Fanboys love nothing more than to bitch and moan when some nitpicky detail of a novel they love doesn't make it into the final cut of the movie. But the thing is, sometimes those changes happen for the right reasons.
Almost every successful person working in Hollywood sticks to his or her thing that they like. But sometimes these folks, with their well-defined comfort zones, lend a hand to movies so bizarrely out-of-character for them it's like they only did it to say, 'There, I can do other stuff too. Happy?'
Spoiler alert: Assholes produced your favorite movie moments ever -- and some of them did that while putting their cast and crew through relentless horror.
It's pretty much one guy. His movies are on the way to grossing a billion dollars, but the man himself died broke, not having lived to see any of them.
Since the day the first Star Wars movie was released, fans have been donning bathrobes and making lightsaber noises with their mouths while swinging broom-handles around their kitchens. it turns out that science is no exception to fandom: They've been working 'round the clock to bring Star Wars tech to life, and they're actually succeeding
