Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) on Netflix
NR19851h 40mAdventureFamilyFantasy
On the forest moon of Endor, the Towani family is repairing its star cruiser. Marauders under King Terak and the witch Charal overrun the Ewok village. Cindel flees with the Ewok Wicket.
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Plot summary
The Towani family is preparing to leave the forest moon of Endor, with their star cruiser almost repaired. Marauders led by King Terak and the witch Charal then storm the Ewok village, carry off many Ewoks and take a power cell from the cruiser. Cindel's parents and her brother Mace die in the raid. Cindel escapes with the Ewok Wicket and meets Teek, a quick, small native of Endor, who brings the two of them to the house of a castaway named Noa Briqualon. Noa sends them away.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
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- Lucas guided the creation of the story over two four-hour sessions, and he had just watched Heidi with his daughter the weekend before; the story idea he pushed was having the little girl from the first Ewok TV movie become an orphan who ends up living with a grumpy old hermit in the woods.
- The Ewok movies let Industrial Light & Magic hone a new technique for photographing matte paintings, latent image matte painting: a section of the camera's lens was blocked off during live action, a painting crafted to occupy that space and photographed onto the same film, so there was no generational quality loss.
- Wilford Brimley did not get along with the Wheats, so his scenes were directed by Johnston instead; Lucas's involvement during production was primarily in the design and editing stages, and the film's working title was Ewoks II.
- Prior to 2021, Disney announced no plans to add the Ewok films to Disney+, which prompted Eric Walker to start a petition for Disney to add them; in March 2021 it was announced that both films would begin streaming on April 2, 2021.
- The budgets of the Ewok films were such that go motion was simply too expensive, so stop motion was used instead to realize creatures such as the condor dragon, the blurrgs and the boar-wolves.
- At the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and the CBS documentary Dinosaur! were both juried-awarded Emmys for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.
