5. On-area location shooting was a catastrophe
Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home planet, was initially expected to be a jungle. However, Lucas transformed it to a desert planet after a location scout in the Philippines chafed his skin. That might’ve been a mix-up. While Tatooine’s twin suns setting over the ridges is a standout amongst the most famous pictures in a franchise brimming with them, Tunisia isn’t the most hospitable location for filmmaking, and the production promptly fell behind.
Supposedly, the sand didn’t blend well with the cameras, harming loads of costly gear. Windstorms attacked the sets, which were foreign made from England. R2-D2’s controls didn’t work well, either, as the sand meddled with the remote’s radio signs. Purportedly, the team spent a whole day getting a single shot of the droid moving a few feet.
And after that there was the climate. On the second day of shooting, a huge rainstorm made a recording for all intents and purposes unimaginable.
Unexpectedly, a freak storm hit the Star Wars sets again when Lucas come back to Tunisia to film the prequel trilogy. This time, a huge crew and the Tunisian military helped to clear up things.
6. No one considered Star Wars important
For George Lucas, Star Wars was a work of affection. It wasn’t the same for others. The British crew at Elstree Studios, the production designer John Barry who assembled the monstrous sets that brought Tatooine, the Death Star, and the Millennium Falcon to life, suspected that the film was ludicrous. Besides Alan Ladd, none of the Fox executives comprehended what to make of the venture. A large portion of the cast individuals believed that the film would bomb.
Furthermore, the actors had an especially troublesome time. Not only were they doing the greater part of their work before blue screens, utilizing weapons that didn’t work and interacting with objects they couldn’t see, but also, Lucas gave them limited directions, which was more baffling.
