Curated playlist
Fictional generals
- Obi-Wan KenobiAlec Guinness later said he begged George Lucas to kill Obi-Wan Kenobi. Lucas agreed.
- Darth VaderThe actor inside Darth Vader's suit never knew his voice would be replaced. James Earl Jones voiced him instead.
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia began as a spoiled teenage princess in George Lucas's early drafts.
- Othello (character)Was Shakespeare's Othello from North Africa or Sub-Saharan Africa? Scholars still disagree.
- Han SoloHan Solo was first written as a green-skinned alien with gills. George Lucas's earliest draft gave him no nose.
- Lando CalrissianLando Calrissian welcomes his friends to Cloud City, then hands them to Darth Vader.
- Apocalypse (character)En Sabah Nur is the birth name of Apocalypse, a supervillain from Marvel Comics, and Marvel says the name means "The First One." That translation is considered grammatically incorrect. Broken into parts, the name joins words for "the,"…
- Mon MothmaTwenty-six and a half seconds is how long Caroline Blakiston says she appeared on screen as Mon Mothma in Return of the Jedi, released in 1983. Speaking in 1997, she explained that actors in new theater companies would spot the credit in…
- Kratos (God of War)Kratos, the scarred, ash-white Spartan at the center of Santa Monica Studio's God of War series, began as a set of rough drawings on restaurant napkins. Charlie Wen had forgotten his sketchbook, so he drew on whatever the table offered.…
- YodaYoda, the small green Jedi Master of the Star Wars films, dies at the age of 900. That is not the end of his story. His voice returns decades later, and he keeps turning up in new tales. He is tiny and elderly, and he arranges his words in…