My father has it,

I have it,

and now you have it.

- The Force is strong with this one.

- Hmm.

- Here are 50 Amazing Facts about Star Wars.

In his personal life,

Harrison Ford is actually an accomplished pilot.

When they were planning his return in The Force Awakens,

he asked them to make sure

that the switches in the Millennium Falcon

had a realistic, springy feel to it.

He also taught Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey,

to not push buttons too frantically

because everything needs to have a purpose.

- In Attack of the Clones,

in the scene where Anakin and Padme

are romantically sitting in a field talking,

there were actually a lot of bugs

flying around them while filming the scene.

The visual effects team had to remove each bug

during post-production, painting each one out by hand,

one frame at a time.

It took weeks to do.

- When Star Wars first came out in 1977,

Carrie Fisher was 20 years old,

Mark Hamill was 25,

and Harrison Ford was 34,

making him 14 years older than Carrie.

- James Earl Jones, who voiced Darth Vader,

was not originally credited in the New Hope

or The Empire Strikes Back

because his dialog for both films

only took a few hours to record.

David Prowse, the six foot seven man

in the Darth Vader suit,

was credited because he spent months as Vader on set.

However, James Earl Jones's name was finally added

to the credits for Return of the Jedi.

- While shooting The Force Awakens,

a 63-year-old Mark Hamill,

who plays an old Luke Skywalker,

was the same age as Sir Alec Guinness, 63,

when he played the original Ben Kenobi

in the first Star Wars.

- To create the hologram of Princess Leia saying,

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope,"

they played the footage of her

back through an old analog TV,

and then they wiggled the cord

so that it would appear all fuzzy and staticy

and have lines through it.

They then filmed that staticy TV with another camera.

- Before making The Force Awakens,

Disney bought Lucasfilm back in 2012

for over $4 billion.

George Lucas, who owned 100% of the Lucasfilm empire,

donated most of it to charity.

- For both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi,

Sir Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan,

was able to film all of his scenes in just one day each,

as opposed to the rest of the cast who would have

spent months filming on sets around the world.

- Have you ever wondered what Mark Hamill

has been up to for the past 30 years?

Well, you might not have seen his face much.

That's actually because he's a very successful voice actor,

most well known as the voice

of the animated Joker since 1992.

- Carrie Fisher was asked if she wanted a stunt double

for the shots where she kills Jabba the Hut.

She said that she really wanted to do it herself

and that it was the best time she had as an actor.

- The droids in The Force Awakens were actually made

by hardcore Star Wars fans who were part of a fan club

called The R2-D2 Builders Club.

The president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy,

met them at a fan event and commissioned them herself

to work on the droids for Episode VII.

- The name Ewok was never actually spoken

during any of the Star Wars films.

The word "Ewok" mostly became well known

due to the merchandising, the animated television series,

and two made-for-TV movies.

- Ben Burtt, the sound designer for all six Star Wars films,

is credited with coming up with the original sound effects

for the lightsaber, R2-D2, and more.

He also provides the voice for another famous robot, Wall-E.

- In 1983's Return of the Jedi,

88-year-old Emperor Palpatine

was played by Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid,

who was only 38 years old at the time,

wearing heavy prosthetics and makeup.

16 years later, in 1999,

McDiarmid, who was then 54 years old,

again played the Emperor in Episodes I through III,

except this time he was considerably older

playing a much younger version of the same character.

- There's a popular myth that states that Darth Vader

got his name from the German "vater" meaning father.

While it is a wonderful coincidence,

he actually got his name from a creative play

on the words "dark invader."

- In A New Hope, there's a scene where a number

of stormtroopers enter a room on the Death Star

and the tallest stormtrooper actually hits his head

on the ceiling as he enters the room.

As a nod to this mistake, the filmmakers added a scene

in Attack of the Clones where Jango Fett,

who was the original host of the cloned troopers,

hits his head while entering his ship.

- For the famous line, "I am your father"

uttered by Darth Vader,

George Lucas wanted to make sure

that spoilers didn't leak from the set,

so the official shooting script

actually contained a different plot twist:

"Obi-Wan killed your father."

The real line was voiced after by James Earl Jones

and added in post-production.

- In Return of the Jedi, George Lucas wanted to have

the Empire defeated by a tribe of primitive Wookiees.

When it was pointed out that Chewbacca

was a technologically proficient Wookiee,

they decided to change the species.

Because Wookiees were tall,

they made the Ewoks short.

They even took the word Woo-kiee and flipped it.

E-wok.

