10 Facts Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Star Wars

6. Coruscant Was First In The Phantom Menace

The Misconception: For all the strange additions made to the series' mythology (Jedi wear the same robes as Tatooine farmers, meaning Obi-Wan wasn't hiding that smartly), the prequels did bring some interesting elements. Take Coruscant, the capital of the Republic and home of the Senate. A planet-wide city, it's like L.A. circa 2019 from Blade Runner mixed with Neo-Tokyo also circa 2019 from Akira and provides the backdrop for much of the trilogy's action, starting with The Phantom Menace.

The Truth: Well, for starters, The Phantom Menace wasn't the first time cinema-goers visited the planet; Coruscant first appeared on screen in the Special Edition of Return Of The Jedi during the galaxy wide celebrations before being more prominent in the Prequels. But it had existed long before it was put on film. The notion of a city planet was in some of Lucas' earliest drafts for The Star Wars and kept coming back as the potential homeworld of the Emperor.

The first appearance of Coruscant proper came in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, a landmark Expanded Universe story from the early-nineties, where the New Republic was seen setting up a home on the former-Imperial capital. Other elements brought across from the Expanded Universe into the movies include Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura in Episode II and III and Dash Rendar's Outrider leaving Mos Eisley in A New Hope's Special Edition.