When was empire strikes back made

But as in the film, you never see that mission play out, since Han is busy running from the Empire and romancing Leia. Lando is still a sweet talker, but infinitely more lonely.

Here, Lando is one of the last of a long-forgotten batch of clones left over from the Clone Wars. It gave us a sense of oneness, of belonging. Now, when every face is new and different, I feel truly alone. Lando has been taken in by the leader of the Cloud People, Chief Bahiri, who considers him a son. As if he were in Camelot at the end of a great adventure, Luke salutes the retreating ship with his lightsaber, the blade pointed towards the stars.

Perhaps more of her pulpy sensibility would have shone through on screen. But when she brought Lucas the draft in early , he was underwhelmed. She was sick at the time she wrote the script, and she really tried her best.

In pages, the writer gives us grand adventure, exotic planets, and colorful characters. It would have been the only potential mention of God in the saga. The draft also mentions sharks! Empire in red and Rebels in green. Marekal is the leader of the Transport Guild.

Han agrees to go on the mission. Several love scenes between the three of them. Ben does not appear as a Force ghost at all to tell Luke to go to Dagobah. Vader finds the Rebel base by interrogating a trader, instead of through the probe droid from The Empire Strikes Back. Imperials attack the base while the Rebels are also repelling the ice monsters. The monsters have broken overhead water pipes that instantly freeze many Rebels.

Same setup as The Empire Strikes Back. Unclear if Sedge is actually Wedge Antilles. Sedge dies before he can take off. R2 manages to use the lightsaber crystal with coordinates to send the ship to hyperspace. Han is able to maneuver Falcon through asteroids, shaking the Imperials off their tail, and he hides the ship in an asteroid cave. No Exogorth in asteroid…. In several instances, Chewbacca and Threepio watch and comment on the love scenes.

One memorable exchange of dialogue was partially ad-libbed. After several takes, the director told the actor to improvise on the spot, and Ford changed Solo's line to "I know. During production, great secrecy surrounded the fact that Darth Vader was Luke's father.

The film includes a brief image of Vader with his mask off, facing away from the camera. For the original viewers of the film, this scene made it clear that Vader is not a droid. Until the film premiered, only Lucas, Kershner, Hamill, and James Earl Jones knew what would really be said; Jones' initial reaction to the line was, "He's lying!

To preserve the dramatic opening sequences of his films, Lucas wanted the screen credits to come at the end of the films. Even though this is more common now, this was a highly unusual choice at the time. The Writers and Directors Guilds had no problem allowing it on Star Wars , back in , because the writer-director credit George Lucas matched the company name, but when Lucas did the same thing for the sequel it became an issue because Lucas had his last name on the start of the film Lucasfilm , while the director and the writers had theirs on the end.

Lucas made a deal with the studio to secure the loan in exchange for paying the studio more money, but without the loss of his sequel and merchandising rights. After the film's box office success, unhappiness at the studio over the deal's generosity to Lucas caused studio president Alan Ladd, Jr.

The film had a Royal Premiere in London three days later, and a series of other charity benefit premieres were held in numerous locations on May 19 and The film went on to official general release in North America and the U. The first wave of release included 70 mm prints, before a wider release in June which were mostly 35 mm prints. Lucas took this opportunity to make several minor changes to the film. These included explicitly showing the Wampa creature on Hoth in full form, creating a more complex flight path for the Falcon as it approaches Cloud City, digitally replacing some of the interior walls of Cloud City with vistas of Bespin, and replacing certain lines of dialogue.

A short sequence was also added depicting Vader's return to his Super Star Destroyer after dueling with Luke, created from alternate angles of a scene from Return of the Jedi. Most of the changes were small and aesthetic; however, some fans believe that they detract from the film. The films were digitally restored and remastered, with additional changes made by George Lucas. Also included are featurettes, teasers, trailers, TV spots, still galleries, video game demos, and a preview of Revenge of the Sith.

For the DVD release, Lucas and his team made changes that were mostly implemented to ensure continuity between The Empire Strikes Back and the recently released prequel trilogy films. The most noticeable of these changes was replacing the stand-in used in the holographic image of the Emperor with Clive Revill providing the voice with actor Ian McDiarmid providing some slightly altered dialogue. With this release, Lucas also supervised the creation of a high-definition digital print of The Empire Strikes Back and the original trilogy's other films.

It was reissued in December as part of a three-disc "limited edition" boxed set that did not feature the bonus disc. The film was reissued again on a separate two-disc Limited Edition DVD for a brief time from September 12, , to December 31, , this time with the film's original, unaltered version as bonus material.

It was also re-released in a trilogy box set on November 4, Since non-anamorphic transfers fail to make full use of the resolution available on widescreen televisions, many fans were disappointed with this choice. The Empire Strikes Back premiered at a limited number of theaters, and those all in large metropolitan areas because it was first released only on 70 mm wide film, for which only the largest and most prosperous film theaters had projectors.

It was many weeks later that the film was published on standard 35 mm film for other film theaters in North America and around the world.

