Star Wars Trilogy - Star Wars Fan Portal. http://www.starwarstrilogy.net 2010-09-08T11:32:21+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2005-09-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=2 Actor Michael Sheard, best known for playing teacher Mr Bronson in long-running children's TV drama Grange Hill in the 1980s, has died aged 65.Sheard gained wider fame as Admiral Ozzel in 1980 Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back. text/html 2005-10-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=2 William Hootkins, who played Jek Porkins in the original Star Wars film, has passed away at age 58. According to What's On Stage (http://www.whatsonstage.com/) : American stage and screen actor William Hootkins - who lived and worked for many years in the UK and was last seen on the London stage in Hitchcock Blonde - has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Diagnosed earlier this year, he died last night (Sunday 23 October 2005) at St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica near his Californian home. He was 58. Born in Dallas, Texas on 5 July 1948, the ebullient Hootkins ? known as Bill... text/html 2006-01-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2 We aim to be a comprehensive resource about everything Star Wars - from the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, to the Sequel Trilogy!We welcome all and any suggestions to improve our site and, of course, your contributions are welcome (nay, encouraged!).Enjoy! The Team text/html 2004-05-12T11:54:06+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=28 As the name Episode I suggests, this is a Prequel trilogy. This means it takes place BEFORE the original Star Wars Trilogy. Some of the characters most of us have grown up with (Han Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker) have yet to be born, while others (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Yoda, Jabba the Hut, R2-D2, C3PO, and Emperor Palatine/Darth Sidious) appear as younger versions of themselves. (Approx. 40 years younger.) Chewbacca (as claimed by some sources to be 200 years old) has yet to appear. text/html 2006-01-21T21:08:56+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=9 Most of the Stormtroopers are left-handed. That is because of how the weapons are constructed. Their weapons are based on a real weapon, where the magazine is on left side of the weapons. This construction caused it to hit the troopers in the chest. Therefore they have to switch grip of the weapon, which made them look left-handed text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=9 Carrie Fisher considered losing weight for the role of Princess Leia, but she and George Lucas decided against it. text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=9 William Katt auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker text/html 2004-05-12T11:54:06+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=28 When Star Wars was first released, it didn't have the "Episode IV" inscribed in the crawl. That was added at least a year after its original release in 1977. text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.starwarstrilogy.net http://www.starwarstrilogy.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=9 The weapons the stormtroopers used were essentially the Sterling L2A3 9mm SMG (sub-machine gun) a military weapon developed in the late 1940s in the UK and adopted by the British and Canadian Armies in the 1950s. The curved left entry side mounted magazine was removed. And that was as much as it was modified for the film