George Lucas' STAR WARS nightmares

I was a tremendous Star Wars geek for years and years, back before George Lucas beat most of the fandom out of me with Jar-Jar, Hayden's speech about how Natalie Portman is nothing like sand, and all of the other unspeakably lame Star Wars prequel crap of the last decade. (Just think; 2009 marks 10 full years of Star Wars stinking like Bantha "poodoo." Congrats, George!)

Growing up, I poured over every Star Wars making-of book and video I could find. But while I've probably spent a solid month of my life watching stuff about the making of Star Wars, but somehow this article was full of things that were new to me. I knew Lucas had taken a huge risk by making the first film, but I'd never known just how troubled the production was, with a shoot that began with the first Tunisian rainstorm in 50 years and ended with the leading man being disfigured in a car crash.

(Via Io9.)


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