Questions tagged [production]
The act of creating a work (esp. movies: filming).
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Exactly how secret was the reveal in The Empire Strikes Back?
Arguably the most famous scene in Star Wars is when Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that
This surprise was kept secret to most of the crew and even the cast during production, with Dave Prowse, ...
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Why does Star Trek use Celsius (SI system), not Fahrenheit (the imperial system)?
Why does the Star Trek franchise (produced in the USA) use Celsius for temperature and other units from SI, rather than Fahrenheit and units from the imperial system (still widely used in USA)? ...
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What is the origin of all Star Wars movies?
Please dispel (or confirm, but I doubt) this thing I keep hearing about Star Wars. I heard that all 6 Star Wars movies had been written many years before their filming, even before the first movie ...
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Is/was General Leia Organa expected to be in the next episodes (VIII and IX) of Star Wars?
With the death of Carrie Fisher, does it have any impact on the next Star Wars films, episodes VIII and IX? Was she slated to be on 8-9? Has principal photography started with her on camera?
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How were the lightsaber effects done in Star Wars?
According to Wookieepedia, the the props are made of wood.
Also, due to the brittleness of the stunt blades used during this fight, which were little more than wooden dowels, Diamond was forced to ...
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Why did George Lucas set Star Wars in the past instead of the future?
I always found it interesting that Star Wars is set in the distant past instead of the (more obvious) future.
Has George Lucas ever commented why he chose to do that?
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Was ST:VOY watered down?
The premise of ST:VOY seems like it would introduce a whole new ethos and a whole new way of doing things for Star Trek. During the same time, you had DS9 being set mostly on a station hanging out at ...
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What are the machines in the Matrix doing?
In The Matrix, the machines won the war against humans. They have incredibly efficient production and lots of energy. What are they doing in the meantime? What purpose do these machines have?
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Was Star Wars changed because of a car crash?
I recently heard a story that Mark Hamill was in a serious car accident between the filming of Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and the resulting surgery, causing visible ...
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Did The Force Awakens use any screen wipes to transition from scene to scene?
When Episode VII was announced, I remember hearing fans wonder whether Abrams would use to the screen wipes to transition from scene to scene the way other Star Wars films did.
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During the production and screenwriting of Empire Strikes Back, was it Leia who was planned to be "The Other"?
In Empire Strikes Back, Yoda says to the spirit of Obi-Wan:
Obi-Wan: "that boy is our last hope"
Yoda: "There is another"
And in Return of the Jedi, they reveal that he was talking about Leia. ...
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Why was the colour of Luke's lightsaber changed from blue to green between the trailer and the release of Return of the Jedi?
This answer showed me something I didn't know: that Luke's lightsaber was blue in the first trailer for Return of the Jedi.
As we know, Luke used a green lightsaber ...
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Who played the Airperson who was verbally shoved aside by McKay in "The Intruder"?
Who portrays the delightful Airperson to whom McKay barks "Airperson, don't be there!" around midway through Stargate: Atlantis's excellent second-season episode [S02E02], "The Intruder"?
As she is a ...
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