The Empire Strikes Back received mixed reviews from critics upon its initial release. However, by the turn of the s and up to now, fans and critics alike now widely consider The Empire Strikes Back to be the franchise's best film. Some critics had problems with the story of The Empire Strikes Back , but they admitted that the film was a great technological achievement in filmmaking. Chuck Klosterman suggested that while "movies like Easy Rider and Saturday Night Fever painted living portraits for generations they represented in the present tense, The Empire Strikes Back might be the only example of a movie that set the social aesthetic for a generation coming in the future.

Williams' film score also received the Grammy Award and the Golden Globe Award for best original soundtrack. Darth Vader was ranked as the third-greatest film villain of all time in the American Film Institute 's list of the greatest heroes and villains , [43] and Wizard magazine selected the ending of The Empire Strikes Back as the greatest cliffhanger of all time. Do , or do not, there is no try," was also a nominee for the same list by the AFI.

The film was selected in to be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry. American Film Institute lists.

Its front cover artwork features the mask of Darth Vader against a backdrop of outer space. Polydor Records used a shorter, one compact-disc edition of the music as their master. This anthology included the film scores of all three members of the original Star Wars Trilogy in separate CDs, even though there was significant overlap between the three such as the Star Wars theme music.

This original limited-edition set of CDs featured a page black booklet that was enclosed within a protective outer slip-case. The covers of the booklet and of the slip-case have selections from the poster art of the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition. All of the tracks have been digitally re-mastered supposedly for superior clarity of sound. RCA Victor next re-packaged the Special Edition set later on in , offering it in slim-line jewel case packaging as an unlimited edition, but without the packaging that the original "black booklet" version offered.

In , the Sony Classical Records company purchased the sales rights of the original trilogy's musical scores—primarily because it already had the sales rights of the music from the trilogy of prequels: The Phantom Menace , Attack of the Clones , and Revenge of the Sith. This set was made with new cover artwork similar to that of the film's first publication on DVD.

A novelization of the film was released on April 12, , and published by the company Del Rey Books. The novelization was written by Donald F. Like the other novelizations of the Star Wars Trilogy , background information is added to explain the happenings of the story beyond that which is depicted on-screen.

This comic book was published to accompany the premiere of The Empire Strikes Back in It was published simultaneously in three forms: as a magazine, as a serialized comic book, and as a pocket book paper-backed book.

In the paperback version, which was published first and for which early concept designs were the only available art reference, Yoda was given a quite different appearance than in the films: Yoda is thinner, he has long white hair, and he has purple skin, rather than green skin. For the magazine and serialized comic book editions, there was enough time for the artwork featuring Yoda to be revised extensively, and he was therefore made to look like the way he appeared on film.

Lucasfilm adapted the story for a children's book-and-record set. Each page of the book contained a cropped frame from the film with an abridged and condensed version of the story. The record was produced by Buena Vista Records. Video games based on the film have been released on several consoles. Additionally, several Star Wars video games feature or mention key events seen in the film, but are not entirely based upon the film.

The game features familiar battle sequences and characters played from a first-person perspective. Specific battles include the Battle of Hoth and the subsequent escape of the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field. In , Ubisoft released a version for the Game Boy. Like its previous incarnation, it follows the story of Luke Skywalker. It was based on characters and situations created by George Lucas, and on the screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. Its director was John Madden, with sound mixing and post-production work done by Tom Voegeli.

Much of John Williams' film score is included, in addition to the sound design from Ben Burtt. The actor John Lithgow presented Yoda's voice.

This radio play was designed to last for five hours of radio time, usually presented in more than one part. Arnold, Alan. Sphere Books , London. ISBN Lucasfilm Wiki Explore. Lucasfilm Products. The original Jedi training montage had two different lightsaber practice scenes, as shown in storyboards by Ivor Beddoes and left in the shooting script until July 23, , when it was decided to cut them.

First, Luke would fail, but later succeed in cutting the bar into several pieces. You might know that some of the sounds of blaster fire were made from the twangs of metal guy wires, as recorded by Ben Burtt, but do you know where the Imperial walkers get their distinctive mechanical marching sound? The mechanical sounds of AT-AT marching were captured by giant sheets of metal being cut apart and stamped at two metal-working sites in Oakland, California.

Randy went out and recorded some of those big metallic stamping machines. Then I picked out parts of the recording I liked and made it into a rhythmic walk cycle. In addition, I needed squeaking sounds, like a knee joint. That I achieved by playing with a dumpster lid, which had been dropped off in front of my house. Later, Vader comes to Hoth and when stormtroopers kills Bahiri, Lando decides to switch sides and join the heroes.

When Luke and the Millennium Falcon flee the cloud world, the rebels find sanctuary on Bespin Kaalida, a jewel-like planet. The second draft screenplay, written by George Lucas, changed the ice planet to Hoth, the cloud planet to Bespin, Lando Kadar to Lando Calrissian, and cut the Bahiri subplot. Fans who collected the original action figures might recall that Kenner swapped the names Zuckuss and 4-LOM for the toys made in , but Zuckuss almost had another name as well — Tuckuss.

His name on the call sheets for the film shoot?