The Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones Scene That Scared George Lucas To Death – /Film

The scene in question happens toward the end of the film, after Obi-Wan and Anakin try to fight Count Dooku and instantly get the crap beaten out of them by the former Jedi, with Anakin even losing a hand in the process. With all hope lost, it is up to 800-year-old Master Yoda to save the day and do some sick acrobatics while doing so.

The moment Yoda ignites his lightsaber and goes all jumping frog on Dooku,where the old Jedi master proved his incredible power in actual combat, was a scene that made fans around the world lose their collective minds. That his adversary was one of the greatest cinema legends of all time, Sir Christopher Lee, was just the icing on the cake.

But while the end result had everyone cheering, the way there included a lot of sleepless nights and stress for George Lucas and his team of visual effects wizards.

"I was scared to death of this sequence and how we were going to pull this off," Lucas said on the film's Blu-ray commentary track (via Business Insider)."This was the biggest risk in the whole movie. Could I make this realistic enough to make it believable, or would it be this ludicrous joke?"

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