Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) is an adventure/fantasy/sci-fi movie written and directed by George Lucas and music is composed by John Williams. The movie stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing in lead roles. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film had a budget of $11 million and released in 25th May, 1977.
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) tells the epic story of a group who set out to save the Galaxy from Empire’s world destroying battle station and rescue Princess Leia from the evil dark Lord Darth Vader.
This movie won 6 Academy Awards and dozens other. This also movie changed the history of world cinema and begin a new era. Today I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about the movie Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977).
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26. George Lucas had no faith in Star Wars!
Director and writer George Lucas had ill faith in Star Wars and predicted it would flop. He did not even attended the premier, instead he went on holiday with good friend Steven Spielberg. They spent the week in Hawaii and came up with the idea of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
25. Darth Vader was going to die in A New Hope!
Darth Vader was the first character George Lucas created for the film. He has a total of 12 minutes of screen time. Earlier Darth Vader was also scripted to die in the end but thankfully Lucas changed his mind.
24. George Lucas was hospitalized due to depression during filming!
George Lucas was often depressed during the shoot and was even hospitalized for hypertension. The cast often attempted to make him laugh or smile. George Lucas was was also very less communicative towards the cast and crew. His most used words were either “more intense” or “faster”. The crew provided him a board written only the above two phrases on it.
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23. “Star Wars: A New Hope” broke several Box-Office records worldwide!
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) broke many box-office records. Some are following
* Became 1st movie to gross over $300,000,000.
* 2nd film to gross more than $100 million at US box office after Jaws (1975).
* Adjusted for inflation, Stars Wars (1977) is second highest grossing movie of all time, only behind Gone with the Wind (1939).
22. Chewbacca is above 200 years old!
Studio Executives were unhappy that Chewbacca has no clothes and even tried to design clothes for him. But eventually they aggreed to George Lucas. Chewbacca the wookiee is 200 years old.
21. Star Wars was heavily underrated before it’s release!
At the time of distribution of this film to theatres only 40 theatres aggreed to show it. 20th Century Fox threatened that if any cinema refuses to show Star Wars then they will not be given the right to show the potential blockbuster “The Other Side of Midnight (1977)”. In the end this film earned 10% of what Star Wars did.
20. All stormtroopers are left-handed!
If one sees closely, all the stormtroopers are left handed. It is because of the construction of weapons. The magazine of the weapon is on left side and therefore they have to switch grip of the weapon, which made them look like left handed.
19. Han Solo never really knew his parents!
According to the “Star Wars” visual dictionary, Han Solo never really knew his parents and is raised by space gypsies. Director and friend of George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola inspired the attitude and character of Han Solo.
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