of the Jedi . You know, when he tells the Emperor that he is a Jedi, like his father before him!
9. George Lucas made his first and only Star Wars cameo in Revenge of the Sith. He dressed as a Pantoran senator, Baron Papanoida. You might not have recognised him as he all dressed up in blue body paint! His daughter also cameoed with him at the same time.
10. When Anakin is slaughtering the Tusken Raider in Attack of the Clones, Qui-Gon's voice can be heard in the background. This is no accident as Qui-Gon Jinn's Force-Ghost was trying to stop Anakin's rage, but clearly failed.
11. Every clone trooper in Revenge of the Sith is a creation of CGI. No clone costumes or helmets were manufactured for filming.
12. The shipping title of Phantom Menace was "The Doll House", Clones was "Cue Ball" and Sith, "The Bridge".
13. Phantom Menace was the first Star Wars film to be released on DVD.
14. When Jango Fett gets into his ship after his fight with Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones, he bangs his head on the open door. This was intentional, and is a reference to a famous goof from the orginal movie where a cloned storm trooper accidentally bangs his head on a door (the clone being the descendant of Jango Fett and having inherited this character trait).
15. "Phantom Menace" was the name of a villain in the "Flash Gordon" comics. Which shouldn't surprise too many people as George Lucas has often cited Flash Gordon as one of his inspirations for making the original Star Wars.
16. Revenge of the Sith is the only film thus far that does not feature R2D2 in the final shot.

Jabba the Hutt quotes from Return of the Jedi and the Special Edition of A New Hope

Possibly the most famous frog eating slug to grace the silver screen, Jabba the Hutt is one of the great Star Wars bad guys.

He was the crime lord who placed a bounty on Han Solo’s head after he failed to complete a smuggling assignment – and thus he was first mentioned in A New Hope as he had employed bounty hunter Greedo to find Solo.

He was a pretty quotable character.

Jabba was featured as the antagonist in the first third of Return of the Jedi and in doing so became one of the iconic Stat Wars characters and in modern culture has become a simple of corpulence and greed.


'Jabba Desilijic Tiure' as he is formally known, made some great quotes during the Return of the Jedi and here 's the best of them:

• I will not give up my favorite decoration. I like Captain Solo where he is.
• This Bounty Hunter is my kind of scum, fearless and inventive.
• You weak minded fool! He’s using an old Jedi mind trick.
• There will be no bargain, young Jedi. I shall enjoy watching you die.
• You will soon learn to appreciate me
• Bring me Solo and the Wookiee. They will all suffer for this outrage!

Jabba, Irvine and presumably some puppeteers

Jabba's 'A New Hope' quotes

Jabba was also snuck into a short scene with Han Solo in the Special Edition of A New Hope and had some quotable banter with the space pirate. They were discussing why Han hadn't paid his debt.

• Han my boy, you disappoint me. Why haven’t you paid me and why did you fry poor Greedo?
• Han, I can’t make exceptions. What if everyone who smuggled for me dropped their cargo at the first sign of an Imperial starship?

Concept art for Mr J. Hutt

Extra for Experts about Jabba

• The original script to A New Hope describes Jabba as a "fat, slug-like creature with eyes on extended feelers and a huge ugly mouth". 
• Jabba the Hutt was played by actor Declan Mulholland in scenes cut from the 1977 release of Star Wars. 
• That character was filmed as a fully costumed actor suggests that director George Lucas had changed his mind about Jabba being a slug - presumably for design constraints or budget reasons. 
• In Return of the Jedi, Jabba is portrayed by a one-ton puppet that took three months and half a million dollars to construct. While filming the movie, the puppet had its own makeup artist. 
• The puppet required three puppeteers to operate, making it one of the largest ever used in a motion picture.
• Jabba the Hutt's death in Return of the Jedi was suggested by script writer Lawrence Kasdan. The film's director, Richard Marquand suggested that Leia strangled him.
• Jabba had a small cameo in The Phantom Menace where he fell asleep during the famous Pod Race.
• People often remark about that laughing little critter who he kept by his side in Jedi. He was Jabba's court jester of a sort and is known by the delicious name of Salacious Crumb.

Extra for experts - Check out this person I met wearing a Jabba costume which is handy for parties!

Fisher in a Playboy Bunny costume

Is it true that Carrie Fisher appeared in Playboy Magazine?

On doing a nude scene with Warren Beatty in the film Shampoo:

On Vader being gay:

On Debbie Reynold's breasts:

The three key themes of JJ's The Force Awakens

Blood is thicker than water

Red Dead Redemption

There has been an Awakening

Rogue One is indeed a military call sign. It refers to the U-Xwing that Jyn's crew rides out on.

