Marcia Lucas didn't just "Help Edit" A New Hope, she changed the entire pacing and mood of the movie, and won an Oscar for it! She deserves a LOT more credit.

I always wondered if the Ewoks ate the storm troopers before turning the helmets to drums. People never mention the little rascals were about to cook Han Solo as a main course.

The Han torture scene is nothing compared to Owen and Beru burning to death. They even positioned the skeleton to look like it was crawling out of the hut as it was burning. Imagine them actually showing that scene lol

I met David Prowse before he passed, got his autograph. That man is terrifyingly large, even without the Vader suit the giant of a man's presence terrified me into silence. Compared to when I met Ray Park and we chatted about how Darth Maul was underutilized until they brought him back in the Clone Wars cartoons, Ray Park comes off as very lively and friendly. David Prowse had me worried he was going to break my face even though he was just quietly sitting there.

I never even saw Carrie Fisher in a sexual way. I felt that the whole thing fit the depraved atmosphere of the hutts.

Anakin/Vader DID bring balance to the force. Previously, there were thousands of Jedi and only a few Sith. Now it's far more equal. What a dude.

Those Ewoks definitely ate those stormtroopers

#11 The Ewoks are playing the empty helmets of fallen Stormtroopers at a celebration banquet, but nobody mentions where the dead stormtroopers bodies are? 🤔.... Remember, they were planning on eating Luke, Han, and Chewie, when they first met. 😂....and where are the Imperials who were taken prisoner? 🤔....

Well this one goes to legends. In legends the reason Sith light-sabers are red is because they use artificial Kyber Crystals which they tune with the dark side of the force. It is hinted that the reason Windu's light saber is purple is because he used an artificial Kyber Crystal and tuned it with the light side of the force in an attempt to better understand the Sith and the dark side.

Dark fact no. 11: Sith Lords can force choke themselves for asphyxi-wanks.

Take it from someone who knows: if you’re literally in constant pain, eventually your brain habituates *somewhat* in an effort to preserve sanity. You have whole moments where you just don’t notice the pain at all, and then those moments stretch. It’s not the same as not *being* in pain, to be clear, but your conscious mind isn’t struggling with it. Those moments stretch mercifully into minutes, hours, maybe for some even days. I have had the occasional day where I gave no thought to my pain. Until a Star Wars YT video listicle reminds me. Ah well, NBD.

5:04...and there are hundreds of recorded hours of R2 and 3PO's bickering: "The Shut Up, Little Man!" holo-chron became an underground favorite among the Alliance.

Fun Fact about David Prowse: He also played Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy." "I am responsible for his body...And I am not responsible for yours. So take it away before it gets...broken."

I really do wish you guys would disclaim that the lightsaber bleeding concept is Disney cannon which steers away from the Legends (Old EU) explanations, which IMO was much better.

The radio drama for A New Hope makes Vader’s torture of Leia on the Death Star a lot worse.

The different colors for Jedis lights sabers actually wasn't to sell more toys. The bring in green for Luke was because at the time of filming on the sail barge blue could not be seen well so they moved to green. Which made blue and green light sabers. It's only a bi-product that they could sell more toys from it.

Part of the reason Star Wars 4-6 has the magic it does that the prequels and sequels don't have IMHO opinion is because of Marcia Lucas. And GL will goto his grave never acknowledging that.

You missed the story about how Ford (during the force awakens) would roll up on set in a limousine and when he would open the door to get out, huge clouds of weed smoke would come flying out the limo 😊

These videos never fall to disappoint

How about Carrie Fisher hanging around with the legend John Belushi during the making of Empire Strikes Back and her love of the white powder.

Nothing is darker than Padme having a pedo crush on Anakin, and Luke making out with his sister Leia.

Interesting twist that they could have written in if they had the forethought: Vader "bleeds" the crystal from Ahsoka's saber he picks up at the end of the clone wars series. His saber reacts to her presence during that scene in Rebels, turning the blade purple momentarily. Makes me think of a possible back story for Mace Windu's saber as well. Could have been interesting

#9 - Torture Scene - The human imagination is far more powerful than anything viewers could've been shown. Remember in classic horror, the anticipation of the killer is scarier than when the killer actually arrives. Or at least, is far scarier on arrival because of the anticipation. :P People today need to be shown everything, or they can't believe it happened. Action movies, for instance, "I didn't see the gun being reloaded, so it must have an infinite magazine! Immersion broken!" It's amazing they don't demand toilet scenes, or else, nobody must use the bathroom in Star Trek or Star Wars! edit: #1 - Marcia Lucas - I can't help but wonder if Disney Star Wars hired Marcia Lucas to edit their stuff, and correct some of the bad writing with ideas that are actually good, if they couldn't turn the burning dumpster fire back around....

