Official Star Wars Details That Weren't Created By George Lucas
There's dozens of things in Star Wars that didn't come from George Lucas (or Mickey Mouse), but from the books, comics, and games of the old Extended Universe.
Read MoreYou're lost. Like the missing section of the Nixon tapes, this page has vanished from history, but maybe you were looking for one of these:
There's dozens of things in Star Wars that didn't come from George Lucas (or Mickey Mouse), but from the books, comics, and games of the old Extended Universe.
Read MoreBefore settling on Star Wars as we know it, George Lucas went through a lot of false starts, drafts, and terrible ideas.
Read MoreSome scientists and engineers aren't content on Star Wars stuff staying fictional, and have worked to create tech that resembles what we see in the movies.
Read MoreGeorge Lucas's cross-pollinated success with Star Wars has wielded a plethora of tacky tie-ins and oddball officially licensed products.
Read MoreOn November 1, 2022, Takeoff was shot dead at a bowling alley in Houston, Texas. Here are the details that were released in the coroner's report.
Read MoreSome of the Star Wars saga's flaws are certainly hard to overlook (hi, Jar-Jar!), but others weren't quite as bad as we made them out to be.
Read MoreRapper Coolio's family has been informed of the star's cause of death. Born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., Coolio died in September 2022.
Read MoreJames Dean died in a horrific car crash while driving his Porsche 550 Spyder in 1955.
Read MoreThe Star Wars franchise is unlike anything else in pop culture history. While you can't deny just how massive Star Wars has been, it's not all sunshine and Ewoks. Star Wars has had plenty of negative effects on people. Here are lives destroyed by Star Wars.
Read More"May the fourth be with you" is a common saying when May 4 comes around on the calendar. However, the origins of this phrase are rooted in a political victory.
Read MoreOn July 20, 2017, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington died by suicide. His autopsy report revealed some tragic details about his final hours.
Read MoreThe crowd crush at the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy led to the deaths of 10 people and injured thousands more. Here's what the police report said.
Read MoreOne of the most popular franchises ever, "Star Wars" gave us many lovable characters that endured for decades. Sadly, not all of them are with us anymore.
Read MoreSad details revealed in Raquel Welch's death certificate reveal she had a devastating disease that was not made public.
Read MoreChristine McVie died in November 2022 at the age of 79 after a "short illness," according to a statement released at that time from her family.
Read MoreSo many unfathomable difficulties occurred during the filming of the Star Wars movies, you would think they had some kind of curse placed on them.
Read MoreFans of Star Wars have been trying to undo Lucas' litany of changes to the first three movies for decades. Some have even succeeded...
Read More"Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke" was released on February 27, 2025, and though most of the information is not new, there were a few revelations.
Read MoreIn 2021, a young woman disappeared while on a cross country trip with her boyfriend, and new details are revealed in Netflix's American Murder: Gabby Petito.
Read MoreRock fans love their musicians. As with any art, if it evokes emotion, we gravitate toward not only the art but also the person or people who create it.
Read MoreIt would be easy to think all of Star Wars Jedi secrets have been gleaned from that galaxy far, far away. But here are some fake ones that slipped through.
Read MoreThe Boston Irish Gang Wars killed dozens of people in the 1960s, with assassinations, gang shootouts, and car bombs leaving a grim mark on the city's history.
Read MoreHere's why Carl Sagan told Johnny Carson in 1978 that he believes the first Star Wars film (aka A New Hope) may be a racist movie.
Read MoreJeff Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River in 1997 ahead of the release of his second studio album.
Read MoreIf the stars had aligned slightly differently, the muscle-bedecked action star would have portrayed one of most important roles in the franchise. But, in the end, he joined the ranks of other "almost" Star Wars stars, which in turn kept the franchise from becoming something akin to Judge Dredd.
Read MoreJohn Wayne and "Star Wars" aren't typically associated with one another, but the famous Western actor actually made a vocal appearance in "Star Wars."
Read MoreDisturbing details of the death of tourist Elisa Lam are covered in the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.
Read MoreStar Wars is confusing, somehow most hated by the people who most love it. That all came to a head in 2017 with Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi. Episode VIII broke a lot of new ground and was quite a romp of a movie. That made it easy to ignore these dumb things in The Last Jedi.
Read MoreThe "Storage Wars" stars are definitely among the more relatable, everyday sort of people. Here are the stars of Storage Wars before they got famous.
Read MoreWhen Erik Cowie was found dead, facedown in a bedroom in New York on September 3, the cause was unknown but the 53-year-old's death didn't look suspicious.
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