{"id":44922,"date":"2015-12-18T08:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=44922"},"modified":"2015-12-18T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:50:48","slug":"mega-list-fascinating-star-wars-facts-probably-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/mega-list-fascinating-star-wars-facts-probably-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mega List of Fascinating Star Wars Facts You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><div class=\"highlighter\">If you&#8217;ve noticed the fewer number of articles being published the last couple weeks on TIFO, this post is the cause. \ud83d\ude42 It now holds the record for the longest time spent researching and writing any single article on TIFO by a <em>very<\/em> good margin. It turns out there are an awful lot of Star Wars &#8220;facts&#8221; commonly repeated all over the place that aren&#8217;t when you really dig deep. We also really wanted to come up with a bunch of Star Wars facts (and extra details in those facts) that even the biggest Star Wars aficionados would find interesting to read and would learn something new on a good percentage of them. Here&#8217;s hoping it was all worth the effort. \ud83d\ude42 Without further ado, here is our mega list of Star Wars related facts you (hopefully) don&#8217;t already know (with a couple slight mispronunciations we didn&#8217;t catch until it was too late&#8230;\u00a0 This one kicked our butts.\u00a0 Not going to lie. ;-)):<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDOmb40aEZo?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44923\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-926.jpg\" alt=\"QF-926\" width=\"620\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-926.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-926-340x435.jpg 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href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-963.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-963.jpg\" alt=\"QF-963\" width=\"620\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-963.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/QF-963-340x410.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text Version:<\/p>\n<p><strong>926) <\/strong>The person who did the voice and puppeteer work for Yoda, and who is also responsible for quite a bit of Yoda\u2019s character traits including the distinct \u201cYodic\u201d style of speech (Object, Subject, Verb), Frank Oz, also did the voices for Miss Piggy, the Cookie Monster, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Grover, Sam the Eagle, and Bert (from Bert and Ernie), among many others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>927)<\/strong> Speaking of Yoda, famed makeup artist Stuart Freeborn, \u201cthe grandfather of modern make-up design\u201d, modeled Yoda\u2019s face partially after his own, as well as Albert Einstein\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>928)<\/strong> Contrary to C3P0\u2019s estimates in Empire Strikes Back, it should actually be quite safe to fly through an asteroid field. The reality is that the objects in asteroid fields are generally hundreds of thousands of miles apart and most of them are no bigger than a tennis ball. For instance, if you added up the mass of all the asteroids in our solar system\u2019s asteroid belt, it\u2019s a mere 4% of the mass of our moon with about 1\/2 of the total mass from just four asteroids- Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. So that\u2019s our asteroid belt. Could there be one out there that <em>would<\/em> be dangerous to fly through? Unlikely, unless it was formed extremely recently- the reason being that even if the asteroid belt is initially packed with debris that are colliding everywhere like what is depicted in Empire Strikes Back, this would relatively quickly (on a galactic time scale) sort itself out with most of the mass being ejected from the belt. Eventually, the system would stabilize itself to something like our asteroid belt.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re thinking just now that maybe the Hoth Asteroid Belt was a newly formed phenomenon, it was actually described in the Expanded Universe as having been formed several million years before the events of Empire Strikes Back, via a collision of two rocky planets. For further reference, our asteroid belt is thought to have originally contained approximately one thousand times its current mass and within about a million years stabilized down to in the ballpark of the mass we have today. It\u2019s also worth noting that objects that are greater than about six miles wide in our asteroid belt are estimated to have about one random collision every 10 million years or so on average.<\/p>\n<p><strong>929)<\/strong> In <em>The Phantom Menace<\/em>, Qui-Gon Jinn&#8217;s communicator is just a Sensor Excel Razor for Women that was slightly modified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>930) <\/strong>According to Peter Mayhew, the actor who plays Chewbacca, during the filming of the Endor scenes, he wasn\u2019t allowed to walk around the forest in costume without other people with him because the crew were concerned that he\u2019d be shot by a hunter, perhaps mistaking him for Bigfoot. Ironically, in one very questionable Expanded Universe comic called, <em>Into the Great Unknown<\/em>, Chewbacca and Han Solo crash into a forest on Earth. While Solo is ultimately killed by natives, Chewbacca survives and spends 126 years roaming the forest where he becomes mistaken for Bigfoot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>931)<\/strong> Warwick Davis, today best known for his roles in <em>Harry Potter<\/em> (most notably portraying Professor Flitwick) and the mockumentary <em>Life\u2019s Too Short<\/em>, among many other works, got his start in show business at the age of 11 playing the Ewok Wicket in <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>. Davis was originally just cast as an Ewok extra, but the actor who was going to play Wicket, Kenny Baker (who played R2-D2), got sick on the day of the shoot and Warwick was selected to take over. This was Davis\u2019 big break as later Ron Howard and George Lucas would create the film <em>Willow<\/em> with Warwick Davis in mind to play the starring role, even though Davis was just 17 when they offered him the part and was playing a character who was depicted to be in his late 20s or early 30s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>932)<\/strong> The Ewoks were named after the Native American tribe Miwok who lived in the Redwood forest that is the setting for the Endor scenes on <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>. It has also been suggested that Princess Leia\u2019s bun hair style was also of Native American origin, based on the Hopi Indian \u201cSquash Blossom\u201d hair style that very strongly resembles Leia\u2019s bun hair style and near perfectly matches one of Padme\u2019s. However, at least in the former case, George Lucas denies this, stating the similarity is coincidental.<\/p>\n<p><strong>933) <\/strong>Incidentally, the word \u201cewok\u201d was never spoken in <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>. The name of the Ewoks, among many other names of characters that are never explicitly mentioned in the Star Wars films, became widely known thanks primarily to the various action figures and other toys later sold which explicitly referenced their names on the packaging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>934)<\/strong> The actor who played Count Dooku in Episode II and III, Christopher Lee, in partnership with guitarist Richie Faulkner of Judas Priest fame, created a heavy metal album released on Lee\u2019s 91<sup>st<\/sup> birthday. The album is based on the life of Charlemagne. If you don\u2019t find this odd enough, you should know that this wasn\u2019t Lee\u2019s first metal album. It also wasn\u2019t his first music album on the topic of Charlemagne. Lee\u2019s first metal album, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, was released in 2010. It was followed by the aforementioned album made with Richie Falkner, Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, which came out in May of 2013. In 2012, he also released an album of covers of heavy metal Christmas songs called A Heavy Metal Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>935)<\/strong> Elizabeth Taylor was at one time Carrie Fisher\u2019s step-mother. Carrie Fisher is the daughter of famed entertainers Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. When Eddie Fisher divorced Reynolds in 1959, he quickly married one of Reynolds\u2019 best friends, Elizabeth Taylor, who he had previously been having an affair with. The two stayed married for five years and divorced in 1964 when Carrie Fisher was 9 years of age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>936)<\/strong> Mark Hamill currently holds the record for playing the Batman character of \u201cJoker\u201d longer than any other actor and in more spinoffs. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen him play the Joker\u201d, you say? It\u2019s because Hamill is one of the more prolific voice over actors in Hollywood, lending his vocal talents to over 100 different characters to date. Among these roles, he has been doing the voice of the Joker on a variety of animated TV shows, movies, and video games for over two decades. He got his start doing the Joker in the Emmy award winning 1992 <em>Batman: The Animated Series<\/em>. He\u2019d previously done the voice for the character of Ferris Boyle in the Batman episode \u201cHeart of Ice\u201d, so when Tim Curry decided to opt out of doing the voice of Joker, they gave the role to Hamill. He\u2019s been doing it ever since. As to the inspiration for his now famous version of the Joker, Hamill stated that he was going for a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Jerry Lewis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>937)<\/strong> Speaking of Mark Hamill, his desire to work in movies was kindled after seeing the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts. Referring to people telling him they decided on a career in show business after watching Star Wars, Hamill stated, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many people have said, \u2018I got into the business because of that movie.\u2019 \u2026 I totally understand that because I remember walking out of <em>Jason and the Argonauts<\/em> and saying, \u2018I don\u2019t know how they got those skeletons to fight, but someday I want that to be my job. To make skeletons fight.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>938)<\/strong> One individual who had his life changed by Star Wars was James Cameron. You see, a few years after dropping out of community college in 1974, Cameron found himself working as a truck driver. That all changed when he first watched Star Wars in 1977.\u00a0 After seeing it, he decided to quit his day job and see if he could make it in the film industry.\u00a0 A few Oscars and several blockbusters later, we can safely assume he doesn\u2019t regret his decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>939)<\/strong> As many people know, while filming Star Wars: A New Hope, Mark Hamill was in a car accident on January 11, 1977. From here, the myths abound, everything from him nearly losing his life to having massive facial reconstruction surgery. According to Hamill, though, it wasn\u2019t that big of a deal, \u201cI broke my nose, that\u2019s it! But I\u2019ve read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help. I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That\u2019s the best one of all.