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* FoilerFootage: Before the movie's premiere, the number of people who knew about TheReveal could be counted on one hand: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz, James Earl Jones, Mark Hamill and whatever editors Lucas trusted to see the scene. Even Creator/DavidProwse, who had to say ''something'' during filming, was given the fake line "Obi-Wan killed your father." {{Urban Legend}}s now abound of Creator/HarrisonFord turning to Hamill ''in the middle of the premiere'' and giving a BigWhat, as well as David Prowse leaning forward and telling George Lucas "Why didn't you tell me? I would have said it."
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* FoilerFootage: Before the movie's premiere, the number of people who knew about TheReveal could be counted on one hand: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz, James Earl Jones, Mark Hamill and whatever editors Lucas trusted to see the scene. Even Creator/DavidProwse, who had to say ''something'' during filming, was given the fake line "Obi-Wan killed your father." {{Urban Legend}}s now abound of Creator/HarrisonFord turning to Hamill ''in the middle of the premiere'' and giving a BigWhat, as well as David Prowse leaning forward and telling George Lucas "Why didn't you tell me? I would have said it." [[https://youtu.be/OsSKFlk8oEo?t=130 Mark Hamill himself recalled that]], when the moment came on screen, Harrison Ford turned to him and said "Hey kid, you didn't [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] tell me that."
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** George Lucas initially did '''not''' want to make a sequel, as the production of the previous had been a "[[TroubledProduction four-year horrific seat-of-the-pants experience]]" that he refused to repeat. Moreover, the unexpected success of ''Star Wars'' was starting to burn Lucas out, and sequels weren't generally well regarded at the time anyways, so Lucas had enough reasons to write it off. However, he eventually accepted because the story of the first film would be left unfinished without any sequels. Lucas still refused to direct it, though, because he would be too busy handling the financing and rebuilding his company Industrial Light & Magic after most of its original crew had left to work in ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica''.
** Back at the time of the first film, Alan Dean Foster, the ghostwriter of novelization, had been commissioned to write a sequel that could be adapted as a low-budget film if ''Star Wars'' was a box-office failure. The result was ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'', considered the first piece of the ''SW'' ExpandedUniverse. The plans to adapt it, however, were ignored with the huge success of the first film.
** Creator/MarkHamill suffered a motorcycle crash in January 1977 that left him facial scars, and Lucas considered making them a WrittenInInfirmity. Also, had Hamill died in the accident, Lucas would have replaced Luke with an entirely new protagonist.
** Creator/YaphetKotto was offered the role of Lando Calrissian, but turned it down because he believed he would be killed off and it would be difficult for[[WhatCouldHaveBeen/StarWars its own page]].him to find work after that.
** Sci-fi author Creator/LeighBrackett was brought in as a writer, as Lucas now lacked time and will to write the entire film himself like he did with ''A New Hope''. Brackett and Lucas came up together with several ideas for the plot, including elements that were left in the final product: Luke's new master being a crazy old alien, Obi-Wan returning as a ghost, the Emperor being the true villain, and a battle taking place in an arctic world. Unfortunately, Brackett died of cancer shortly after, so Lucas found himself doing heavy writing again. By director Kirchner's input, he eventually brought in Lawrence Kasdan, who helped to make the film DarkerAndEdgier.
** In Brackett's first full draft of the story, Vader was explicitly ''not'' Luke's father, and Anakin appeared to Luke on Dagobah as a Force ghost, alongside Obi-Wan. Lucas disliked this aspect, as he had already thought a long time ago that Vader and Anakin were one and the same (a shocking family revelation similar to that of Jessica's father in ''Literature/{{Dune}}''), but Brackett died before Lucas could discuss it with her. Therefore, he then wrote his idea into the story and created all of his background with Kenobi, the Emperor and Mustafar to explain it. It was also around this time that he decided ''Empire Strikes Back'' would be the Episode V of two trilogies, the second being a prequel saga meant to show their backstory.