The call sign actually echoes Luke Skywalker’s Rogue Squadron which was first shown in The Empire Strikes Back. Luke leads Rogue Squadron during the Battle of Hoth. In the wider Star Wars universe, and featured in many novels.




Wedge Antilles featured heavily as the leader of the squad which proved popular and so the legacy of the name has stayed with Star Wars fans. 

This concept is very similar to the famous war movie, The Dirty Dozen where the rogues of that movie were sent on a suicide mission in return for their freedom (this is why we think a lot of the characters will die during the movie).

So the meaning of Rogue One is that it is a reference to the character of Jyn Erso.

“…this is the first film that’s gone off-piste and is not part of the saga – or the Anakin story – so it’s the ‘rogue’ one, you know?”

What were Darth Vader's last words to his son Luke Skywalker?

Don't ask about what's happening here.

13 lucky facts about the making of the Return of the Jedi

1. Ewoks were a late addition to the Star Wars mythology. Their part in the story was to be played by the Wookiees, but by the time Lucas and his production partners sat down to write Return of The Jedi, they realized that, because Chewbacca could fly the Millennium Falcon, repair the ship and operate pretty much any weapon or machine in the known universe, they'd made the Wookiees too technologically advanced for the plot.
2. Yoda was to sit this one out, but he was added after consultation with child psychologists helped George Lucas decide he needed an independent character to confirm Darth Vader's claim that he is Luke Skywalker's father. Now you know why Yoda doesn't do much for the rest of the movie. That and the fact he died of old age.
3. "It's a trap," which is arguably the most famous line in the movie, was, incredibly, not in the screenplay. The line was scripted as "It's a trick!" and was later changed post-filming after a test screening because, let's face it, "it's a trick" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
4. Admiral Ackbar's backstory is that he was once the slave of Grand Moff Tarkin, as well as his personal pilot. This is no longer canon. 
5. Ben Kingsley, who played the title role in the 1982 movie Gandhi, read for the role of Emperor Palpatine and “was considered ‘very English.’ That said, Palpatine was eventually played be Englishman Ian McDiarmid...
6. David Lynch was originally offered the chance to direct this episode of the series. He turned it down because he believed it was "Lucas' thing." He went on to direct Dune instead.
7. In the DVD 2004 release, Sebastian Shaw (older Anakin Skywalker) is replaced in the celebration scene by Hayden Christensen. Many fans did not understand, nor appreciate this.
8. Darth Vader's funeral pyre was added at the very last minute, long after principle photography and pick-ups had wrapped. The scene was thrown together and shot near the hills of Skywalker Ranch.
9. It took six people to work the full-sized animatronic of Jabba the Hutt.
10. This is the first Star Wars film to show a lights saber combat something other than another light saber. Luke on the Sail Barge fights guards with staffs and blasters. This perhaps a call back to the original movie where Luke wears a blaster helmet and tries to anticipate shots from the Remote on the Millennium Falcon. This shows the progress Luke has made as a Jedi Knight.
11. Listen very carefully as Darth Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him down the Death Star shaft. This is the only time the Jedi theme music plays over a shot of Vader, reflecting his return to the light side of the Force.
12. After appearing in this film, Wedge becomes the only X-wing pilot character (apart from Luke) who survives all three major battles in the films.
13. The film was originally going to be called Revenge of the Jedi until Lucas decided that Jedi do not seek revenge. This was quite late in the production so there was a lot of promotional gear with the title already printed on it. 

This was just a taste of the vast amount of ROTJ trivia out there - if want more try this book, The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi by J. W. Rinzler.

Bonus fact - Alan Rickman auctioned for the role of Jer Jerrod. 

Bonus picture of the Death Star II being built:

Do you want more Star Wars trivia? Check out these 101 intriguing facts about Star Wars. 

Daaaa Na!

