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• Originally Jorge Garcia was attached to play Harry Knowles, but scheduling conflicts with "Lost" (2004) caused him to turn down the role. Then, Kevin Smith stepped in and was reportedly very enthusiastic, but some last-minute editing for Clerks II (2006) forced him to step down.
  
  
• The scene with the "Star Trek" (1966) fans in full costume dedicating the Captain William T. Kirk birthplace statue as they confront the Star Wars fans was shot on location in the Town Square Park Plaza of Las Vegas, NEVADA. You can see the historic Plaza Hotel in the background in certain shots.
  
  
• The passenger side door of the van has the word "fanboys" written on it in the ‘Star Wars’ Aurebesh alphabet and mirrored.
  
  

• An early promotional poster of this movie said "Coming To Our Galaxy in 2007". It was never released that year.
  
  
• The movement that opposed Harvey Weinstein's cut of the movie was called the Stop Darth Weinstein campaign
  
  

• SPOILER: In the original plot, Linus was battling cancer and wouldn't live long enough to see the new Star Wars-movie in its theatrical release and therefore the friends want to get a copy of it. Producer Harvey Weinstein opposed this version and re-cut the original removing all references to cancer. Fans were so enraged about this, that they threatened to boycott Superhero Movie (2008), another Weinstein Co. project.
  
  

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