** Brackett also introduced the idea of Luke had a twin sister, only that in her version she was not Leia, but an unseen character named Nellith who was intended as a SequelHook for later episodes. This was what Lucas had in mind when he inserted the "there is another" line, as he had conceived multiple sequels and would have a lot of room to exploit those ideas. However, after Brackett died and filming on ''Empire'' became a chaotic struggle, he decided to wrap up the saga with only one more film. This led him to make the "other" into somebody we already knew.
** Early story meetings had the wampa as a fish-like monster that could "swim" through snow, in contrast to the Yeti-like creature seen in the finished film. Also, earliest drafts had the wampas arranging a coordinated attack on Echo Base before the Empire even arrived, and a scene of a wampa bursting through one of the base's walls was filmed before being scrapped. There was also an additional sequence where Threepio would have torn a warning sign off of the room where the captured wampas were being held, leading to an unfortunate snowtrooper getting grabbed and mauled during the Imperial invasion.
** Vader would be shown to live on a planet covered with erupting volcanoes, which later inspired Mustafar in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and ultimately be fully entered into canon in ''Film/RogueOne''.
** Initially, Yoda was going to be named Minch Yoda and have a duel with Obi-Wan's ghost. He also received several [[https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4327096.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/yoda-spread.jpg character designs]] before the production team settled for his final form, with body sizes that went from diminutive to enormous. Even after his design was established, the original color they chose for his skin was blue, not green, which was retained in the novelization. The name Minch was later used for a member of Yoda's species in the ExpandedUniverse.
** Lucas originally wanted Creator/JimHenson to give Yoda life (the film was being made at the Elstree Studios complex in England, as was ''Series/TheMuppetShow''). Henson suggested his long time partner Creator/FrankOz, as he was busy with ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' at the time and couldn't commit to a major role in another film. Ironically, Lucas initially felt his puppets weren't realistic enough, so they considered having a trained monkey play Yoda; this was only abandoned because the chosen monkey resisted to wear his mask.
** One of the first ideas for Lando was Lando Kadar, a legendary veteran of the Clone Wars turned into smuggler whom even Vader of all people feared. The character then became a clone who survived the Clone Wars and ruled legions of clones on a planet they settled on, and from there he became simply a descendant of survivors of the Clone Wars, born into a family named Ashandi who reproduced solely by cloning. It was later that he was given the surname Calrissian and his final role.
** One early draft had Luke take the "Jedi Oath" before leaving Dagobah. Said oath was a lot closer to a knightly vow than the more mystical Jedi Code that would later appear:
-->"I, Luke Skywalker, do swear on my honor, and on the faith of the brotherhood of knights, to use the Force only for good, denying, turning always from the Dark Side; to dedicate my life to the cause of freedom, and justice. If I should fail of this vow, my life shall be forfeit, here and hereafter."
** According to Rinzler's book on the making of ''Empire'', one sequence that was written had a scene in the finale where Luke encounters stormtroopers and massacres them all with his lightsaber. The scene was intended to build tension with the audience about Luke potentially going to the Dark Side, while also suggesting that he could potentially beat Vader in a duel, making his defeat that much more shocking. It was removed because Lucas felt that the violence would be out-of-character for Luke, especially the cold-blooded and methodical manner the scene was done. He would repurpose the concept for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' when Anakin massacres the Tusken Raiders.
** An earlier draft had Luke's reason for not leaving with Lando and Chewie at the end being that his Jedi training was more important. Believing that this would make Luke seem less sympathetic, Irvin Kershner had it changed to where Luke was still recovering from his injuries and that rescuing Han would be his first priority once he was fully recovered.
** Boba Fett originally wore white armor and a poncho, but was changed to the current muted color scheme to contrast with the white Stormtroopers and black Darth Vader.
** George Lucas initially did '''not''' want to make a sequel, as the production of the previous had been a "[[TroubledProduction four-year horrific seat-of-the-pants experience]]" that he refused to repeat. Moreover, the unexpected success of ''Star Wars'' was starting to burn Lucas out, and sequels weren't generally well regarded at the time anyways, so Lucas had enough reasons to write it off. However, he eventually accepted because the story of the first film would be left unfinished without any sequels. Lucas still refused to direct it, though, because he would be too busy handling the financing and rebuilding his company Industrial Light & Magic after most of its original crew had left to work in ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica''.