• Started out as a jazz pianist for hire. His early work with the famous Peter Mancini opened up many opportunities for him. 
• He’s had to 'thank the Academy' 5 times thanks to his scores for films, Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., and Schindler’s List. That's fine haul of Oscars (Star Wars has a few awards too!).
• In 1974,  the not yet famous director Steven Spielberg approached Williams to compose the music for his feature directorial debut, The Sugarland Express. They teamed up again a year later for Spielberg's second film, Jaws. This success lead to Spielberg recommending Williams' services as a composer to George Lucas, who needed a composer to score Star Wars. The rest is history.
• The original Star Wars sound track remains the highest grossing non-popular music recording of all-time
• In 1999, George Lucas launched the first of a series of prequels to the original Star Wars trilogy. Williams returned for all 3 films meaning the combined scores of all six Star Wars films add up to more than 14 hours of orchestral music. His Duel of the Fates and Across the Stars are considered by man fans as being just as good as his themes from the original films.
• Williams has been nominated for over 40 Grammy Awards, winning over 20 times.
• Has had four of his themes chart on the American Billboard Charts:
• 1975 – "Theme From Jaws," Highest position No. 32
• 1977 – "Star Wars Theme – Main Title," No. 10
• 1978 – "Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind," No. 13
• 1979 – "Theme From Superman," No. 81
• This next one is a little far out - John's son Joseph is the lead singer for the band Toto! Not the original singer mind you, but the singer right now!
• Williams has also composed music for television - some well known works included Lost in Space, Heidi, and Gilligan's Island. 
• Such was the success of their working relationship, Williams has, to date, scored every sound track for Steven Spielberg's films with the exception of The Color Purple. 
• Rogue One is the first Star Wars film for which he will not record the score.

What are the best Star Wars toys for Christmas Presents? What's this Rogue One business?

Rogue One will be the highest demanded toys!

Arise, Lord Vader

It's one of the most blatant cash ins in movie history bringing back Darth Vader but who are we to argue when there is so much cool character merchandise to share with our loved ones!

Have a Jyn and tonic

While Darth Vader looms large over the movie, the hero of the piece is Jyn Erso.

She's the lastest female lead in a Star Wars film after the great step forward that Rey took and the boy and girls are no doubt keen to snap up her figurine:

If Jedi clashing with Sith and Han Solo were not enough to keep Star Wars fans entertained, the space ships certainly add to the adventure.

While the Millennium Falcon doesn't feature in Rogue One, there were plenty of new space ships added and the models of them will make excellent Christmas and birthday gifts (someone please tell my wife!?).

Our favourite thus so far is the U-Wing. It also comes as a Lego version!

The Force Awakens

Not to be forgotten, there is still plenty of awesome The Force Awakens gear to be had. The BB-8 remote control droid is still a very popular toy.

A big seller as is the face of the whole merchandise packaging for TFA, Kylo Ren.

Star Wars Lego

Lego is a classic children's gift and is an ideal Christmas gift idea. Lego is one of the worlds most enduring play toys and translates very well into the Star Wars line.

While the giant Death Star might be out of most buyer price ranges, there are many affordable Lego sets that make great stocking stuffers.

Star Wars Lego Video Games

If the child or young person you are buying for has an Xbox or Play Station, you could always consider gifting them one of the Lego video games.

Lego has done a fine job turning all the Star Wars movies into video games.

They are deceptively fun games that take classic moments from the films and turn them into small problem solving set pieces. Many an hour can be spent playing through them, especially as some of them have over 50 playable characters!

We had particular fun ourselves with the Original Trilogy game that came out about 10 years ago! The current Lego version of The Force Awakens has been a very popular version of the format, especially as it features the voice acting talent of Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford.

The older kids (and Dads...) might like to have a crack at Star Wars: Battlefield.

Facts about Mos Eisely

• The first view of Mos Eisley in Star Wars where Obi Wan delivers his famous quote about it being a place of villany and scum, is was shot from a place called Death Valley in California from what is known as Dante's View. with a matte painting added in the distance to create the visual.
• The real-world locations for places around Mos Eisley were filmed in Tunisia
• Check out the drink dispensers from the Cantina - one of them was recycled into assassin droid IG-88.
• The name of the famous cantina is Chalmun's Cantina. A well known haunt of freighter pilots and a host of other dangerous characters it is where Han shot Greedo first and where Obi Wan cut off Ponda Baba's arm. 
• The Cantina had a 'no droids' policy. 
• The name of hangar where the Millennium Falcon takes off from in A New Hope is docking Bay 94.
• If you want to know more about IG-88, check out the short story in which he attempts to take over the world.
• The band that plays the famous "Cantina' music is called Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. The bald players are known as Biths. You can hire them for weddings but I wouldn't recommend it.

