Star Wars almost started a real war
That’s right, in real life the Star Wars film franchise almost started an actual war between Tunisia and Libya, which was under the control of Muammar Gaddafi at the time. The dictator thought that the Tunisians were up to something, by massing a group of people with strange-looking vehicles at his border.
The group of people was the Star Wars film crew and the vehicles that the Libyans were worried about were not military ones, but a Jawa Sandcrawler. The Tunisian government panicked and told the crew to move the production elsewhere so that tensions could be calmed. Imagine if a war really broke out because of a film.