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unusual facts about Star Wars: Episode II



A-wing

The A-wing is also flyable in Battlefront II and the Rogue Squadron series, and it appears in other LucasArts Star Wars titles such as Empire at War.

Aerican Empire

The group's activities are permeated by a great deal of humour and a love of science fiction and fantasy, with recurrent references to Star Wars, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and similar works.

Andrew Hewitt

At Abbey Road and Air Studios he has performed on many film scores, for such conductors as John Williams and Howard Shore - including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Doomsday, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Golden Compass and A Christmas Carol.

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Battle Through Time

Each level has its own music theme, which consist of computer renditions of various famous melodies, such as Symphony #5 by Ludwig van Beethoven and The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss the Younger, and contemporary classics such as the Star Wars theme.

Cad Bane

Cad Bane is a fictional character Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy, as a recurring antagonist voiced by Corey Burton in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Conrad Phillip Kottak

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Darth Bane

He is a major antagonist in the Jedi vs. Sith comic book series, and the protagonist of the novels Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Darth Bane: Rule of Two and Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil.

Dave Filoni

He is most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls

The attraction's queue area passes through: Snidely Whiplash's hideout; a theater that spoofs movies such as "Jaws," "The Silence of the Lambs", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Three Men and a Baby" and "Star Wars"; and a room with a talking bear head and a talking beaver head on a wall.

Ertl Company

Ertl has also, on different occasions, acquired the licenses to produce die-cast vehicles and figurines as well as model kits for Looney Tunes, Garfield, Thomas the Tank Engine, Super Mario Bros. DC Comics, and Star Wars.

Fog City Mavericks

The film also shows some of the movies made by these filmmakers such as American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Black Stallion, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Toy Story and many others.

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga

It also includes the original deleted scene from the first Star Wars film featuring Han Solo's meeting with Jabba the Hutt, who was then played by Irish actor Declan Mulholland (the scene was later restored for the 1997 Special Edition of Star Wars in which a CGI Jabba was superimposed over Mulholland and his dialogue dubbed).

Grand Moff Tarkin

Grand Moff Tarkin, real name Wilhuff Tarkin and also known as Governor Tarkin, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, portrayed by Peter Cushing and Wayne Pygram and voiced by Stephen Stanton.

James Georgopoulos

The "Guns of Cinema" series also expresses his affinity for the film and television industry by photographing a number of motion picture and television cameras; which include those from Titanic, Star Wars, Thriller, James Bond, Kill Bill, and Apocalypto).

John Shelton Lawrence

Matthew Kapell and Lawrence’s co-edited book, Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics (2006), examines the myths, the stereotypes, sexualities, the toys, and the critical response to the two Star Wars trilogies.

Joseph Gatt

Gatt voices Lord Scourge in the LucasArts/Bioware game Star Wars: The Old Republic and several characters on the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Linda Woolverton

In 1984 she worked as a children's television writer, penning scripts for shows such as Ewoks, The Real Ghostbusters, Alvin and the Chipmunks,"My Little Pony" Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and Ducktales.

Margit Sandemo

Besides these she is fond of Star Wars films, thriller film The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme and earliest episodes of TV-series The X-Files.

Michael Kingma

Outside of basketball, Kingma, along with fellow Australian basketballers Axel Dench and David Stiff, played a part in Star Wars: Episode III as Wookiees.

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.

Nerf Blaster

Cross-promotional models have also been released, themed around Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers.

Os Tarados

The movie reuses (probably without authorization) many themes from the 'Star Wars' series.

Phil Hawkins

Carrie Fisher (Actress Star Wars and writer) said his work "was the most visual they have seen" whereas fellow judge and director Brett Ratner said he was "a big fan".

Screwed in Tallinn

Lasse Kongo's lines are mostly incomprehensible to the audience, expect for intermittent outbursts of "Shut up!", yet Percy seems to understand him perfectly, something that is reminiscent of the interaction between Chewbacca and Han Solo in Star Wars

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Some gameplay elements included, such as the historic missions section, are evident in later Lawrence Holland games including X-Wing.

Star Pilot

In the fall of 1977, to quickly capitalize on the public's fervor for sci-fi movies following the unexpected success of Star Wars, the film was dubbed in English and released in the United States under a new title.

Star Wars Scrapbook: The Essential Collection

Star Wars Scrapbook is a book with pull-out reproductions of Star Wars merchandise/artifacts, in a similar fashion to the books Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and Tupac Shakur Legacy.

Star Wars: Battlefront

As Episode III had not been released at the time, the Clone Wars campaign ends with the Battle of Kashyyyk.

Star Wars: Behind the Magic

The box includes a limited-edition full-color print of a painting by artist Ralph McQuarrie, "Yoda and R2-D2 in the swamps of Dagobah".

Star Wars: Dark Forces

The Dark Forces soundtrack uses the iMUSE system to create interactive music using the Star Wars soundtrack composed by John Williams.

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi

A novel released on May 7, 2013 is written by fantasy author Tim Lebbon.

Star Wars: Empire at War

The campaign explores how the X-Wing is pressed into the service of the Rebel Alliance, the liberation of Kashyyyk, the first whisperings of a brand new Imperial superweapon and ultimately the Battle of Yavin.

The player(s) can use only the equipment they brought to the battle (be it an X-wing squadron or an AT-AT).

Star Wars: Force Commander

:Force Commander is also the name of a character in the Micronauts toy line.

Star Wars: Rebel Assault

The game largely takes place during the events of Episode IV: A New Hope; however, the sequences on Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back are included.

Star Wars: Republic Commando

These Clone commandos have been specially bred at the clone factories on Kamino.

Sterling Hershey

Sterling Hershey is a full-time architect and freelance game designer, who has worked on two different incarnations of the Star Wars role-playing game for both West End Games and Wizards of the Coast and also on the Star Wars Miniatures game.

The Breakfast

Other Freakout themes have included The Big Lebowski and the Star Wars series, where the band has played sets that interspersed their own music with songs from the movies.

The Charge at Feather River

The movie is most notable for originating the name of the "Wilhelm scream", a sound effect used in the Star Wars film series, as well as countless other movies including Indiana Jones (franchise), Disney cartoons and The Lord of the Rings (film series).

The Moore Show

Notable names which have been on the show include British Astronomer Patrick Moore, Coronation Street actor William Roache, Star Wars actor David Prowse and psychic medium, Colin Fry .

Tusken Raiders

A Tusken Raider named Hoar appears as a playable character in the PlayStation fighting game Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi.

In the Xbox Original game Star Wars: Battlefront II players are allowed to play as Tusken Raiders in a special game mode called "hunt".

X-Bomber

Two of the English voice actors, Jay Benedict and Garrick Hagon, had appeared in Star Wars (1977) portraying Deak and Biggs, two of Luke Skywalker's friends on Tatooine (though Hagon's role was reduced in editing and Benedict's scenes were cut altogether).

Year of the Black Rainbow

I don't know if it was necessary to make prequels for Star Wars, but this is where Coheed and Cambria came from.

ZenGems

Former LucasArts game designer Hal Barwood known for several Star Wars and Indiana Jones titles of the early to mid 1990's designed several of the levels of ZenGems.


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