** Back at the time of the first film, Alan Dean Foster, the ghostwriter of novelization, had been commissioned to write a sequel that could be adapted as a low-budget film if ''Star Wars'' was a box-office failure. The result was ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'', considered the first piece of the ''SW'' ExpandedUniverse. The plans to adapt it, however, were ignored with the huge success of the first film.
** Creator/MarkHamill suffered a motorcycle crash in January 1977 that left him facial scars, and Lucas considered making them a WrittenInInfirmity. Also, had Hamill died in the accident, Lucas would have replaced Luke with an entirely new protagonist.
** Creator/YaphetKotto was offered the role of Lando Calrissian, but turned it down because he believed he would be killed off and it would be difficult for
** Sci-fi author Creator/LeighBrackett was brought in as a writer, as Lucas now lacked time and will to write the entire film himself like he did with ''A New Hope''. Brackett and Lucas came up together with several ideas for the plot, including elements that were left in the final product: Luke's new master being a crazy old alien, Obi-Wan returning as a ghost, the Emperor being the true villain, and a battle taking place in an arctic world. Unfortunately, Brackett died of cancer shortly after, so Lucas found himself doing heavy writing again. By director Kirchner's input, he eventually brought in Lawrence Kasdan, who helped to make the film DarkerAndEdgier.
** In Brackett's first full draft of the story, Vader was explicitly ''not'' Luke's father, and Anakin appeared to Luke on Dagobah as a Force ghost, alongside Obi-Wan. Lucas disliked this aspect, as he had already thought a long time ago that Vader and Anakin were one and the same (a shocking family revelation similar to that of Jessica's father in ''Literature/{{Dune}}''), but Brackett died before Lucas could discuss it with her. Therefore, he then wrote his idea into the story and created all of his background with Kenobi, the Emperor and Mustafar to explain it. It was also around this time that he decided ''Empire Strikes Back'' would be the Episode V of two trilogies, the second being a prequel saga meant to show their backstory.
** Brackett also introduced the idea of Luke had a twin sister, only that in her version she was not Leia, but an unseen character named Nellith who was intended as a SequelHook for later episodes. This was what Lucas had in mind when he inserted the "there is another" line, as he had conceived multiple sequels and would have a lot of room to exploit those ideas. However, after Brackett died and filming on ''Empire'' became a chaotic struggle, he decided to wrap up the saga with only one more film. This led him to make the "other" into somebody we already knew.
** Early story meetings had the wampa as a fish-like monster that could "swim" through snow, in contrast to the Yeti-like creature seen in the finished film. Also, earliest drafts had the wampas arranging a coordinated attack on Echo Base before the Empire even arrived, and a scene of a wampa bursting through one of the base's walls was filmed before being scrapped. There was also an additional sequence where Threepio would have torn a warning sign off of the room where the captured wampas were being held, leading to an unfortunate snowtrooper getting grabbed and mauled during the Imperial invasion.
** Vader would be shown to live on a planet covered with erupting volcanoes, which later inspired Mustafar in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and ultimately be fully entered into canon in ''Film/RogueOne''.
** Initially, Yoda was going to be named Minch Yoda and have a duel with Obi-Wan's ghost. He also received several [[https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4327096.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/yoda-spread.jpg character designs]] before the production team settled for his final form, with body sizes that went from diminutive to enormous. Even after his design was established, the original color they chose for his skin was blue, not green, which was retained in the novelization. The name Minch was later used for a member of Yoda's species in the ExpandedUniverse.
** Lucas originally wanted Creator/JimHenson to give Yoda life (the film was being made at the Elstree Studios complex in England, as was ''Series/TheMuppetShow''). Henson suggested his long time partner Creator/FrankOz, as he was busy with ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' at the time and couldn't commit to a major role in another film. Ironically, Lucas initially felt his puppets weren't realistic enough, so they considered having a trained monkey play Yoda; this was only abandoned because the chosen monkey resisted to wear his mask.
