Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi movie reviews & Metacritic score: The Millennnium Falcon flashes through hyperspace and creatures from all over th. Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand.

In today’s age, Star Wars has practically created a separate genre of film just for itself, with spin- off television shows, books, video games, sequels, and prequels constantly in development. The total box office revenue of the combined films has reached over 7. Because of the vast number of media devoted to Star Wars, over the past few decades the universe has become incredibly dense with details and trivia.

As a result, many surprising facts about the production of these films have been forgotten, or even buried to the public. Even die- hard fans aren’t aware of some of the heartwarming, hilarious, and fascinating facts behind the scenes of this epic space opera. With films like The Last Jedi in the works and the Han Solo spinoff film in development, here are the 1. Things Even Die- Hard Fans Don’t Know About Star Wars. Alec Guinness thought the movies were “rubbish”Before Alec Guinness originated the role of Obi Wan in the first Star Wars, he was a classically trained actor known for films like Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he won an Oscar.

Because of his background rooted in Shakespearean theatre, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Guinness thought this sci- fi production, with its quirky alien characters, was beneath him. What is a little more surprising is knowing just how much he hated the film, because, boy, did Guinness reportedly hate these movies. In Guiness’ 2. 00. Guinness to a friend detailing his involvement with Star Wars, which he referred to as “fairy- tale rubbish.” In the letter, Guiness explained that he only took the part because of the offer of $1. Lucas had directed American Graffiti.

Guinness also wrote about how little he was enjoying filming, calling both Harrison Ford and George Lucas the wrong names, and describing his disgust with the “rubbish dialogue” and his unbearable character. Although the film ended up getting him another Oscar nomination, Guiness threw away any Star Wars- related fan mail without even opening it. Watch Running Wild Putlocker.

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George Lucas almost ended Episode VI with Luke turning to the dark side. Although the ending of Return of the Jedi is an emotionally resonant conclusion to the original trilogy complete with clone helmet bongo drums, the original ideas for the ending of the film were not quite as uplifting. The film considered several alternate endings, with a particularly shocking one involving Luke turning to the dark side instead of fighting for the Rebels. In this draft of the screenplay, after Vader sacrifices himself to save Luke and destroys Emperor Palpatine, Luke helps Vader take off his helmet and places it on his own head. In the exact words of the draft, “Luke takes off his mask.

The mask is the very last thing – and then Luke puts it on and says, ‘Now I am Vader.’” Definitely not as much reason for an Ewok party. NSYNC almost played Jedi warriors in Attack of the Clones There isn’t typically a big fan crossover between boy bands and science fiction films, but in 2.

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Callum pressured their fathers to have *NSYNC appear in Episode 2, the team extended the offer of a few small roles to the band. Although Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass declined the opportunity, Joey Fatone and other members of the band accepted the parts of Jedi knights in the Geonosis battle and the background of a meeting between Yoda and Obi Wan.

The *NSYNC boys were given robes and Padawan braids with lightsabers and showed up on set to shoot the two scenes, but unfortunately for boy band lovers and fortunately for everyone else, these scenes did not make it into the final cut of the film, and the band’s chance to become Star Wars legends went “Bye Bye Bye”. Luke Skywalker was originally called Luke Starkiller. Many die- hard Star Wars fans were shocked to find out recently through a Twitter Q& A with Mark Hamill that Luke Skywalker was not the first choice of names for this iconic character. Ice Spiders Full Movie. In fact, the cast and crew had been using the name “Luke Starkiller” months into production, filming with the name in Tunisia and London. Hamill even shot the film’s memorable Princess Leia rescue scene, saying “I’m Luke Starkiller, here to rescue you.”Luke’s surname was changed mainly due to the recent murder of actress Sharon Tate by Charles Manson, and Lucas didn’t want any connotations from “star killer” to be drawn by audiences. As a result the name was edited so there wouldn’t be any uneasy feelings about the film’s hero.

Years later, J. J. Abrams gave a nod to the name Starkiller in The Force Awakens by naming The First Order’s version of the Death Star the “Starkiller base.”1. Grand Moff Tarkin wore slippers during his scenes. With his chilling eyes and sharp features, Peter Cushing was known as a horror actor for much of his career, starring in films about Frankenstein, Dracula, mummies, ghouls, and werewolves before he took on the sinister Grand Moff Tarkin. Because Tarkin has the power to coldly destroy worlds with the snap of his fingers, it is quite a charming twist to find out that Cushing was wearing carpet slippers for many of his scenes in Star Wars.

Because Cushing has large, size 1. After struggling to remain menacing in these boots during shooting, Cushing asked Lucas if he could be filmed from the waist up for the rest of the scenes so his feet would be cut out of frame. Lucas agreed, so Cushing spent the rest of his time on set terrorizing Carrie Fisher and destroying the universe in comfort.

C- 3. PO’s costume broke and stabbed Anthony Daniels. Although the concept art for C- 3. PO is an aesthetically interesting blend of the human form with metallic robotics, the experience of actually living inside C- 3. PO was a little less shiny for actor Anthony Daniels. The costume consisted of a black body glove covered by restrictive, heavy aluminum, brass, and plastic, so filming for long hours inside this metallic coffin was not an overly pleasant task.

Combining that with the sweltering temperatures of the Tunisian desert and you can begin to understand what Daniels went through on set. According to Daniels, the heat was not the only difficult part of living inside C- 3. PO’s metallic skin. There were also a good deal of complications with the suit itself breaking constantly during shoots. In one particularly painful malfunction, the left leg of the suit shattered, breaking through the encasing around Daniels foot and stabbing him. Luckily, Daniels didn’t have any major injuries from the incident and was able to continue filming.

Carrie Fisher only wore gaffer tape under her costume. The late, beloved Carrie Fisher was just 2. Princess Leia in Star Wars, a part that would quickly propel her to fame and become one of the most iconic female roles in American cinema.

Although the part afforded Fisher the chance to start her successful career as a film actress, the process wasn’t entirely glamorous. Not only was she told to lose 3. According to her book, Wishful Drinking, George Lucas approached Fisher on the first day of filming and informed her that she wouldn’t be able to wear a bra on set. According to him, “there is no underwear in space,” which he explained with an elaborate anecdote about space weightlessness resulted in a woman getting strangled by her own bra. For this reason, Fisher had to tape over her breasts with gaffer tape in the absence of real underwear.

Studio executives wanted Chewbacca to wear pants because his nakedness was too provocative. As the most famous Wookie in the galaxy, Chewbacca quickly became a Star Wars fan favorite, possibly only matched by R2- D2.