Star Wars (1977)

Trivia: Originally Obi-Wan Kenobi survived the duel with Darth Vader and fled aboard the Millennium Falcon. But the character had very little to do with the rest of the film, and George Lucas decided that he should be killed off. Alec Guinness threatened to quit the production over the change, but Lucas convinced him that the change was better for the overall story.

Trivia: "Star Wars" was the first film to list the entire film crew in the closing credits crawl. Prior to this, the custom was to list only department heads.

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Trivia: Actor Shane Rimmer has two parts in the film, at the start as one of the Rebel soldiers in the corridor and at the end as a Rebel technician, he's the one who asks Luke if he wants another R2 unit. No way is he the same character.

Trivia: Sir Alec Guinness was apparently not a fan of the Star Wars dialogue. A letter was found in 2016 that he wrote to his friend saying "New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper, and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable."

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Trivia: At one point during production, George Lucas lost his voice; because he was so non-communicative anyway, none of the cast or crew knew about it for a number of days.

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Trivia: Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi never meet once in the entire film.

Trivia: The chest where Obi-Wan keeps the lightsaber is the same chest where Lex Luthor hid the kryptonite in Superman (1978).

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Trivia: When Luke is the climbing the ladder to his X-Wing fighter before the Battle of Yavin, an InCom Engineer asks him if he needs another Artoo unit. This engineer is Shane Rimmer, best known for the voice of Scott Tracy in the Gerry Anderson series "Thunderbirds".

Trivia: Scenes with the Jawa sandcrawler were shot near the border of Tunisia and Libya. Worried Libyan officials looked over the vehicle to make sure it was not part of a Tunisian military operation.

Trivia: Although Peter Cushing is listed as Grand Moff Tarkin in the end credits, he is never referred to as either Moff or Grand Moff. Throughout the film, he is simply called Governor Tarkin or Tarkin.

Trivia: Before being cast as Darth Vader, David Prowse was offered the role of Chewbacca. Prowse turned down Chewbacca, as he did not like the idea of having to wear a furry monkey costume for his part, so he chose Darth Vader, as he believed that everyone remembers the villain.

Trivia: Luke Skywalker only uses his lightsaber for a little bit of training with the floating orb in this first film; he never actually fights with it until The Empire Strikes Back.

Trivia: George Lucas wrote separate scenes in which Luke makes another trench run, missing the exhaust port at his first attempt, then abandoning his targeting computer the second time round. The sequences were combined to speed up the story.