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9 unusual facts about Return of the Jedi


Collision course

In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi an A-Wing pilot crashed into the bridge of a Super Star Destroyer causing it critical damage.

Ice-T VI: Return of the Real

The title is a play on words based on the movie Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, with the "VI" referring to it being his sixth album.

Marcia Lucas

Her last credit was as one of the three editors of the third film in the original Star Wars trilogy Return of the Jedi (directed by Richard Marquand, 1983).

Michael Gilden

Gilden performed or did stunt work in a variety of television series and films, including Charmed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Family Law, Cybill, NCIS (TV series) and Pulp Fiction, and had a role as an Ewok in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.

New Wine Church

Independent film exhibitors Panton Films took over the building from 14 July 1983 and it reopened as the Coronet Cinema with Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Richard Edlund

Following the completion of the original Star Wars films with Return of the Jedi, Edlund set up his own effects company, Boss Films, whose credits include Ghostbusters.

Star Wars opening crawl

Each piece of scrolling text ends with a four-dot ellipsis, except for Return of the Jedi which has a three-dot ellipsis.

Very Fast Very Dangerous

The new title is taken from the Star Wars film of the same name.


Debbie Lee Carrington

She has appeared in many films and TV shows, including In Living Color, The Drew Carey Show, Return of the Jedi, Howard the Duck, Total Recall, Men in Black, Seinfeld, Baywatch, Married... with Children (1990), Boston Legal, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Dexter and Bones.

Garrett Brown

The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film Bound for Glory (1976), receiving an Academy Award (Best Cinematography), and since used on such films as Rocky, filming Rocky's running and training sequences, and Return of the Jedi, where Brown walked with the Steadicam shooting film at 1 frame per second to achieve the illusion of high speed motion during the speeder bike chase.

Lionel Newman

He was the musical supervisor for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Monsignor, and The Fury.


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All-Con

Guests included Battlestar Galactica actor Aaron Douglas, Return of the Jedi actors Tim Dry, Sean Crawford, and Mike Edmonds, plus Blazing Saddles actor Burton Gilliam and Who Wants to be a Superhero? contestant Tonya Kay (aka Creature).

Bakura

The Truce at Bakura, a 1993 Star Wars novel by Kathy Tyers taking place after Return of the Jedi

Mon Calamari cruiser

In Return of the Jedi, Admiral Ackbar (Timothy M. Rose) leads the Rebels during the Battle of Endor from the Mon Calamari cruiser Home One; although that ship survives, the Death Star's superlaser destroys other Mon Calamari cruisers, including the Liberty.