** One of the first ideas for Lando was Lando Kadar, a legendary veteran of the Clone Wars turned into smuggler whom even Vader of all people feared. The character then became a clone who survived the Clone Wars and ruled legions of clones on a planet they settled on, and from there he became simply a descendant of survivors of the Clone Wars, born into a family named Ashandi who reproduced solely by cloning. It was later that he was given the surname Calrissian and his final role.
** One early draft had Luke take the "Jedi Oath" before leaving Dagobah. Said oath was a lot closer to a knightly vow than the more mystical Jedi Code that would later appear:
-->"I, Luke Skywalker, do swear on my honor, and on the faith of the brotherhood of knights, to use the Force only for good, denying, turning always from the Dark Side; to dedicate my life to the cause of freedom, and justice. If I should fail of this vow, my life shall be forfeit, here and hereafter."
** According to Rinzler's book on the making of ''Empire'', one sequence that was written had a scene in the finale where Luke encounters stormtroopers and massacres them all with his lightsaber. The scene was intended to build tension with the audience about Luke potentially going to the Dark Side, while also suggesting that he could potentially beat Vader in a duel, making his defeat that much more shocking. It was removed because Lucas felt that the violence would be out-of-character for Luke, especially the cold-blooded and methodical manner the scene was done. He would repurpose the concept for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' when Anakin massacres the Tusken Raiders.
** An earlier draft had Luke's reason for not leaving with Lando and Chewie at the end being that his Jedi training was more important. Believing that this would make Luke seem less sympathetic, Irvin Kershner had it changed to where Luke was still recovering from his injuries and that rescuing Han would be his first priority once he was fully recovered.
** Boba Fett originally wore white armor and a poncho, but was changed to the current muted color scheme to contrast with the white Stormtroopers and black Darth Vader.
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** The Yoda puppet was made of a less-than-optimal material, resulting in it being quite a bit heavier than what Creator/FrankOz was used to from his time with the Muppets. (Contrary to popular belief, Creator/JimHenson and his Creature Shop had nothing to do with the design or manufacture of Yoda, with Oz being chosen for his acting/performing ability only.) The strain put on his arms meant the scenes had to be shot on a quite erratic schedule.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett Creator/LeighBrackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan Creator/LawrenceKasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
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* OrphanedReference: While discussing the Imperial probe droid, Leia asks whether the object detect on radar could be "one of those creatures", which is the only remaining reference to a deleted subplot in which Echo Base was dealing with attempted break-ins by Wampas. Even without that scene, Luke told everyone about the Wampa who caught him.
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* OrphanedReference: While discussing the Imperial probe droid, Leia asks whether the object detect on radar could be "one of those creatures", which is the only remaining reference to a deleted subplot in which Echo Base was dealing with attempted break-ins by Wampas. Even without that scene, though, Luke must have told everyone about the Wampa who caught him.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
** Yoda almost suffered this in the prequels [[spoiler:and [[Film/TheLastJedi sequel]]]] because George Lucas originally asked Jim Henson to play him.
** John Barry, who had been production designer on the first film, was earmarked as a possible future director for the series by Lucas, and given the second unit director's job on this film to give him some experience (he had previously signed on to direct ''Film/Saturn3'', but it fell through when it turned out Barry had no real idea how a film shoot actually works). Sadly, he suddenly fell ill with meningitis halfway through production and died just a few hours later, forcing the team to find a new second unit director and robbing Lucas of the obvious choice to direct the next film.
** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
** Yoda almost suffered this in the prequels [[spoiler:and [[Film/TheLastJedi sequel]]]] because George Lucas originally asked Jim Henson to play him.
** John Barry, who had been production designer on the first film, was earmarked as a possible future director for the series by Lucas, and given the second unit director's job on this film to give him some experience (he had previously signed on to direct ''Film/Saturn3'', but it fell through when it turned out Barry had no real idea how a film shoot actually works). Sadly, he suddenly fell ill with meningitis halfway through production and died just a few hours later, forcing the team to find a new second unit director and robbing Lucas of the obvious choice to direct the next film.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
** John Barry, who had been production designer on the first film, was earmarked as a possible future director for the series by Lucas, and given the second unit director's job on this film to give him some experience (he had previously signed on to direct ''Film/Saturn3'', but it fell through when it turned out Barry had no real idea how a film shoot actually works). Sadly, he suddenly fell ill with meningitis halfway through production and died just a few hours later, forcing the team to find a new second unit director and robbing Lucas of the obvious choice to direct the next film.
** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
** John Barry, who had been production designer on the first film, was earmarked as a possible future director for the series by Lucas, and given the second unit director's job on this film to give him some experience (he had previously signed on to direct ''Film/Saturn3'', but it fell through when it turned out Barry had no real idea how a film shoot actually works). Sadly, he suddenly fell ill with meningitis halfway through production and died just a few hours later, forcing the team to find a new second unit director and robbing Lucas of the obvious choice to direct the next film.
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* {{Blooper}}: Darth Vader's signature breathing noise is entirely missing from the film's Hungarian Special Edition dub due to an infamous audio-mixing oversight. It still wasn't included in the retouched Blu-Ray edition, only in the newly filmed (and thus newly dubbed) alternate scene where Vader talks with the Emperor. The previous two dubs weren't goof-free either, the first one had Luke mispronouncing the word droid as "dorid".
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* TheOtherDarrin: The voice actor who dubbed Darth Vader for the French version of ''Film/ANewHope'', François Chaumette, did not come back for ''The Empire Strikes Back''. He was replaced by Creator/GeorgesAminel, whose voice sounded much deeper than Chaumette's and much closer to that of Creator/JamesEarlJones. Aminel would voice Vader again for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and passed away in 2007.
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** The voice actor who dubbed Darth Vader for the French version of ''Film/ANewHope'', François Chaumette, did not come back for ''The Empire Strikes Back''. He was replaced by Creator/GeorgesAminel, whose voice sounded much deeper than Chaumette's and much closer to that of Creator/JamesEarlJones. Aminel would voice Vader again for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and passed away in2007.2007.
** A similar but more convoluted case befell the Hungarian dub. [[SequelFirst This was the first film of the series to be dubbed in that language]], but Vader's voice actor Attila Nagy would not return for the other two. Then the whole trilogy was given [[DuelingDubs a more consistent re-dub]] after Nagy's passing, with Frigyes Hollósi dubbing Vader in all three films. For the Special Edition re-re-dub, Hollósi only returned for ''A New Hope'' and Lajos Kránitz, Vader's voice from the original ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' dub, stepped in to replace him. Then for the Blu-Ray version's alternate scene of Vader talking to the Emperor, Hollósi returned to dub Vader again because Kránitz had also died in the meantime, essentially meaning Vader not only ended up with three voices in various separate dubs, but he has two voices in the most recent dub.
** The voice actor who dubbed Darth Vader for the French version of ''Film/ANewHope'', François Chaumette, did not come back for ''The Empire Strikes Back''. He was replaced by Creator/GeorgesAminel, whose voice sounded much deeper than Chaumette's and much closer to that of Creator/JamesEarlJones. Aminel would voice Vader again for ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and passed away in
** A similar but more convoluted case befell the Hungarian dub. [[SequelFirst This was the first film of the series to be dubbed in that language]], but Vader's voice actor Attila Nagy would not return for the other two. Then the whole trilogy was given [[DuelingDubs a more consistent re-dub]] after Nagy's passing, with Frigyes Hollósi dubbing Vader in all three films. For the Special Edition re-re-dub, Hollósi only returned for ''A New Hope'' and Lajos Kránitz, Vader's voice from the original ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' dub, stepped in to replace him. Then for the Blu-Ray version's alternate scene of Vader talking to the Emperor, Hollósi returned to dub Vader again because Kránitz had also died in the meantime, essentially meaning Vader not only ended up with three voices in various separate dubs, but he has two voices in the most recent dub.
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** 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
** After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the Wampas.
** Luke mans a cannon aboard a Rebel transport and shoots an attacking wampa.
** While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears away the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room. Sure enough, they do, and one of the snowtroopers is pulled in by a wampa. The other troopers stare in disbelief and Darth Vader walks up, seemingly just as confused or silently reprimanding them for stopping.
