1 Star Wars: A New Hope was released on May 25, 1977
2 Star wars is distributed by 20th century fox
3 Star wars is produced by Lucasfilm
4 Star Wars created by George Lucas
5 A New Hope spawned a multi-billion dollar business empire
6 162,827,328 tickets sold
7 A New Hope has grossed $797,900,000 worldwide
8 Mark Hamil plays the main character Luke Skywalker
9 Luke Skywalker was originally called Luke Starkiller
10 Harrison Ford plays the character Han Solo
11 Carrie Fisher plays the character Princess Leia
12 The main concept of the Star Wars is good against evil
13 A New Hope won 6 oscars
14 Empire Strikes back is the second part of the orignal star wars trilogy
15 Empire Strikes Back was released on May 21, 1980
16 Empire Strikes Back has grossed $534,200,000 worldwide
17 Empire Strikes Back was directed by Irvin Kershner
18 The scenes that were based on 'Hoth' the ice planet were filmed in Norway.
19 The production companies that Star Wars used was Lucasfilm and 20th century fox
20 The estimated budget for Empire Strikes Back is $18,000,000
21 A New Hope was directed by George Lucas
22 Return of the Jedi was released on May 25, 1983
23 Return of the Jedi has grossed $572,700,000 worldwide
24 Return of the Jedi was directed by Richard Marquand
25 16 years later the first in a prequel trilogy of films, The Phantom Menace was released
26 The Phantom Menace was released on May 19, 1999
27 The Phantom Menace has grossed $925,600,000 worldwide
28 Liam Neeson played the character Qui-Gon Jinn
29 Ewan McGregor played the character (young) Obi-Wan Kenobi
30 In the original trilogy Alec Guinness played Obi-Wan Kenobi
31 Natalie Portman played the character Queen Padme Amidala
32 George Lucas Directed The Phantom Menace
33 It was the first film that George Lucas had directed in 22 years
34 The phantom menace used lots of CGI (Computer generated imagery)
35 The the Star Wars films are often named by ‘episode’ the phantom menace is ‘Episode I’
36 Attack of the Clones was released on May 16, 2002
37 Attack of the Clones has grossed $648,200,000 worldwide
38 Revenge of the Sith was released on May 19, 2005
39 Revenge of the Sith has grossed $783,680,000 worldwide
40 Music for all of the Star Wars films was composed and conducted by John Williams
41 John Williams used the London symphony orchestra for the music
42 All Star Wars films start with the lines “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away”
43 A New Hope was produced by George Lucas and Gary Kurtz
44 The Empire Strikes Back was produced by George Lucas and Gary Kurtz
45 Return of the Jedi was produced by George Lucas and Howard Kazanjian
46 George Lucas stuck a deal to have 40% of the net box-office gross, all rights to future sequels and ownership of all the merchandising rights associated with Star Wars.
47 This gave George Lucas huge return in the Star Wars franchise because 20th century fox thought merchandising rights were worthless for science fiction films
48 George Lucas is worth $3.5 billion
49 Overall box office revenue generated by the six Star Wars films has totalled approximately $4.3 billion
50 Star wars is a worldwide pop culture phenomenon
51 The Star Wars film series has spawned other media including books, tv series, video games and comic books.
52 In the 2001 Census 390,000 people declared their religion as Jedi.
53 Attack of the Clones was the first motion picture to be shot completely on a high definition digital 24- frame system
54 The Character Darth Vader was played by three actors. David Prowse was the body, James Earl Jones the voice, and Sebastian Shaw was the face when Darth Vader was eventually unmasked
55 During the filming of Return of the Jedi he told the press that he was making a film called blue harvest to make the film more of a surprise
55 Return of the Jedi was originally going to be called Revenge of the Jedi
56 In 1996, 37% of the toys sold in the United States where Star Wars products
57 The main company that produces Star Wars toys is Kenner and Hasbro
58 Kenner produced the original toys created in the the 70’s and 80’s
59 StarWars is the most successful movie-related toy line up ever sold. Even back in 1978, for the first year that Kenner offered these toys, it sold more than 42 Million of them.
60 Between 1978 and 1986, some 250 Million figures will be sold over the World
61 R2-D2 was named after that a technician from "American Graffiti" asked to Lucas the Reel number 2, Dialogue track number 2.
62 For Star Wars 20th anniversary, A new hope film renovation costed as much as the original movie costing 10 millions US dollars.
63 The Alien from the movie E.T. makes an appearance in Episode I
64 The Jedi use Light sabers as their weapon of choice
65 The Sith are depicted as Evil in the films and want to destroy the Good Jedi
66 Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi but ‘turned to the darkside’ (Sith)
66 Anakin Skywalker turned into Darth Vader
67 Vader means Father in Dutch
68 Darth Vader is Luke Skywalkers Father
69 Luke and Leia and Brother and Sister
70 The fictional world or Star Wars contains many Alien races
71 Light Sabers come in different colours
72 Sith prefer the red light sabers
73 Darth Vader is on of the most iconic Villains in film history
74 The American Film Institute listed Darth Vader as the 3rd greatest movie villain in cinema history
75 Kenobi and Vader engage in a light saber duel at the end of Revenge
76 To him keep alive, he is encased in the black armored suit, mask, seen in the original films.
77 Obi wan taught Anakin Skywalker to be a Jedi
78 Han Solo’s space ship is called the Millennium Falcon
79 Chewbacca is played by Peter Mayhew
80 Chewbacca is often names Chewie for short
81 Chewbacca’s voice was created by the original film sound designer, Ben Burtt
82 This voice was created from a mix of recordings from Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
83 Empire Strikes Back is Set 3 years after the destruction of the death star
84 Luke is taught by Jedi master Yoda
85 Yoda’s voice is done by Frank Oz
86 The Rebel Alliance are a group of rebels who fight against the ‘Empire’
87 The Empire is run by Evil characters Darth Vader and the Emperor
88 The Death Star is a huge space station which can destroy planets
89 The first death star is destroyed by Luke Skywalker
90 In the Return of the Jedi another Death Star is being built but again is destroyed by the rebels
91 The main colours for light sabers are blue, green and red
92 Lego have produced toys from using the Star Wars franchise
93 Lego have also produced video games
94 A animated tv series was released in 2008 called Star Wars: The Clone Wars
95 The cartoon is set in between Episode II & III in the Star Wars timeline
96 R2-D2 the robot was played by Kenny Baker, British born dwarf actor
97 C-3PO the robot was played by Anthony Daniels
98 A rare 1978 toy of Darth Vader is worth $6000
99 Samuel L Jackson played the character Mace Windu who appeared in episode II & III
100 The film Space balls is a parody of the Star Wars original trilogy
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