\u201d It should also be noted that filming for <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> didn\u2019t start until March of 1979, over two years after Hamill\u2019s accident, so he was all healed up by then. If you guessed from this that the commonly stated idea that the Wampa attacking Luke in <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> was written to explain why Hamill\u2019s face was messed up is a myth, you\u2019d be correct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>940)<\/strong> According to sound editor Walter Murch, the story behind R2-D2\u2019s name is that during editing of Lucas\u2019s previous film American Graffiti, Murch asked for \u201cReel 2, Dialogue Track 2\u201d and abbreviated it to R2D2. Lucas, who was half asleep while working on the script for his next feature <em>The Star Wars<\/em>, came out of his doze and thought it would make a great name for a robot. Murch stated that directly after this, Lucas went back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>941)<\/strong> Speaking of droids, the word \u201cdroid\u201d is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. Shortly before Verizon launched their \u201cDROID\u201d line of mobile devices, Lucasfilm Ltd. swept in and filed a trademark on October 9, 2009 for the term. As a result of this, Verizon had to pay Lucasfilm Ltd. an undisclosed sum for the rights to use this word as a brand name. And if you\u2019re wondering, the word \u201cdroid\u201d is just an aphesis form of \u201candroid\u201d, a word that\u2019s been around since at least the 1700s. The first documented mention of \u201candroid\u201d is in the Ephraim Chambers\u2019 Cyclopedia, \u201cAlbertus Magnus is recorded as having made a famous androides\u201d. Android derives from the Greek \u1f70\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf (andro-), meaning \u201cman\u201d, and the suffix -\u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u1fc4\u03c2 (-eides), meaning \u201cform, likeness, appearance, or resemblance\u201d; hence the definition of android being \u201cautomaton resembling a human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>942) <\/strong>Many of the droids, including R2-D2 and C-3PO, on Star Wars were designed by legendary special effects man John Stears, a.k.a. \u201cThe Dean of Special Effects\u201d. Stears also designed Luke\u2019s landspeeder, the lightsaber, the Death Star, and a variety of other gadgets in the films. He isn\u2019t just known for his work in Star Wars, though, but also in the James Bond movies, known as \u201cThe Real Q\u201d in that context, and for designing the flying car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, among many other films he worked on. Incidentally, both Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond were created by the same guy, Ian Fleming. Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his only son, Caspar, while suffering from serious heart issues near the end of his life. Fleming ultimately died on August 12, 1964, which was also Caspar\u2019s 12th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>943)<\/strong> The famous \u201cStar Wars scream\u201d, more properly known as the \u201cWilhelm Scream\u201d, heard in hundreds of movies, was created via the vocal talents of Sheb Wooley, perhaps better known for his hit 1958 song \u201cPurple People Eater\u201d. The genesis of the scream was that Wooley had an uncredited part in the first film the scream was heard in, a 1951 film called <em>Distant Drums<\/em>. At one point during the film, Captain Quincy is leading his soldiers through a swamp when one of them gets attacked and dragged under by an alligator, screaming in the process. During post-production recordings, Wooley recorded various vocal sound effects for the film, including a batch of screams.<\/p>\n<p>So why was it dubbed the \u201cWilhelm Scream\u201d if the man who did the scream was named Sheb Wooley? After being plucked from the Warner Brothers stock sound library, the scream was used in the 1953 film <em>The Charge at Feather River<\/em>, starring Guy Madison as Private Wilhelm. The sound effect is used when Private Wilhelm is shot in the thigh with an arrow. The scream was nicknamed \u201cWilhelm\u201d from then on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>944)<\/strong> The Hollywood tradition \/ inside joke of purposefully using the Wilhelm scream in a variety of films began with sound effects designer Ben Burtt, who worked on numerous films, including Star Wars. He noticed the scream being used in certain Warner Brother\u2019s films, such as <em>Them<\/em> in 1954, <em>Helen of Troy<\/em> in 1956, and <em>The Green Berets<\/em> in 1968. Burtt then began slipping the Wilhelm Scream into every movie he worked on, beginning with George Lucas\u2019s <em>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>945) <\/strong>Anakin Skywalker displays six of the nine criteria for borderline personality disorder, as defined by the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4<sup>th<\/sup> Edition<\/em>. These include: \u201cfrantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment,\u201d \u201calternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation\u201d in relationships, \u201cunstable self-image,\u201d impulsivity . . . that [is] self-damaging,\u201d \u201cinappropriate, intense anger,\u201d and \u201cstress-related paranoid ideation.\u201d On this last, remember: \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear any more about Obi-Wan. The Jedi turned against me. Don\u2019t you turn against me! . . . . You\u2019re with him! You brought him here to kill me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>946)<\/strong> James Earl Jones was not Lucas\u2019 first choice for the voice of Darth Vader. Originally he was hoping to land Orson Welles for the part, but ultimately decided Welles\u2019 voice was too recognizable (and Welles likely would have been extremely expensive anyway), so finally settled on James Earl Jones. Jones later stated in an interview with the American Film Institute that he was paid just $7,000 (about $27,000 today) for his work in <em>A New Hope<\/em>. At the time, he said he \u201cthought it was good money.