Harrison Ford Demanded Milllennium Falcon Upgrade in The Force Awakens

Today Star Wars is a huge, very well-known and highly profitable franchise. The beginnings of the series however, did not indicate that it would grow to such proportions and bring its creator great recognition and equally great earnings. Although the team behind the latest trilogy, which has a huge budget, certainly did not have to be particularly concerned about spending, the situation was quite different with the first movie. That George Lucas once had to carefully count the dollars he spent is evidenced by the statement of Harrison Ford, coming from thedocumentary titled Secrets Of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey.

The video showing behind the scenes of the making of The Force Awakens reveals that Han Solo's actor met with a production designer working on creating the Millennium Falcon for the movie, which saw Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Ford return to the Star Wars universe. Many years after the release of the original trilogy the actor got the chance to request changes to the ship piloted by his character. What Ford demanded may come as a surprise.

As it turned out, the decision to use switches without springs was financially driven, Harrison Ford recounted:

Well, today it's hard to believe that in the creation of the 1977 movie, savings led to abandoning springs, but that was the reality of creating an iconic show. If you want to relive the excitement of screening Star Wars movies, reach for Disney+. On the platform you will find movie and TV shows set in the Star Wars universe.

Pamela Jakiel

Pamela Jakiel

Finished film studies, graduate of the Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Her master's thesis was about new spirituality in contemporary cinema. The editor of the Filmomaniak service since April 2023, supports the lead editor and the boss of all newspeople. She used to write for naEkranie. If she's not watching The Ninth Gate for the hundredth time, then she's reading books by Therese Bohman and Donna Tartt for the first time. She prefers gnosis over dread, dramas over horrors, Jung over Freud. She looks for symbolist paintings in museums. Runs long distances, and does even the longer ones on a gravel. Loves dachshunds.