101 MORE Facts About Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Here are 101 facts mostly about the making of the first Star Wars film, taken from several books about the production, including The Making of Star Wars, The Star Wars Archives, The Annotated Screenplays, and more!
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[a.j.e]

I'm 54 years old I went to see "A New Hope" in 1977 at the age of 9.5 at the cinema with my father one sunday afternoon almost 45 years ago. Talk about you learn something new everyday I think I knew of probably 3 of the 101 facts on your splendid video pa!.

[crazyjedi]

So amazing that even all these years later, there’s more to learn about the film.

[RogueBagel]

That bit about the holo-chess characters blows my mind. What attention to detail! I love knowing the people creating Star Wars love it as much as the fans do; it's not "just a job" to them.

[EricTheKartoonKing]

I’m legit shocked that I didn’t know about 80% of these facts. What a pleasant surprise!

[TheHonoredMadman]

I love that chewie was inspired by George's malamute riding in his car with him.

[GabrielR.Fides]

The whole story of A New Hope is beautiful

[sebwarriner]

The most interesting bit to me was that the Death Star's aiming at Yavin was not added until post-production. Imagine that not being in the movie, the final fight wouldn't be nearly as iconic.

[JettQuasar]

I'm amazed that there is still new information coming out about the original Star Wars movie after all these years.

[Kazavop]

that last fact about the release date is quite interesting. very smart thinking by George ( 19:11 )

[OneRedFeatherStudios.]

I quite enjoyed this one. And yes....learnt a lot from it too. Really well done mate.

[sergioreyes]

"...So he didn't have to follow any real-world physics or rules", yeah, tell that to the Youtube "plot hole" nitpickers community. I love that Lucas always thought of it as fantasy more than science fiction.

[minicle]

During the meeting on the Death Star there was originally a line of dialogue filmed which identified Vader as a Sith, but this was ultimately cut out of the final edit. So the actual title wouldn't be spoken onscreen until the Prequels came out.

[grobblin]

I love how if something gets cut in Star Wars, it usually ends up being used somewhere else

[Auntydaren]

I am so glad you mentioned the Star Wars radio drama. It’s a shame it’s no longer canon because there are a lot of good ideas at the start.

[bold]

I saw an interview with Mark Hamill where he talks about the change from Starkiller to Skywalker. He said they brought him in for the reshoot and his first thought was that instead of reshooting it he should ADR it and use the camera angle from the back. But, they wanted that line where the camera is on his face. Great list!

[timmy-the-ute]

I graduated from High School when Star Wars(1977) came out. George was right. It was the big talk at our graduation events.

[latewizard]

Always interpreted Luke's reaction to Owen and Beru as anger. He didn't learn to controll his anger until after Empire after all.

[Jedi_Spartan]

7:18 I assume that's where the idea of the cave came from in the Kenobi trailer.

[michaelroboski]

You’ve done such a great job once again! Thank you for consistently sharing your passion with us! This channel has only deepened my love for Star Wars with each and every video.

[jonathandejesus]

Great video! Didn’t know a lot of these. ANH was the first movie I went to see in theaters. I was 4 or 5 years old. After they all got out of the trash compactor, the film reel broke! We all started walking out and my family were a few feet from the exit before they told us it was fixed. We returned to finish the movie