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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day that filming began on a little film by then 31-year-old director George Lucas known as “Star Wars”.
To celebate the occasion, the official StarWars.com site has posted a lengthy article retrospective going into the assorted difficulties faced by the production.
The third film for Lucas following the failure of “THX 1138” and the smash hit “American Graffiti,” the shoot began in the middle of a salt flat on the edge of the Saharan Desert in Tunisia.
The first scene shot was of the Lars homestead and the Jawas bargaining with Uncle Owen and young Luke Skywalker over droids for sale.
The piece goes into the assorted problems from the brutal heat and unexpected rain of the desert shoot to struggles with the droids and the capturing of the sunset to portray the twin suns of Tatooine.
Once the desert scenes wrapped, filming on the $11 million feature would move to the production’s home base at England’s EMI Elstree Studios. Upon release, the film famously changed the face of movies, launching a blockbuster empire still beloved and argued about to this day.
Head over to StarWars.com to read the piece.
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