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3. Did You Know: Luke Skywalker might have been a very different character if George Lucas had followed his original plans? Originally, Lucas wanted Luke, Aunt Baru and Uncle Owen to be midgets. Suave, handsome Han Solo might not have been so debonair had Lucas gone with his original instinct to portray Solo as a big green monster with gills and no nose. But, then Lucas decided to make Han Solo African American. He later nixed that idea, and Harrison Ford earned the role. Ford won out over some stiff, well-known competition including Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell and Christopher Walken. Lucas preferred to have a lesser-known actor than one with name recognition. Two decades later he would opt for name recognition when casting Liam Neeson as Qui Gon Jinn in the Phantom Menace and Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu in The Attack of the Clones.

81. Who are the “Lost Twenty?” Answer: The Lost Twenty are the only twenty members of the Jedi Order who have renounced their membership. These former Jedi, and any person who fails their Jedi training, is in danger of being lured to the Dark Side of the Force. Many Jedi were murdered and by the end of the Clone War, there were only a few survivors, among them Yoda and Obi Wan. The two would go on to train Luke Skywalker, who despite being past the age limit, was accepted because the Jedi were desperately needed in this new universe.

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