\u201d Of course, today Jones is thought to have a net worth of about $45 million, so he\u2019s doing alright. Interestingly, early in his life Jones had a severe stutter, and generally avoided talking when he could because of it. He stated of this, \u201cI\u2019m a walking irony but there are a lot of us around. There are famous dancers who started off life crippled and Althea Gibson was a black tennis player who had polio as a child. There are lots of examples of people who start off in life with a very weak muscle but who by strengthening it made it a strength of theirs. But it is still a very impaired voice, a stutterer is impaired, but I learned how to work around that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>947)<\/strong> If you\u2019re wondering why early lightsaber battles were quite slow and the characters always kept two hands on the weapon, this is because Lucas was adamant that the lightsabers were supposed to be extremely heavy. Over time, he gradually lessened his stance on this to allow for more elaborate and fast paced duels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>948)<\/strong> According to George Lucas, the original lightsaber was a very slightly modified flash attachment to a 4&#215;5 camera that they took the flash part off of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>949)<\/strong> As for the iconic sound of the lightsaber, Ben Burtt stated, \u201cthe very first sound I created for the film was the lightsaber&#8230;. In the booth where we projected the films. Those projectors would make a hum. They weren&#8217;t running, they were idling, the motors would just sit there with this kind of magical, mysterious humming sound that I thought was musical in a way and I thought that&#8217;s probably what a lightsaber would sound like&#8230; And I was searching for some other element, and I had a tape recorder with a broken mic cable that the shielding had come off of and when I walked passed a television set in my apartment it picked up the hum from the picture tube directly into the broken wire, and that made a buzz, and I thought, that&#8217;s a great buzz, that sounds dangerous&#8230; normally a sound person doesn&#8217;t want a buzz or a hum, but in this case a buzz and a hum was the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>950)<\/strong> The actor who played Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, Peter Cushing, stated that he found his costume boots so uncomfortable that he generally didn\u2019t wear them while being filmed. He didn\u2019t go shoeless, however, instead getting Lucas\u2019 permission to wear slippers whenever his feet weren\u2019t going to be shown in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>951)<\/strong> The actor who played Wedge Antilles, Denis Lawson, has a sister named Carol Diane McGregor. Why is this significant in the Star Wars universe? Carol McGregor has a son named Ewan, who, of course, played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>952)<\/strong> The bounty hunter known as Bossk in <em>Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back<\/em> is wearing a spacesuit borrowed from the 1966 <em>Doctor Who<\/em> episode <em>The Tenth Planet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>953)<\/strong> Return of the Jedi was at one point called <em>Revenge of the Jedi<\/em>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:RevengeOTJedi.jpg\">having posters<\/a> and a December of 1982 teaser trailer, among other promotional materials, made leading up to the release of the film. Because of this, the 1982 <em>Star Trek II: The Vengeance of Khan<\/em> was renamed <em>The Wrath of Khan<\/em>. Lucas later decided that seeking revenge was not in character for a Jedi so changed the title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>954)<\/strong> Speaking of the name of episode six, it was originally code-named <em>Blue Harvest<\/em> to keep people from knowing that what they were really shooting was the third Star Wars installment. Presenting the film as a no-name horror flick not only helped keep gawkers away, but also helped them get better deals when negotiating fees for various locations used for the film. The name \u201cBlue Harvest\u201d was in homage to the 1929 film \u201cRed Harvest\u201d that in turn inspired Akira Kurosawa\u2019s film <em>Yojimbo<\/em>, which was later adapted to the 1964 <em>A Fistfull of Dollars<\/em>. Lucas was a huge fan of Kurosawa\u2019s work, with elements from it being heavily borrowed in Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>955)<\/strong> While <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> will see a release in just over 4,100 theaters, narrowly beating out <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> for the widest December release, <em>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/em> was originally slated to show in only 40 theaters as few theaters were interested in carrying it. To help boost the numbers, 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox stipulated that if a theater wanted to show their highly anticipated adaptation of the bestselling novel <em>The Other Side of Midnight<\/em>, they must also show Star Wars, ensuring that Star Wars would get a reasonably good release. Oh, and if you\u2019re wondering, the widest release for a film in any month of the year belongs to Twilights\u2019 <em>Eclipse<\/em>, which opened in June of 2010 in just shy of 4500 theaters\u2026 Yep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>956)<\/strong> The giant monster slug, called an exogorth, that tries to eat the Millennium Falcon in <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> was