With the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi barely a month away and anticipation of the movie at a fever pitch, the speculation about just what the movie contains has reached an all-time high as well. Rumors are circulating rapidly about the film, its plot and the fate and/or identity of its major characters, and if anything we know even less about this movie than we did about its ultra-secretive predecessor, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Some of the speculation that's out there may prove to be true, while no doubt a lot of it will turn out to be just the rampant musings of many fans' overheated imaginations. But although we now live in an age of instantaneous communication -- which can also mean instantaneous false information -- wild rumors about upcoming movies are nothing new. In fact, if we go back nearly 40 years, some of the craziest speculation back then centered around -- you guessed it -- a Star Wars movie.

Here then are 13 of the craziest movie rumors of the past four decades -- ideas that, no matter how strange they seemed, somehow got around and were believed by untold numbers of info-starved fans. Tell us below if you remember hearing any of these, if there's one you came across and would like to share, and if you think any of the films might have been actually enhanced if the rumor was true...