Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)

An adventure on a world beyond the stars.

The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.

Date of release
1985-11-24
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (376)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Adventure, Family, TV Movie, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Director
Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat
Collection
Star Wars: The Ewok Adventures Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor is a 1985 American television film set in the Star Wars universe. It was written and directed by Ken and Jim Wheat from a story by George Lucas. A sequel to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, it focuses on Cindel Towani, the human girl from the first film, who, after being orphaned, joins the Ewoks in protecting their village and defeating the marauders who have taken control of the Endor moon. The film premiered on ABC on November 24, 1985.

Production

The film, shot in the middle of 1985 in Marin County, California, was directed by Ken and Jim Wheat, executive produced by Lucas, and written by the Wheat brothers, based on a story written by Lucas. Co-director Ken Wheat explained the production and inspiration of the film:

Lucas guided the creation of the story over the course of two four-hour sessions we had with him. He'd just watched Heidi with his daughter the weekend before these took place, and 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.

We'd been thinking about the adventure films we'd liked as kids, like Swiss Family Robinson and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, so we suggested having space marauders, which was fine with George — as long as they were 7 feet tall, of course! The rest of the brainstorming was done along those lines.

Lucas' involvement during production was primarily in the design and editing stages, according to Wheat. The film's working title was Ewoks II.

Wilford Brimley did not get along with the Wheats, so his scenes were directed by Johnston.

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