Do British people pronounce Marcia "Mar-See-Uh"? I have always heard it pronounced "Marsh-Uh". It may have been something we Americans ruined! I applaud you in making Marcia Lucas number one. She absolutely deserves much more credit than she's been given!

#8 sounds like a crossover with Resident Evil.

An "old man" didn't tell her to take her clothes off, he told her not to wear them.

The first time you meet your future father-in-law

5:28 Hahaha Okay that caught me off guard, it was very good

Harrison Ford gets injured on set seems to a thing of almost every film he's been in. Ii swear the man is made of granite.

LOL, Anakin *did* restore balance, Gareth. What the Jedi failed to note is they were indeed swung too far to authoritarianism and rigid structure that's just as dangerous as greed and chaos. They were effectively a branch of the government that rivalled the actual government in power -- like the Templars, or the Middle Ages Catholic Church. He knocked them down to the same level as the Sith and focused again on the Sith, rather than government. Interesting bit on the Sith lightsabers, though. First book I read outside the trilogy was Alan Dean Foster's "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" that addressed recharging blasters and I think stated the Sith used artificial crystals, where the Jedi used natural ones (kind of like how cubic zirconia were derided as not "real" diamonds at the time).

Crimson blades are the result of synthetic crystals

1: in the original canon, the sith made their own - but they used synthetic crystals.

I do not like Porgs because RIAN had Chewbacca build a fire, kill, field dress and spit-roast a Porg THEN feel guilty and NOT eat the damn thing. Still didn't sell any toys from the sequel trilogy

I actually have a Gammorean Guard costume, from 40 years ago; that is misprinted "Revenge of the Jedi" (jokingly refer to as "my retirement fund")

"Am thi father lad"

"Bleeding" is only part of the Disneyverse canon, not the true Star Wars universe.

If Luke was " A little short for a storm trooper ", he would have made a less than impressive Vader. He would have been more like Dark Helmet from Space Balls.

Not all Sith use a red blade, for instance, take Revan, using a purple one.

2:25 Those kids would see Robocop, Rambo, Terminator, Predator, Friday the 13th, Freddie Kruger, etc, etc....they'd more likely though it would have been cool to see.

I knew all of these except Ford’s accident. I guess I am a Star Wars Nerd.

I guess Darth Vader was too busy invading the Jedi Temple and "rewarding" the Separatist Leaders to bleed his saber before Obi-Wan stole it, but then many fans think that all happened before he was Darth Vader despite Darth Sidious giving him the name right after Mace went out the Windu. Many fans don't seem to know that Count Dooku is Darth Tyranus either lol 😝

I got a good one for you what happened to all the dead Jedi bodies at the Jedi temple the clone took them outside the steps and they burned them all in front of the a crowd 😳 and is from the Star Wars comics

1:47 The scan grid was a piece of mining equipment that analyzed metals by emitting electrical charges to gather data. In Cloud City, Darth Vader used a scan grid's electrical charges to "analyze" and "gather data" of a different nature by torturing Han Solo.

You have to wonder if the Ewoks, seeing as they counted humans as food, ate the Stormtroopers that they collected the helmet drums from?

"Gripping storylines, well-written characters..." Not anymore.

I'm sure that 2, ROTJ ending with Luke turning evil, is just an urban legend.

I've heard that the biggest reason why George Lucas remastered and changed so much about the original trilogy is so that he didn't have to pay his ex-wife any royalties.

Here I am thinking I’m just a causal type Star Wars fan. Yet I knew all the facts you gave on this video. Omg I’m just a hair throw away from dressing as my favorite character and going to a comic con….

Funny that kyber crystals bond with their wielders but anyone can activate a lightsaber not belonging to them, regardless of whether force-sensitive or not.

Missed the part about Vader possibly torturing his own daughter (not that anyone knew that at the time) on the Death Star in "A New Hope".