Facts and trivia about Rogue One

1. The film's working title was 'Red Cup'. Star Wars films have an odd naming history.
2. Its place in the Star Wars time line is just before A New Hope. It is also 5 years after the Star Wars Rebels television show.
3. Visual effects legend John Knoll came up with the story. He pitched it to Kathleen Kennedy and the rest is history.
4. Doug Chiang is the production designer. His claim to fame is design work on the prequel trilogies.
5. Garry Whitta wrote the first draft of the screenplay and came up with the film's title. Gary is known for his work on The Book of Eli and After Earth.
6. Screenwriter and director Christopher McQuarrie did a two week pass on the script post Whitta's effort. McQuarrie is best known for winning an Oscar for scripting The Usual Suspects and has had a strong career since so his involvement is notable. 
7. This is the first Star Wars movie where the title of the movie is said. Bodhi Rook says it, confirming the title of the movie is a call sign.
8. Alan Tudyk plays Enforcer Robot, K-250. He filmed a small cameo as a pilot called Wray Nerely but it was cut out.
9. It is the first big screen Star Wars movie that John Williams has not recorded the score for. Michael Giacchino composed the music for Rogue One.
10. The "I don't like you either" guy, Dr. Evazan as a blink and you'll miss him cameo. You'll remember his as they guy giving Luke Skywalker a hard time in the Cantina Bar in ANH, a hard time until Obi-Wan stepped in and sorted things out.
11. Genevieve O'Reilly reprised her role as Mon Mothma, whom she previously played in Revenge of the Sith.
12. Jimmy Smits also returns as Leia's father, Bail Organna. He played supporting roles in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith
13. Character 'Saw Gerrera' original featured in Star Wars: Clone Wars television show. Gerrera is played by Oscar winner, Forrest Whitaker.
14. The planet Jedha features a place known as the 'Temple of the Whills'. This is a great reference to some obscure Star Wars trivia - The Journal of the Whills was a formal record of history, maintained by a beings known as The Whills. During the original Star Wars writing period, George Lucas had the idea that R2D2 relayed the stories he knew to the Whills so that the Skywalker saga could be recorded for all time.
15. It was Donnie Yen's idea for his character Chirrut Imwe to be blind. Director Gareth Edwards thought it was cool and ran with it. Yen initially turned down the role when it was first offered to him however when he told his kids about the chance, they were so excited, he changed his mind.
16. In Saw Gerrera's cave there are paintings of monsters from director Gareth Edward's prior movies, Monsters and Godzilla. 
17. Chris Weitz, one of the scriptwriters, said that one of the titles of the movie that was 'kicked around' for Rogue One was 'Dark Times'.

Cameo appearances in Rogue One 

List of Rogue One cameo appearances

• Warwick Davis has yet another turn at a cameo in a Star Wars movie. His role means he has played a different character in all the films 10 times by my reckoning.
• Alan Tudyk obviously plays Enforcer Robot, K-250. He filmed a small cameo as a pilot called Wray Nerely but it was cut out. So no 'leaf on the wind' moment for him!
• Ben Nathaniels, well known for The Exorcist and House of Cards has a small but pivotal role as General Merrick, the salty old soldier who leads an X-Wing Squadron. 
• Taking a leaf from Alfred Hitchcock's playbook, Director Gareth Edwards makes a secret costumed cameo.
• Where think this might be stretching things a little but Jimmy Smits returns as Bail Organa. Smits played the role in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Bringing the character back is a wink and a nod of sorts so arguably is a cameo due to the small amount of screen time.
• Ingvild Deila briefly plays Princess Leia at the end of the movie.

The Star Wars Ring Theory Explained

It's amazing that it took till 2014 for a copywriter called Mike Klimo to put it all together. 

The crux of the essay is that the 6 films have a deliberate internal 'ring' system where the stories flow in rhythmic pattern. 

While this post is reducing the essay to a very basic form, the premise is that the films relate to each other like this >>>

So the cadence of the story of Star Wars follows a pattern of ABC CBA where each letter relates to the corresponding film in terms of themes and patterns that occur in them. 

The essay is detailed in its thinking. Perhaps a little too smart for its own good in places and may over reaches in others, however it does an extremely fine job of demonstrating the similarities in each of the films, the call backs to each other that they make and the ‘meaningful coincidences’ that permeate the films.

We do really suggest you take 20 - 30 minutes to have a read.

If you don’t here’s some interesting takeaways from it that explores the relationships between the films.

The essay covers things in way more depth with some great use of comparative images from each movie. 

