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Here's The Last Jedi's Millennium Falcon dice backstory

Photo credit: Getty Images / Disney
Photo credit: Getty Images / Disney

From Digital Spy

You may have noticed that in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker hands his sister Leia a pair of gold dice, which were originally hanging in the Millennium Falcon.

Well, the golden dice date all the way back to A New Hope, when they were added by set director Roger Christian.

In his autobiography, Cinema Alchemist: Designing Star Wars and Alien, Christian explained that the dice were an homage to Harrison Ford and George Lucas' American Graffiti, and symbolised Han being "of reckless chance and a gambler".

Photo credit: Lucasfilm
Photo credit: Lucasfilm

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The dice make further appearances in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, still placed in the Millennium Falcon – with Chewie even hitting his head on them.

How did they come into Han Solo's possession, though? Lucasfilm Story Group's creative executive Pablo Hidalgo has a theory...

He told Vanity Fair: "The story that you would hear if you travelled to cantinas or watering holes around the Star Wars galaxy, is that those dice were involved in a game of Corellian Spike – a dice-using version of a card game called sabacc.

Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox

"Rumour has it Han won the Millennium Falcon [from Lando Calrissian] with those dice. Whether or not that's just bar talk, I can't say," he added.

However, in young adult novel Smuggler's Run it's suggested that the dice were put in the Falcon by Chewie, in the same way teenagers hang fluffy dice in their hatchbacks.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is in cinemas now.


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