Without Marcia there would be no Star Wars. George's cut of a New Hope was dreadful, too long, and confusing. The Prequels proved that George is an idea man, not an do it man.

They should have shown the torture scene in episode 5. I've always wanted to see it

My friend in high school said Vader purposely tortures Solo to prepare his system for the sudden shock-blast of carbon freezing. Han Solo had to have elevated BP, heart rate, adrenaline levels. 📊📂🔬

When you said r2d2 and c-3p0 hate each other i think we all know that do to how much they argue and such

I’m pretty sure most people in that world don’t like Anthony Daniels..

Some new, some not-so-much. About Vader's suit: very complex design, a wearable life support system, also, as stated, a wearable torture device. Ok, these make sense (from a certain point of view). How did Papa Palpatine get the suit so fast? Obi-Wan takes off from Mustafar and goes to the planet where Padme poops out the kids. Palpy senses Vader is blowing it out his ass, and heads to Mustafar, grabs Vader and heads back to Coruscant. Padme gives birth, then kicks the bucket (I'm of the theory that Palps is drawing her life force to keep Vader alive), while at the same time Vader getting all pimped and tweeked, and his new suit is being put on him. At what point did His Empororness have time find a sadistic tailor/doctor to make the suit?

I don't know where you pulled the info for red crystals. But, legends at least. There are (very rarely) naturally occurring red crystals, however they're prolific because the sith created artificial kyber which was one of sith alchemy. Leading to the imbuing of the darkside into the crystal and causing the red coloration. On top of that, a kyber crystal can react to the corruption of it's owner. If the link between person and crystal is strong enough or the corruption that deep, it shifts the color of the crystal/blade.

The bleeding kaiber crystal thing is silly. Cannon is whatever I want it to be lol

Also Darth vader was the "Green Cross Code" man in the UK, teaching kids how to safely cross the road.

Disappointed you didn’t mention the “decraniated”

David Prowse being banned from live events is untrue. He'd been involved in several comic cons. I know people who had met him.

in the eu luke taking Vader's helm did come to fruition in the dark empire stories from dark horse

I always felt the title "Return of the Jedi" was a sort of a nod to another great trilogy. The Lord of the Rings's third instalment, titled "Return of the King." That trilogy also has the philosophy that evil cannot create anything, only warp what was already created.

Quite a few of these facts are very well known and often spoken about! And using the EU in your list doesn’t work anymore. Disney was dumb and wiped it out, remember?

Vader's lightsaber crystal is the glassed Tusken Raider blood-soaked sand of Tatooine Also his suit's joints have Tatooine sand in them

#10 That's completely ridiculous.

I hate the new lightsaber color Cannon... It used to be that the sith Use Synthetic crystals more akin to blaster tech making a sith lightsaber wound indistinguishable from a blaster wound.

Good to know.

I'm not really sure the bit about Vader's suit is believable. After all, this is someone who is enough of a mechanical genius to rebuild a protocol droid and a podracer when he was 9 years old. I can't imagine he couldn't have altered the suit over time.

Dark Fact Nr 13: Jabba's tail wasn't really a tail

Marcia Lucas was never with child. They adopted a baby girl named Amanda.

If it hasn't been mentioned already...the Ewoks most likely ate the dead imperials...at the very least ate any survivors. Remember they were going to cook and eat Luke, Han and Chewie.

#2 Not even that horrible ending is worse than Ewoks.

If I have to suffer one more jibe at the expense of David Prowse's accent I swear I will drop this and any other channel that does it. David was a actor. On set he had to shout through his mask so that the other actors could get their lines. If he had been asked back to deliver a performance in post production he wouldn't have sounded the same. It wouldn't have been James Earl Jones but it wouldn't have been Darth Farmer. He couldn't have leaked being Lukes father to the press as nobody knew it at the time of that infamous newspaper interview. He just speculated an idea. At that point Vader wasn't Anakin. That wouldn't happen for another couple of years and only Lucas Kershner and Hamill knew. It's just another instance of Lucasfilm treating actors like crap. Peter Serafinowicz only found out he wasn't in Solo :A Star Wars Story when he excitedly sat down to watch it at his own expense with his kids. All his lines had be replaced without even dropping him a note.

Really disappointed that this started in the realm of Star Wars lore and then turned into unpleasant truths about the cast and creator.

