Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked on March 17, 2021
In A New Hope, the number of the docking bay used to hold the Millenium Falcon is 327. In The Empire Strikes Back, the number of the Cloud City landing platform used is also 327. In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Palpatine are captured in hallway 328. (It’s the prequels, so everything has to be different, right?) And this one’s a little shaky, but the last four digits of the trash compactor in A New Hope are 3827. Yep, 3_27.
So is there an actual reason that the number 327 appears multiple times in the Star Wars series, or could this just be subtle cross-episode allusion?
327 is mentioned a lot in Star Wars, so there is obvious some significance.
As well as the Docking Bay on the Death Star and the Landing Platform on cloud city that you have mentioned, there is also the following mentioned in Canon:
It also had many further mentions in Legends materials.
The number makes an appearance in Lucas' earlier film American Graffiti where the '32 Deuce Coupe had a Chevy 327 engine, this car also had the number plate THX 138 - (a reference to the even earlier Lucas film THX 1138
I cannot remember nor find any mentions of 327 in THX-1138 nor in any Lucas related films after Star Wars (Indiana Jones, Willow etc)
So it appears to be something brought into Star Wars & kept within that universe, unlike THX-1138 which has appeared through most of his works.
It is possible that this is a nod to the film American Graffiti, whose commercial success gave George Lucas chance to develop LucasFilm, Skywalker Sound, and Industrial Light & Magic which were all crucial in allowing Star Wars to be made.
As an aside the hatch number for the trash compactor 326-3827 is widely reported to have been Mark Hamill's phone number. This has a symmetry with THX 1138 which (using the keypad map of T=8, H=4, X=9) was 849-1138, George Lucas' telephone whilst at college.
Correct answer by Cearon O'Flynn on March 17, 2021
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