** Several Rebel troopers attempt to fend off several wampas that have escaped their containment unit during the battle of Hoth
** R2-D2 wanders down a corridor and narrowly escapes a wampa.
** Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up four metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating.
** Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
** Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
** Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.
** A scene in which Lobot has dialogue.
** Han and Leia continue their argument beyond "You could use a good kiss!"
** 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
** After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the Wampas.
** Luke mans a cannon aboard a Rebel transport and shoots an attacking wampa.
** While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears away the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room. Sure enough, they do, and one of the snowtroopers is pulled in by a wampa. The other troopers stare in disbelief and Darth Vader walks up, seemingly just as confused or silently reprimanding them for stopping.
** Several Rebel troopers attempt to fend off several wampas that have escaped their containment unit during the battle of Hoth
** R2-D2 wanders down a corridor and narrowly escapes a wampa.
** Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up four metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating.
** Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
** Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
** Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.
** A scene in which Lobot has dialogue.
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** Han and Leia continue their argument beyond "You could use a good kiss!"
** 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
** After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the Wampas.
** Luke mans a cannon aboard a Rebel transport and shoots an attacking wampa.
** While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears away the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room. Sure enough, they do, and one of the snowtroopers is pulled in by a wampa. The other troopers stare in disbelief and Darth Vader walks up, seemingly just as confused or silently reprimanding them for stopping.
** Several Rebel troopers attempt to fend off several wampas that have escaped their containment unit during the battle of Hoth
** R2-D2 wanders down a corridor and narrowly escapes a wampa.
** Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up four metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating.
** Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
** Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
** Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.
** A scene in which Lobot has dialogue.DeletedScene: [[DeletedScene/StarWars See here]].
** Han and Leia continue their argument beyond "You could use a good kiss!"
** 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
** After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the Wampas.
** Luke mans a cannon aboard a Rebel transport and shoots an attacking wampa.
** While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears away the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room. Sure enough, they do, and one of the snowtroopers is pulled in by a wampa. The other troopers stare in disbelief and Darth Vader walks up, seemingly just as confused or silently reprimanding them for stopping.
** Several Rebel troopers attempt to fend off several wampas that have escaped their containment unit during the battle of Hoth
** R2-D2 wanders down a corridor and narrowly escapes a wampa.
** Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up four metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating.
** Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
** Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
** Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.
** A scene in which Lobot has dialogue.
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* CreatorsPest: Creator/LawrenceKasdan admitted in interviews that he hated writing for C-3PO because there was nothing for him to do in the story.
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** Apparently, Creator/TemueraMorrison redubbing Boba's lines in the re-release was a last-minute decision by George Lucas, who called up Morrison in the middle of the night as they were putting in the finishing touches. Morrison, just wanting to go back to sleep, did the lines over the phone.
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* LyingCreator: To make absolutely sure the big twist wouldn't leak, only Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Creator/JamesEarlJones, and Creator/MarkHamill knew about the real line, with the script featuring Vader saying "Obi-Wan killed your father." The rest of the cast and crew only learned the truth at the movie's premiere (when the true line was spoken, it allegedly prompted a BigWhat from Harrison Ford), and Creator/DavidProwse was quite upset with Lucas afterwards, saying his physical acting would have been completely different if he'd known the real line.
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* LyingCreator: LyingCreator:
** To make absolutely sure the big twist wouldn't leak, only Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Creator/JamesEarlJones, and Creator/MarkHamill knew about the real line, with the script featuring Vader saying "Obi-Wan killed your father." The rest of the cast and crew only learned the truth at the movie's premiere (when the true line was spoken, it allegedly prompted a BigWhat from Harrison Ford), and Creator/DavidProwse was quite upset with Lucas afterwards, saying his physical acting would have been completely different if he'd known the real line.