Lol, "coins in Disney's pockets".

what about the scene they filmed of the Death Star turning towards Endor to wipe out everyone on the base?

I don't know why the title is 10 dark facts star wars facts that are never talked about when it makes more sense to say 10 dark star wars facts that are never talked about since it sounds cleaner and nicer and better and is easier to say comment or like if you agree

Team Kenny Baker.

So my question is... WHY THE HELL IS THERE NOT A VIDEO GAME based on that zombie??? Why???

No one ever mentions, Leia's stylish hairstyle with incredibly long hair and a dress.....among the Ewoks. Ewok, Wookie....lack of imagination. Just anagrams

you forget a few things, surely it`s a bit dark for a company apparently involved in family films, and especially being represented by a giant rat, to then not only be extremely greedy and gobble up lucas film, but even more so when they then make even more star wars films, and make then even more darker than what apparently went before, and who does not need therapy after watching our beloved han die, i`m not exactly sure what i`m supposed to think about the republic not only getting together an army, but then also them apparently all being a clone of jango fett, in battle just how many times does the little boba fett have to watch his father die, all over again, and surely it`s even possible that if perhaps young boba did not have his daddy brutally killed in front of him, then not only would he have it, less in for the jedi, he would perhaps also be a better person, and less of a cold hearted killer, so before the end of the revenge of the sith, we can imagine that it`s possible that anakin would be friendly towards the little kid jedi`s, and maybe even help in there training, but off course then good old uncle anakin turns up, and kills the lot, and after the first poor child realising whats happening, and off course not only seeing them die, but then also soon thinking i`m next, note to ben kenobi, also while i get the fact that darth vader as he is now apparently known needs to be stopped, insulting him, and chopping off all of his limbs was perhaps a bit excessive, don`t you think, and is there perhaps also deleted scenes out there, where ben also kicks him in the nads, spits in his face, and then gives him a giant wedgie, after first shoving shit in his face, so not only are you doing all this to someone who only a little while ago was your best friend, but you maybe also considered him as a family member, and may be even a brother, so not only are you causing him extreme pain and suffering, but you are also giving him a reason to hate all jedi, and especially you, and no doubt all he can think about is getting revenge on you in some part of the future, and off course you badly ruining his body, can only mean that he does not really have much choice, but to put on the vader suit, and survive, and be controlled by the suit, and the emperor in more ways than one, and finally in return of the jedi when the rebels get to the ewok`s camp, and apparently it will soon be rebel buffet for supper, and then later on we see some fur ball using storm troopers helmets as a sadistic drum kit, am i supposed to think about what he did with there dead bodies, did he first dine on them or what.

"a powerful man telling a young woman to take her clothes off, not cool at all." My wife likes it, most women do. Whatculture? more like Whatcuckture.

Why aren't we getting any celebration content here?

Star Wars Never-Spoken Fact Number Eleven: "First Big Break" In addition to Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Adam Driver, and others, George helped Liam Neeson break. 6:53

Jar Jar bunks accent

I do not like the new Disney version of Sith light sabers. They used to make synthetic crystals.

10 Dark Facts Star Wars Facts That Are Facts

Jar Jar doesn't ruin Star Wars The Last Jedi doesn't ruin Star Wars Knowing Leia isn't wearing underwear... very well might ruin Star Wars

Weirdly when you reference stat war's legends books... the image you used is mostly Canon books 🤣.

Marcia Lucas was never pregnant during the production of the first trilogy. George is sterile. That is why he adopted 3 children.

I thought Marcia Lucas was only involved in Star Wars.

#2 - Having a young Skywalker take Vader's helmet and just simply turning evil? Yep... that didn't work at all. Glad we dodged that bullet for a couple decades. Thanks a lot Disney.

So... Carrie no underwear 2B eye candy for male audience but no torture in a movie for kids.... Because everybody knows men are kids, right? So - no target audience discrepancy whatsoever.

The no bra thing did more to date ANH than all the attempts to make it not dated managed to prevent.

the bleeding is a disney thing not cannon

Good grief! The light saber nonsense needs to stop. They don’t bleed, they don’t choose their owners, nor do they bond with them.

Each and every lightsaber should have made a different ignition and deactivation sound. I know some did, but not all did.

It would be great if Disney hired George Lucas ex-wife to work on the new films

I'm sorry, but what the hell is he saying at 6:05?