Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[lena]

George Lucas allowed his friend Steven Spielberg to help design some sequences during pre-production. This was partly because Spielberg wanted the experience of using the pre-visualization techniques pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic, as he was going to use them for War of the Worlds (2005). It was also because Lucas felt that his roles as writer, director, executive producer, and financier were taking up too much of his time and he needed another director to bounce ideas off. Spielberg's main contribution was in the climactic lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader.

[bernard]

Count Dooku speaks a total of four lines.

[miriam]

The only PG-13 Star Wars movie to not be distributed by Disney.

[kenneth]

Palpatine's light-saber fight with the other Jedi reveals a completely different technique than has been seen before. The Chancellor uses his weapon like a fencing foil, striking with the tip. Since the beam cuts through any substance, this makes even a small strike a killing blow. Except for Mace Windu, all the other Jedi use the edge, which requires a wide space to deliver a stroke. This explains why Palpatine was able to kill so many Jedi in such a short amount of time.

[bessie]

This is the only movie in the franchise in which Darth Sidious uses a light-saber.

[beth]

Every clone trooper in the film is CGI. Not a single real clone costume or helmet was featured in the movie.

[cassandra]

When Padmé is looking at the Jedi Temple in her apartment, C-3PO's feet are CGI-made as Anthony Daniels would feel uncomfortable using 3PO's shoes.

[marc]

A glimpse at the original backstory as seen in the novelization of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (as well as strongly implied by Leia's lines in said movie) shows us that her mother, who is now known to be Padmé, was originally meant to survive Anakin's turn.

[lynn]

Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Elijah Wood, Dean Devlin, and Liam Neeson are all known to have visited the set during filming.

[marc]

Total number of screen wipes: forty.

[albert]

Anakin's neck-length hair and scar on his face are later copied by his grandson, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren, in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).

[violet]

Aiden Barton, the toddler who portrayed the infants Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, is the son of crew member Roger Barton.

[kenzi]

The fire trail when General Grievous' ship enters the Coruscant atmosphere was based on the fire trail during the ill-fated reentry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

[duane]

As Anakin settles into Palpatine's viewing box, take a look at box adjacent to the Chancellor's. It is filled with notable names from Industrial Light & Magic. Seated from left to right (first row) are visual effects producer Jill Brooks, animation supervisor Rob Coleman, visual effects producer Janet Lewin, (and back row) visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett, visual effects producer Denise Ream, and visual effects supervisor John Knoll. If you look at the shots that favor Palpatine during his wistful retelling of the Darth Plagueis yarn, you'll see Knoll sitting over his shoulder.

[kim]

John Williams passed on scoring Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) in favor of this movie and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).

[bryan]

This movie is noticeably much darker than the rest of the franchise, and the first one to be rated PG-13, instead of PG (PG-13 was a new MPAA rating which had been introduced one year after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) was released), of which has continued to be the case with every movie in the Star Wars saga since. Notably, this is due to the scene towards the end of the movie, where Darth Vader's body is badly burned by lava, reducing his body to a crispy state without any hair, while he is hanging towards the edge with no legs and only one arm, after losing the climatic duel against Obi-Wan Kenobi, which was able to explain why he needed a biomechanical suit, complete with helmet, in order to survive.

[russell]

The opening shot of the movie lasts one minute and sixteen seconds after the disappearance of the opening crawl, the longest of any Star Wars movie.

[maureen]

The planet Mustafar's similarity to the Arabic name "Mustafa" roughly translates to, "the Chosen One".

[wesley]

A subscription service offered by Lucasfilm offered fans the chance to watch various stages of the production via a webcam.