** To make absolutely sure the big twist wouldn't leak, only Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Creator/JamesEarlJones, and Creator/MarkHamill knew about the real line, with the script featuring Vader saying "Obi-Wan killed your father." The rest of the cast and crew only learned the truth at the movie's premiere (when the true line was spoken, it allegedly prompted a BigWhat from Harrison Ford), and Creator/DavidProwse was quite upset with Lucas afterwards, saying his physical acting would have been completely different if he'd known the real line.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas called this "the worst ''Star Wars'' film".[[http://thisisanadventure.com/2011/02/george-lucas-reconsidered/ Yes, really.]] Though, then again, problems with filming and its original reception need to be remembered, since at the time of its release the film was considered worse than the original by critics and many moviegoers.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas called this "the worst ''Star Wars'' film".[[http://thisisanadventure.com/2011/02/george-lucas-reconsidered/ Yes, really.]] Though, then again, problems with filming and its original reception need to be remembered, since at the time of its release the film was considered worse than the original by critics and many moviegoers.
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* JumpScare: Not an example from the film itself, but rather one of its DVD releases. The Limited Edition DVD release of 2006 (which paired the Special Edition with the original 1980 version) contains two within its DVD menus. The DVD plays different menu scenes at random. One is a view of an Imperial probe droid floating over the planet Hoth; click "Play Movie" and before the film begins a Wampa comes out of nowhere and dives at the viewer. A less startling one, another random menu, is a view of the Dagobah swamp; click "Play Movie" and R2-D2 shoots out of the swamp and towards the viewer.
* OrphanedReference: While discussing the Imperial probe droid, Leia asks whether the object detect on radar could be "one of those creatures", which is the only remaining reference to a deleted subplot in which Echo Base was dealing with attempted break-ins by Wampas. Even without that scene, Luke told everyone about the Wampa who caught him.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** Han was frozen in Carbonite because Creator/HarrisonFord wasn't sure he wanted to appear in the next film, and so the character was PutOnABus with Lando positioned to potentially take over the equivalent character role if Ford decided to not participate. Needless to say, TheBusCameBack.
** Contrary to popular belief, the scene where Luke got bashed around by the Wampa was NOT due to Creator/MarkHamill's car accident.
** Han was frozen in Carbonite because Creator/HarrisonFord wasn't sure he wanted to appear in the next film, and so the character was PutOnABus with Lando positioned to potentially take over the equivalent character role if Ford decided to not participate. Needless to say, TheBusCameBack.
** Contrary to popular belief, the scene where Luke got bashed around by the Wampa was NOT due to Creator/MarkHamill's car accident.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Darth Vader's BreakoutVillain status is reflected with his actor's (Creator/DavidProwse) noting the movie to be his personal favorite.
-->'''David Prowse:''' ''"This for me was my favorite of the Star Wars movies. We had a wonderful director, Irvin Kershner, who I rank as one of the best directors I have ever worked with. It was, of course, a big reunion for us all, and by now we all knew that we were involved in a cinematic phenomena. [...] The old team were back together, plus new cast members like Caroline Blakiston who played Mon Mothma, and my old friend Bruce Boa who played General Reikeen. Bruce and I remained good friends right up until his death. [...] and I thought the carbon freezer scenes were sensational [...]"'' [[https://www.darthvader-starwars.com/film-and-tv.htm]]
-->'''David Prowse:''' ''"This for me was my favorite of the Star Wars movies. We had a wonderful director, Irvin Kershner, who I rank as one of the best directors I have ever worked with. It was, of course, a big reunion for us all, and by now we all knew that we were involved in a cinematic phenomena. [...] The old team were back together, plus new cast members like Caroline Blakiston who played Mon Mothma, and my old friend Bruce Boa who played General Reikeen. Bruce and I remained good friends right up until his death. [...] and I thought the carbon freezer scenes were sensational [...]"'' [[https://www.darthvader-starwars.com/film-and-tv.htm]]
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** Creator/DavidProwse, while pleased with the film overall (as noted above), was furious at Lucas and Kershner for keeping him in the dark about the big reveal because he would have acted out the scene completely different had he known the real twist.
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** Creator/DavidProwse, while pleased with the film overall (as noted above), below), was furious at Lucas and Kershner for keeping him in the dark about the big reveal because he would have acted out the scene completely different had he known the real twist.twist.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Darth Vader's BreakoutVillain status is reflected with his actor's (Creator/DavidProwse) noting the movie to be his personal favorite.