Phantom Menace’s Relationship to Jedi

• Each films beginning scenes are very similar. Menace features Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan delivering the Chancellor’s demands in hopes of settling a conflict between the Trade Federation and the Naboo. Jedi features 'brobots' C3PO and R2D2 delivering Luke Skywalker’s message in hopes of settling the conflict between Jabba the Hutt and Han Solo. Both scene's feature the infamous Star Wars quote “I have a bad feeling about this.”
• The trap that Emperor sets for Luke and his friends in Jedi is the result of him confirming to himself that his ‘flaw of compassion’ strategy will work as it did when he enticed Amidala to come to him in The Phantom Menace. He learned that compassion and fear can be used for his advantage, and he did the same over Luke in Jedi.
• Jedi and Menace’s finale both feature a saber fight, a space battle and a land battle. 
• C3PO's eyes are fixed by Anakin, Salacious Crumb eats one.
• The pod race in Menace and the speeder bike chase in Jedi occur at the half way point of both movies.
• In terms of the broader story of Anakin’s destiny started in Menace it is only fulfilled when Luke fulfills his (kind of a ring within a ring moment).

The inverted relationship of Attack of the Clones and The Empire Strikes Back

• Clones begins with three small ships accompanying a larger ship and Empire features an ending where the Falcon escapes being chased by three tie fighters. 
• Clones starts high in the clouds, ends in caves. Empire starts low (swamps of Degobah?) and ends high in the Cloud City.
• Anakin uses Padme as bait to lure out an assassin. Vader users Han, Leia and Chewie as bait to lure out Luke, each trap leading to the intended trap victim blowing out throw a window. 
• Obvious reference points are the Fetts, an asteroid belt scene, C3PO getting dismantled (Die Jedi Dogs!)
• The bounty hunter losing her arm in the beginning of Clones mirrors the Wampa losing his arm at the beginning of Empire both moments serve to foreshadow a Skywalker each losing a limb in either movie.
• Anakin finding his mother and killing everybody in the camp is the same emotional journey that Luke goes through when he enters the cave on Dagobah. Both scenes reflect the both the father and son’s descent into their own darkness of personality.
• If one considers the first act of Jedi as the last act of Empire (which kinda makes sense) other similarities include the monsters in the arena and Jabba’s pit, a Skywalker using a green light saber for the first time, a Fett dying moments after a jet pack malfunction, Padme and Leia using a chain to kill a beast and a common sexual element in terms of those female characters clothes (the bikini however being more overt than Padme’s naked midriff but sometimes less is more….)
• The two films are opposites in that Empire featured it’s great battle at the start, Clones the end as the Separatists tangled with the Republic. In a similar manner, Empire’s colour palette changes from blue (Hoth) to red (Cloud City skies) and Clones begins with Blue (Coursucant and Kamino) and ends with Red (Geneonis). 

The pairing of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope

• The beginning is the end – the Invisible Hand ship serves as Palpatine’s throne room when he orders Anakin to execute Count Dooku and then escapes. Which mirrors the last half of a New Hope when Luke rescues Leia from Vader. 
• In Sith, a clone pilot gives the order, “Set S-foils in attack position.” In A New Hope, after the X-Wing pilots report in, Red Leader orders his men to “Lock S-foils in attack position.” Many other comments are variants of each other. 
• R2D2 uses his arm tool while in the trench run in ANH and the space battle in Sith. 
• At some shenanigans on the Invisible Hand that mirrored the events on the Death Star Grevious mocks the Jedi with “That wasn’t much of a rescue” which practically is dripping the same sarcasm that Leia delivered with “This is some rescue!”
• Other mirroring moments include Luke realising why the Jawa were slaughtered to rush and find his family dead, and Obi Wan and Yoda encounter dead children as they enter the Jedi Temple, C3PO drives Padme and Luke various places.
• General Grevious being mostly a robot with breathing difficulty reflects the introduction of Vader and his famous breathing technique. 
• Both the last act of Sith and the first act of A New Hope famously feature the sword fights between a Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Vader’s late appearance at the end of Sith ties nicely to Vader’s early entrance as he boards the Tantive IV at the beginning of ANH. 
• C3PO says the last and first line of each movie. 
• Yoda feeling the death of hundreds of Jedi after Order 66 is given, mirrors Obi Wan feeling the death of the people of Alderaan.

So as we said, these are just some of the elements that we found interesting in the essay.

You might like to to read this interview with Mike Klimo - it offers some sweet insight into how he went about writing the essay. 

If this wonderful theory is true, the way George would have done is that he manged to get a strong story going with the original trilogy tales and when he was doing the prequels he would have been able to write the scripts to suit the ABCCBA relationship.

What do you think of this ring theory?

It seems pretty strong.

Rogue One also continues this concept a bit. Where A New Hope started with Darth Vader dressed in black being surrounded by his white Storm Troopers, Rogue One reverses this with Krennic dressed in white being surrounded by his black suited Deathtroopers.