actually just a small hand puppet. Many of the asteroids in that part of the film were just spray-painted potatoes, rocks, and pieces of polystyrene that had been coated in plaster, all filmed in front of a bluescreen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>957)<\/strong> In the original script, when Han Solo is about to be frozen in carbonite, he was supposed to say \u201cI love you too\u201d in response to Leia saying she loved him. However, <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> director Irvin Kershner and Harrison Ford both thought this was out of character for Solo, with \u201cI know\u201d ultimately being improvised on set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>958)<\/strong> During filming of the most iconic scene of <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, where Vader tells Luke he is Luke\u2019s father, the script actually said \u201cObi-Wan killed your father\u2026\u201d Among the actors, only Mark Hamill was told what the real line would say once James Earl Jones would record it, so that Hamill could react appropriately to the news. Of course, anyone who speaks Dutch could have been tipped off by the spelling of Vader\u2019s name, as \u201cVader\u201d is Dutch for \u201cfather\u201d. Although, the Dutch would pronounce this spelling \u201cfawdder\u201d. It also should be noted that although Lucas has at various times claimed he always intended Vader\u2019s name to be a hint to this plot element, some find this unlikely given various drastic script changes that occurred after the character was already given that name. It may well be that Lucas\u2019 choice of name that was supposed to be akin to \u201cDark Father\u201d just happened to be a coincidence to the ultimate plot element, or perhaps even helped inspire it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>959)<\/strong> The opening of <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> resulted in a huge clash between George Lucas and the respective Writers and Directors Guilds of America, because Lucas refused to put normal opening credits in the film, preferring to just show those afterward like he had in Episode IV. The Guilds were fine with that in <em>A New Hope<\/em> because Lucas had written and directed it and his name is included in Lucasfilms Ltd. that appears before the iconic opening crawling yellow text that sets up the story. However, while Lucasfilm Ltd. also appears at the beginning of <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, the same could not be said for the names of screenplay writers, Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, nor was any opening credit given to director Irvin Kershner. As a result, the respective Guilds tried to get the movie pulled from theaters and also went after director Irvin Kershner over the matter. While they were unsuccessful in getting the film removed from theaters, Lucas did have to pay a $250,000 fine (about $700,000 today) over the missing opening credits. In protest, Lucas then promptly withdrew his membership to the DGA, WGA, and the Motion Picture Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>960)<\/strong> Actor Harry Shearer, who is perhaps best known today for voicing Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, and Mr. Burns, among other characters on <em>The Simpsons<\/em>, also did voice work on <em>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/em>, though Shearer can\u2019t remember exactly what his lines were. As he noted on Twitter, \u201cNot clear on what-all I did. Just some words on paper. They called me in, I did it, I left.\u201d It is thought that Shearer\u2019s voice was dubbed in for Captain Khurgee who is tasked by Vader to have the Millennium Falcon searched shortly after its arrival on the Death Star. The actor who played Khurgee on screen is Christopher Muncke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>961)<\/strong> If you thought General Crix Madine\u2019s beard looked fake in <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>, that\u2019s because it was. When Dermot Crowley was originally cast as the General, he had a beard, but shaved it off shortly before showing up on the set of <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>. This was a major problem because Kenner Products toy company had already begun pre-production of General Madine\u2019s action figure, which had a beard modeled after Crowley\u2019s former facial hair. To get around this and avoid having to wait for Crowley to grow a new one, he was given a fake beard to wear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>962)<\/strong> Famed director of such films as F<em>ight Club, Se7en, The Social Network, and Gone Girl<\/em>, David Fincher, got his start in Hollywood as an assistant cameraman on Star Wars. He was later seriously considered for the position of director of Episode VII, but he didn\u2019t get it, in his opinion due to his vision of where to take the franchise contrasting with the direction the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, and Disney had in mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>963)<\/strong> Keira Knightley is prominently featured in <em>The Phantom Menace<\/em>. \u201cWhere?\u201d You ask? She played Sab\u00e9 , Queen Amidala\u2019s decoy, when Natalie Portman was on screen playing her handmade, Padm\u00e9. Beyond the heavy makeup Knightley wore in the film to help mask the deception, Portman\u2019s voice was also dubbed in over Knightley\u2019s in the final version of the film.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed the fewer number of articles being published the last couple weeks on TIFO, this post is the cause. \ud83d\ude42 It now holds the record for the longest time spent researching and writing any single article on TIFO by a very good margin. 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