A great deal of Richard Marquand's 1983 film "Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi" takes place on the forest moon of Endor. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), the Wookiee Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), and the droids C3-PO and R2-D2 (Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker) all travel there to disable a shield generator protecting an under-construction Death Star orbiting the moon. If they succeed, their Rebel compatriots will be able to take down the Death Star. It's a tale as old as time.

These forest scenes in "Return of the Jedi" were partly filmed at the Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park in northern California , as well as a private forest near Smith River nearby. The park does indeed look like an alien world, as the trees are so impressi

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