20 Things You Didn't Know About Zodiac

6. The Curious Star Wars Connection

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Zodiac and Star Wars couldn't be more polar opposite movies where style and tone are concerned, yet there is a curious and unexpected link between the two.

Mark Ruffalo of course plays Inspector Dave Toschi, and in a 1993 interview with Empire, Lucas confessed that he was obsessed with the Zodiac case as a youngster, and sympathised massively with Toschi for catching most of the flak for the SFPD's failure to capture Zodiac.

And so in tribute, Lucas named Star Wars' famed "Tosche Station" - where Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) was planning to go and pick up some power converters - after Toschi. That's quite the immortalisation.

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