Did…did they really just name a planet of squid people “Mon Calamari”? Calamari, as in squid you eat?
the species was literally named after someone’s lunch
#and the millenium falcon was modeled after a hamburger with a bite taken out of it#originally it was gonna be some long skinny thing like the tantive iv
I don’t know what to do with all this information, but I will treasure it
This reminds me of one of my favorite George Lucas stories, told by Liam Neeson in a prequel-era interview. He was looking over the list of names for background characters which Lucas had drawn up and asked where “Orn Free Ta,” a name he thought was particularly evocative, came from. (He was the Twi’lek senator in episode I.) Lucas answered, “Corn Fritter.”
Neeson’s response was “Corn Fritter, wow, that’s deep.”