George Lucas allowed a short scene for Episode III to be shot in the Tunisian desert during the production of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), to avoid the inconvenience of having to fly the team back out and shoot the scene three years later. It is widely rumored to be the so-called "Harry Potter" scene, in which Obi-Wan Kenobi delivers the infant Luke Skywalker to his aunt and uncle.
The final duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin marks the first (and only) time in a Star Wars movie, that two characters fight each other using the same color lightsaber.
A process of applying chrome to rubber was developed during production, allowing lightsaber hilts to be made of rubber and used in stunts without hurting the actors.
The "TIE" in TIE Fighter is an acronym. It stands for "Twin Ion Engines".
According to an interview with George Lucas, originally Luke was a girl, Han Solo was an Alien, the wookiees were called Jawas, and R2-D2 and C-3PO were called A-2 and C-3.
Luke went through several changes. He started out as a woman, then he was a dwarf, then he was a 60 year-old general then his name was changed from Luke Starkiller to Luke Skywalker.
7 foot 2 Peter Mayhew got the role of Chewbacca 10 seconds after he met George Lucas. All he did was stand up
During the scene on the Death Star right after Ben leaves to shut down the tractor beam, Chewbacca barks something to Luke to which Han says "Boy, you said it Chewie". Backstage footage reveals that what Chewie says is "The old man's gone mad".
Darth Vader was the first character that George Lucas created for the story.
The shot where the escape pod leaves Leia's ship was the first ever done by ILM.
The Tatooine scenes were filmed in Tunisia. There is a town in Tunisia called "Tatahouine". Some of the interiors of Luke's house were filmed in a hotel in Tunisia, but the exterior is an actual home in the village of Matmata, where caves and craters have been inhabited for a long time.
The Millennium Falcon was originally modeled after a hamburger with an olive next to it.
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