The Star Wars saga always played with the enigmas and secrets in its plot (“I am your father”), but the truth is that the films and their filming have their own hidden history. To reveal it, we bring you 7 secrets that not even many fans of the saga know . As you will see, some are funny, but others are much more disturbing …
1. Return of the Jedi was going to be a lot darker
In the classic trilogy, Return of the Jedi is undoubtedly the weakest film. With a more childish argument, because you have to sell Ewok stuffed animals, the truth is the original plans were very different.
Leia was not Luke’s sister and became queen after the defeat of the empire, but at the cost of isolating herself from her friends in the Rebellion. Luke leaves to explore the galaxy and his way as Jedi and Han … Han dies .
Other than that, no Ewoks and no other Death Star. But while The Empire Strikes Back was being shot, those plans were scrapped for a version that would satisfy more audiences and sell more toys.
2. The sound of the TIE-Fighters was made with …
An elephant howl mixed with the sound of a car driving on wet asphalt.
A curious detail about Star Wars to comment on at dinners with friends and make the awkward silence fall, while they continue to think that to see if you can find a job at once.
3. The most epic phrase of the trilogy was improvised
We are not referring to the “I am your father” with which we opened this, but to Han Solo’s response when Leia tells him she loves him. “I know,” replies our favorite rogue, with that gesture that only Harrison Ford knows how to put.
The script said “I love you too” , but Ford has made a career in film based on the appearance that he does not give a damn about everything and that improvised pearl stayed in the film.
4. Hardly anyone knew that Darth Vader was Luke’s father
The great revelation was kept secret thanks to Lucas’s zeal and the fact that there was no Internet, nor obsessed like us, who did not stop examining every detail, instead of becoming adults.
The original script said that Vader revealed that he had killed Anakin , Luke’s father. Mark Hamill learned the truth just seconds before filming and the rest of the cast found out when they saw him at the movies.
Harrison Ford probably doesn’t know yet, because he hasn’t bothered to see anything. We have no evidence, but no doubts either.
5. Filming was a wild party
Especially the one from The Empire Strikes Back . The biography of Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), already accounts for the enormous amount of drugs that were consumed on the set , which caused addiction problems throughout her life.
But it is that, for example, in the scenes of Cloud City, Ford and she were hungover and without sleep, after a party in London with the Rolling Stones and the Monty Python , where they consumed everything.
Star Wars was a wild party and we can all see “that nail” of Fisher in Return of the Jedi that we have put a little higher. Ford’s face also suggests that the party never stopped.
6. The fear of mistaking Chewbacca for Bigfoot
There was always a rumor floating around Return of the Jedi , that Chewbacca had to walk accompanied by workers in reflective vests through the forests of Crescent City, California, where the scenes of the Endor moon were filmed.
Why? So they wouldn’t mistake him for Bigfoot and shoot him . Peter Mayhew himself confirmed on Reddit that the rumor was true .
7. Joda was to be played by a monkey
A cappuccino for more signs, with a cane and a mask. Apparently the monkey understood acting like taking off his mask all the time and doing whatever he wanted. So Yoda became a puppet.
As you can see, the history of Star Wars is fascinating, but its secrets are not far behind. And that we have not talked about the Ewok actors wearing their costumes for, ahem, what you imagine, or the fact that the miniaturists hid little Playboy posters in the models …
