Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 10 Design Secrets You Probably Didn't Know

8. Only A Handful Of Starkiller Base Corridors Were Built

Although in 1977 it looked like nothing anyone had ever seen before, Star Wars wasn’t actually a massively budgeted movie; for reference, it only cost $11 million ($45 million adjusted for inflation), a fifth of Superman: The Movie’s budget a year later. To keep things in check (something that proved very difficult with the location shooting and visual effects), a whole host of money-saving film-making tricks were use, most notably only constructing a handful of Death Star corridors and just shooting it repeatedly from different angles.

Despite having a budget upwards of $250 million ($62 million by 1977 standards), The Force Awakens’ production was also dominated by cost-cutting measures, including repeating the same trick from the original. Only three or four corridors of Starkiller Base were constructed, with just enough variation to create the feeling of a massive, planet-sized base.

Wow, I guess it really is just a Death Star copy!