During the 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, George Lucas showed ...

Yoda is one of the most cherished extraterrestrial characters in movie history, and part of that has to do with the peculiar way in which he speaks. “The greatest teacher, failure is,” “Much ...

Meanwhile, The Empire Strikes Back is celebrating 45 years, which gave Lucas an opportunity to give a frank answer to a classic Star Wars question: Why doesn’t Yoda put the words in the right ...

Yoda’s well-known for his odd speech pattern (Picture: Lucasfilm/Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock) Speak rather strangely, our favourite Star Wars character, Yoda, does ...

“Because if you speak regular English, people won’t listen that much,” Lucas said in response to a question from moderator Ben Mankiewicz. “But if he had an accent, or it’s really hard ...

George Lucas, the legendary filmmaker and best known for helming Star Wars, recently attended the opening night screening of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, in Hollywood, California.

George Lucas has revealed why popular character Yoda speaks backwards in the Star Wars universe. The Jedi master first appeared in the 1980s The Empire Strikes Back, and has gone on to become a ...

According to Variety, when asked about Yoda’s backwards speech pattern during the anniversary screening, Lucas provided a simple explanation: “Because if you speak regular English, people won ...

The Jedi master first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back and has become legendary for his back-to-front phrases such as: “The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is ...

Mankiewicz concluded by lobbing Lucas a softball about which of the two new characters in “Empire,” cuddly Jedi master Yoda or charismatic swindler Lando Calrissian, was his favorite.

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