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I liked this trivia bit from The Empire Strikes Back:
Great secrecy surrounded the fact that Darth Vader was Luke's father. David Prowse, who spoke all of Vader's lines during filming, was told to say, "Obi-Wan killed your father", and, until the film premiered, only George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Mark Hamill and James Earl Jones knew what would really be said. Jones later reported that his reaction to the line was, "Oh, he's lying!"
And for all my gun nut friends out there here's an index of Star Wars weapons. I knew that Han Solo's blaster prop was based on the C96 "Broomhandle" Mauser. I didn't realize the stormtrooper's blaster prop was based on the Sterling submachine gun.
- Return of the Jedi had script help from David Webb Peoples, who wrote Unforgiven and who wrote the screenplay for Bladerunner and Twelve Monkeys.
"David Lynch, with a Best Director nomination for the 1980 film The Elephant Man was approached by Lucas to helm Return of the Jedi, but he declined and went on to direct Dune."
"Another wardrobe problem is shown when Oola's breast flops out of her costume, just before she is dropped into the rancor pit (at 0:13:45 on DVD) . This problem is present in all versions of the film."
I checked the DVD and it's true. Here's a wardrobe malfunction screencap.
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