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George Lucas On Why Yoda Spoke Backwards In ‘Empire Strikes Back’: “To Get People To Actually Listen”
George Lucas the TCM Classic Film Festival opening night talked about why Yoda talked backwards in 'The Empire Strikes Back'
George Lucas attends the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival opening night screening of 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 24, 2025 in Hollywood, California.Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM There are many questions that Star Wars fans have about the George Lucas produced and co-written 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back which kicked off the 16th TCM Class Film Festival last night at the TCL Chinese Theatre with 45th anniversary showing. TCM host Ben Mankiewicz tried to ask other Empire Strikes Back questions over 30 minutes, however, Lucas yearned to regale the crowd with his beginnings with Francis Ford Coppola (who he’s co-bestowing the AFI Lifetime Achievement award to with Steven Spielberg), beating the studio odds with American Graffiti and connecting with Alan Ladd to get Star Wars off the ground. Disney is re-releasing Lucas’ Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith this weekend in celebration of its 20th anniversary and the movie is expected to do another $20M at the box office, getting the 2005 Episode III to the $400M domestic mark.
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