One of the best characters in the Star Wars saga is the grammar-challenged locus of all things Lightside, Yoda ... which is remarkable considering he's a puppet. And in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace, he was a creepy puppet.

We all know James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars (okay, some of us know him as the voice of Mufasa in The Lion King). But he could have easily not won the role. It turns out that George Lucas initially had someone else in mind for the part of Vader: acting/writing/directing mega-talent, Orson Welles.

First, William Shatner declared Star Trek superior to Star Wars and said he'd like to have a lost weekend with Princess Leia. Then Leia herself, Carrie Fisher, fired back, championing Star Wars and accusing Shatner of a secret desire to wear her iconic gold bikini.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have worked in tandem on the last four Indiana Jones films—with Spielberg handling the visuals and Lucas in charge of the script. While that arrangement worked like a charm for the first three archeological adventures, Spielberg admits there were ... problems ... with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.