Star Wars Day Episode of "Disney+ Deets" Celebrates "A New Hope"

In celebration of Star Wars Day, today’s new episode of Disney+ Deets is all about the one that started it all, A New Hope.

What’s Happening:

Kenneth Brown and Marcellus Kidd are back with a new Star Wars themed episode of Disney+ Deets.
This episode is all about the first film in the series, released in 1977, Star Wars: A New Hope.
Here are some of the fun facts Kenneth and Marcellus share in this episode:
- George Lucas began thinking about Star Wars before he made his first film, THX 1138 in 1971.
- Lucas was most inspired by Flash Gordon stories and Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films from Japan.
- The first written treatment for what would become Star Wars was drafted in 1973, but he had a hard time selling the concept.
- James Earl Jones recorded all of his lines for Darth Vader in a single recording session that lasted two-and-a-half hours.
- Peter Kushing wore house slippers in scenes where his feet weren’t seen as Grand Moff Tarkin because the boots the wardrobe department made for him were too small.
- Luke Skywalker’s heroic swing with Princess Leia inside the Star Destroyer was done in a single take and in reality, they were only a few feet above the ground.
- 20th Century Fox wanted a narrator to read the opening crawl, but George Lucas refused.
At the end of the episode, Kenneth and Marcellus share that all of the facts from this episode come from The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film by J.W. Rinzler.

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