- The Star Wars movies use certain colors

to help the viewer know what they're looking at.

The heroes' ships usually have red lasers,

while the villains' ships usually have green.

Also, in Episode II, the heroes' missiles

all shoot with white smoke,

while the villains' missiles shoot with black.

- In The Empire Strikes Back,

when Luke clashes with Darth Vader,

there is a shot where Vader falls out of the frame

and Luke jumps down after him.

If you look in the lower left corner of the frame,

you can see Mark Hamill bounce back up

on a trampoline into the shot

and look directly into the camera.

- The Podrace scene in Episode I

was entirely digitally created for the film

because nowhere on Earth looks like that,

and even if it did, there no cameras

that can travel fast enough to convey the race.

That's because pods are meant to be racing

at over 966 kilometers per hour,

or 600 miles per hour.

- Star Wars: Episode V and Episode VI

were not actually directed by George Lucas.

After completing A New Hope,

George went to his old instructor

from the University of Southern California

and convinced him to direct The Empire Strikes Back.

That's director Irvin Kershner.

- Famous actress Keira Knightley was in Episode I.

She was the handmaiden that pretends

to be the queen to keep Padme safe.

- While on the set in Northern Africa

filming the desert scenes,

the script originally had Luke's last name as Starkiller.

George Lucas changed it to Skywalker

as the production headed to England

before filming the rest of the movie.

As an homage to this,

J.J. Abrams named a new superweapon

Starkiller Base in The Force Awakens.

- Christopher Lee,

who played Count Dooku in Episodes II and III,

holds the Guinness World Record for the most

films with a sword fight by an actor.

He even did his own lightsaber fighting

for his close-up shots, at 80 years old.

- One of the most memorable scenes with Han Solo

is the exchange he has over the intercom on the Death Star.

Harrison Ford intentionally never memorized his lines,

fumbling and ad libbing what was in the original script

to give the scene authenticity.

- When the first Star Wars came out in May of 1977,

it was the first film to have massive merchandising success.

In fact, the demand for toys was so huge

that Kenner Toys weren't able to produce them in time.

So what did they do?

Well, that Christmas they ended up literally

selling empty boxes with a certificate inside.

The box contained an order form

for people to mail away to Kenner,

who eventually shipped back four action figures.

- Adjusted for inflation, the original Star Wars movie

is the third highest grossing film of all time,

having made over $2.8 billion,

and surpassed only by Avatar and Gone with the Wind.

- Revenge of the Sith has the record

for the longest sword fight in cinematic history.

- While shooting The Empire Strikes Back,

they hadn't yet cast who would play the Emperor,

so the makeup designer of the film, Rick Baker,

got his wife to provide the face

and they superimposed her eyes

with those of a chimpanzee.

Over 30 years later, while shooting Revenge of the Sith,

they got Ian McDiarmid to reshoot the scene

and inserted him digitally into a film he was never in.

- At the beginning of Return of the Jedi,

as Luke enters Jabba's palace,

we see what he appears to be him Force choking

the guards at the entrance,

which sounds like a Dark Side thing to do,

but there is a popular theory that states

that what he's actually doing is using a Jedi mind trick

to make them think they're being choked

without actually hurting them.

- In The Empire Strikes Back there's a very memorable scene

in which Han Solo is frozen in carbonite.

They did this because they weren't certain

if Harrison Ford was going to come back

for Return of the Jedi,

as he hadn't signed his contract yet for the film.

- Every single clone trooper

throughout the prequel trilogy is 100% digital.

- In The Phantom Menace,

during one of the thrilling senate scenes,

E.T. the extra-terrestrial can be seen in a pod.

Similarly, there is scene in the movie E.T.

that features a child dressed up as Yoda on Halloween.

This was to fulfill a promise between George Lucas

and Steven Spielberg, who are best friends.

- Samuel L. Jackson was really excited to be a Jedi

and decided to add his own personal flair to the character,

specifically requesting a purple lightsaber,

his favorite color.

He also got a little creative,

because on the hilt of his lightsaber

was engraved the words "bad mother(bleeped),"

which made it into the movie,

but were covered by his hands.

- Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3PO,

is the only actor to appear in all seven Star Wars movies.

- Originally, lightsabers were only ever intended

to be blue or red, but they had to change

Luke's lightsaber to green during the visual effects stage

because his lightsaber wouldn't show up

against the blue sky of Tatooine.

- While filming The Force Awakens,

a door on the Millennium Falcon fell on Harrison Ford,

breaking his left leg.