Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[carl]

In the Jedi Temple, one of the "younglings" being trained by Yoda, is named "Liam" after Liam Neeson who played Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).

[ava]

Instead of creating a new C-3PO suit for the film, the designers repainted and "aged" the one used in the original trilogy.

[duane]

Shot over a period of 61 days in five different countries.

[camila]

Though the Republic AT-TE walkers were computer-generated, at least one 1/10th scale miniature was constructed for pyrotechnic purposes. The walker that gets blown apart by an armor-busting Hailfire missile was first shot as a miniature against greenscreen. This provided valuable reference for the animators, though the scale of the resulting miniature explosion proved unusable as a final element. Also, the miniature was shot with a static camera, while the finished shot, had a swooping camera move that followed the rocket: a CGI walker was needed to properly move with the perspective of the shot.

[russell]

George Lucas' daughter Katie appeared as a purple Twi'lek in the nightclub scene. Her older sister Amanda can also be spotted in the background when Obi-Wan and Anakin discuss the "changeling". Youngest sibling Jett appeared as a young Jedi in the Jedi Archive scene with Obi-Wan Kenobi and the librarian Jocasta Nu.

[wallace]

The missile launcher with the two big wheels is an IG-227 Hailfire droid tank. It was inspired by the Russian Tsar Tank, designed in 1914.

[gerald]

Obi-Wan's Astro Droid is called "R4". This is the name of a British strategy from World War II: Plan R 4.

[christina]

A conversation between Obi-Wan and librarian Jocasta Nu was written and filmed, but deleted, and would have identified the bust that Obi-Wan was looking at to be Count Dooku.

[phyllis]

The balcony Palpatine, Bail Organa and the other senators are standing on at the end of the film is part of the set for Padmé's apartment, seen much earlier.

[miriam]

The Separatist Droid Army is made up of Trade Federation Battle Droids and Droidekas seen in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), as well as the introduction of rapid-firing Super Battle Droids. The large Homing Spider Droids and the Dwarf Spider Droids belong to the Commerce Guild, while the missile-firing Hailfire Battle Droids belong to the IG Banking Clan.

[kim]

The Neimoidian seen with Nute Gunray on Geonosis was originally intended to be Rune Haako. However, Rune's mask was lost shortly after the first film completed shooting. The production crew gave uncredited actor David Healey the mask of Daultay Dofine instead. Although the "new" Neimoidian had no official name during filming (the character was only referred to by the crew as "Nute's friend"), he was eventually named Gilramos Libkath, after costume supervisor Gillian Libbert and production controller Kathryn Farrar. Unfortunately, a mix-up in the end credits not only erroneously lists Alan Ruscoe in the part, but also says the Neimoidian is Lott Dod (the Trade Federation Senator seen briefly in Episode I). Much confusion has surrounded whether Nute's companion should be considered Rune Haako, Gilramos Libkath, or Lott Dod. The official Lucasfilm word is that it's Rune Haako "for all intents and purposes", but many fans are unsatisfied with this decision, based on the fact that the character neither looks nor sounds anything like Rune, who is back to his old Episode I self by Episode III.

[fred]

The famous boy band *NSYNC filmed a scene of them playing Jedi, but were cut out of the final film.

[darrell]

In DVD commentaries, the crew claims that the fight between Jango Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi was intentionally made different from the other fights in the films, in that it focused more on physical and hand-to-hand combat, something not done in the films often.

[bryan]

George Lucas originally wanted Sammo Kam-Bo Hung to be the light-saber fight choreographer.

[caroline]

In the visual dictionary of the film: Jango Fett was adopted and raised by the Mandalorian Warrior Army after his parents were murdered.

[fred]

Padmé (Natalie Portman) is supposed to be a few years older than Anakin (Hayden Christensen). In real life, Christensen is almost two months older than Portman.

[jamie]

The death-sticks that the pusher tries to sell Obi-Wan were a hallucinogenic drug. The drug's name is an obvious reference to cigarettes. According to George Lucas, much like with cigarettes, with each dose, the user's life was shortened, the successive dosages took away larger chunks from their lifespan, and the desire for a more intense reaction increased. Lucas inserted this personally into the film, due to his strict views concerning smoking.

[ella]

Hugh Quarshie was originally slated to reprise his role as Captain Panaka from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). However, he turned down the offer after Lucasfilm refused to let him read the whole script, so his character was written out, and replaced with a newly created chief of Security Captain Typho, portrayed by Jay Laga'aia.

[terry]

Just before Anakin goes to search for his mother on Tatooine, he has a conversation with Senator Amidala. The camera pans to their shadows as they talk, and Anakin's resembles that of Darth Vader. According to the DVD commentary, the Vader-like shadow that Anakin casts was not a visual effect, but a coincidence.