Star Wars exhibit: look closely, young one

Things were never quite the way they first seemed in the Star Wars universe. Take the Ewoks - cute teddy bears at first glance, vicious little spear chuckers in reality. And what about the Jawas?

This could be the thinking behind the artwork in the Star Wars Identities exhibit, or it could just be some inspired thinking. Whatever, these images are more than they at first appear.

The show will take place from April 19 in Montreal.

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Star Wars: the blueprints

We all marvelled at the world of Star Wars when it first came out, hell I actually though there was a "galaxy far, far, away". But then I was six years old.

Now we can see exactly how much thought and work did go into creating the Star Wars universe with the release of this book of blueprints.

That's my Christmas Day sorted!

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The making of the Empire Strikes Back: Snow all over the place

So it turns out the frozen wastes of Hoth weren't the only place snow was blowing around during the making of The Empire Strikes Back. There were a few drifts of the Colombian variety going up the nose of Carrie Fisher, as she has now admitted.

Not that it did anything to spoil the film, although it might explain her hostility towards Han Solo. And all this time we were thinking it was because she was a bit cold.

And maybe that's what saved them all from that giant lizard thing on the asteroid. It wasn't a phaser blast which made it sneeze.

These shots are from a new behind the scenes book on the making of the film.

Looks like they had as much fun making it as I did watching it.
More pics can be found at Vanityfair.com

The book is available at Amazon