Part one of my retrospective/review of the timeless classic, Star Wars(1977) starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, and James Earl Jones. Directed by George Lucas. Song in the intro is a hard rock cover of the Star Wars theme by you tuber Sylvian LeCroix. Trivia William Katt auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker. Alec Guinness always recalled the experience of making the movie as a bad one, and consistently claimed that it was his idea to have his character killed in the first film, so he "wouldn't have to carry on saying these rubbish lines". Contrary to this, George Lucas has said he made the decision to kill off Kenobi, that Guinness was "less than happy" his character was dying earlier than expected, and that Guinness appeared to enjoy his time on set. Some unused footage shot for the film was used in The Star Wars Holiday Special. Following principal photography, new! scenes had to be filmed for the Cantina scene, to give it more diversity and add more aliens to the scene. However, the reshoot set was very small. If you look at the close-up scenes of most of the aliens when Luke and company enter, you can see the same window in the background. George Lucas planned to score the film with existing classical music like Stanley Kubrick had done on 2001: A Space Odyssey before Steven Spielberg introduced him to composer John Williams. Lucas and Williams agreed on a
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