the universe of Star Wars It is one of the best known worldwide, with almost 50 years behind it. The wide variety of his films have left us with an infinite number of moments that have remained to be remembered, such as what happened at the time with Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Although numerically it is the fourth film installment, in reality It was the first of all to be released in theaters.. Thanks to it we were able to meet a good handful of characters that have remained in our hearts for several decades, but it also helped us to see iconic ships and vehicles that have been used throughout the franchise and also to see space stations in the shape of weapons of mass destruction, like the Death Star.
All of you who have seen the film will know that in the final battle the group of Rebels goes to that place controlled by the Empire in order to destroy it completely. That leads Luke Skywalker and the rest of the soldiers to sneak into some kind of trench very narrow in which they have to advance in a straight line with their ships, the only path that leads them to some thermal conduits capable of causing a chain reaction that makes everything completely explained when receiving the impact of two proton torpedoes.
For what is striking this whole matter is due to the fact that this was not the idea originally had nor the way in which this event was going to develop. George Lucas’s intention was to cause a real headache for Luke Skywalker by having to fight around the Death Star with his X-Wing. So what caused the change of heart?
It was in 2016 when Colint Cantwelllate concept artist and spacecraft designer for this feature film, participated in a Reddit Q&Awhere he confessed how the whole idea of this iconic and spectacular sequence arose, about which he recognized that everything it was due to a simple mistake:
George Lucas entrusted me with the project of designing a Death Star. Originally, I didn’t plan for it to have a trench, but while he was working on the mold, I noticed that the two halves had been reduced where they met in the middle. It would have taken a week of work to fix. It was then that, in order to save myself the work, I approached George Lucas and suggested building a trench.
Well, it seems that George Lucas himself loved the idea so much who gave it the go-ahead and agreed to have that become the design for the Death Star. The rest is the previously indicated story that undoubtedly made us witness one of the best moments of the entire saga of Star Wars.
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