-->'''David Prowse:''' ''"This for me was my favorite of the Star Wars movies. We had a wonderful director, Irvin Kershner, who I rank as one of the best directors I have ever worked with. It was, of course, a big reunion for us all, and by now we all knew that we were involved in a cinematic phenomena. [...] The old team were back together, plus new cast members like Caroline Blakiston who played Mon Mothma, and my old friend Bruce Boa who played General Reikeen. Bruce and I remained good friends right up until his death. [...] and I thought the carbon freezer scenes were sensational [...]"'' [[https://www.darthvader-starwars.com/film-and-tv.htm]]
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Darth Vader's BreakoutVillain status is reflected with his actor's (Creator/DavidProwse) noting the movie to be his personal favorite.
-->'''David Prowse:''' ''"This for me was my favorite of the Star Wars movies. We had a wonderful director, Irvin Kershner, who I rank as one of the best directors I have ever worked with. It was, of course, a big reunion for us all, and by now we all knew that we were involved in a cinematic phenomena. [...] The old team were back together, plus new cast members like Caroline Blakiston who played Mon Mothma, and my old friend Bruce Boa who played General Reikeen. Bruce and I remained good friends right up until his death. [...] and I thought the carbon freezer scenes were sensational [...]"'' [[https://www.darthvader-starwars.com/film-and-tv.htm]]
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* ButIPlayOneOnTV: When his daughter was in elementary school, Creator/BillyDeeWilliams (Lando Calrissan) would have children run up to him and angrily say [[NeverLiveItDown "You betrayed Han Solo!"]], and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he'd attempt to explain why Lando did what he did]].
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* ButIPlayOneOnTV: When his daughter was in elementary school, Creator/BillyDeeWilliams (Lando Calrissan) would have children run up to him and angrily say [[NeverLiveItDown "You betrayed Han Solo!"]], and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he'd attempt to explain why Lando did what he did]].
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* SparedByTheCut: General Veers was originally supposed to die when a damaged snowspeeder crashes head-on into his Walker. This was kept in the {{novelization}}.
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** General Veers was originally supposed to die when a damaged snowspeeder crashes head-on into his Walker. This was kept in the{{novelization}}.{{novelization}}.
** Lobot was supposed to be captured by stormtroopers and taken away to be killed.
** General Veers was originally supposed to die when a damaged snowspeeder crashes head-on into his Walker. This was kept in the
** Lobot was supposed to be captured by stormtroopers and taken away to be killed.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp Sci-Fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'.
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** Creator/GeorgeLucas hated the process of scripting the first film, so he hired noted pulp Sci-Fi sci-fi novel author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script for ''Empire''. She wrote one draft, but died of cancer soon afterwards. As a result, Lucas wrote the next few drafts himself, before asking Lawrence Kasdan to do revisions. Incidentally, the famous LukeIAmYourFather reveal wasn't in Brackett's draft; Lucas only added it when he started rewriting the script himself. Although most of her version was rewritten, two contributions by Brackett did end up making it into to the final film: the planet names 'Hoth' and 'Bespin'. Brackett also has an official screenwriting credit along with Kasdan; Lucas left his name off the script because only two writers could be credited and he wanted to honor Brackett's memory and the work she did while sick with cancer.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Vader says "No, ''I'' am your father", '''not''' "Luke, I am your father." He also doesn't say "Impressive. Most impressive. But you are not a Jedi yet!" These are two separate lines.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Vader says "No, ''I'' am your father", '''not''' "Luke, I am your father." He also doesn't say "Impressive. Most impressive. But you are not a Jedi yet!" These are two separate lines. In 2020, the director of ''Film/TommyBoy'' accepted the likely blame for the former, due to it being misquoted that way in the film.
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** Creator/DavidProwse, while pleased with the film overall, was furious at Lucas and Kershner for keeping him in the dark about the big reveal because he would have acted out the scene completely different had he known the real twist.
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** Creator/DavidProwse, while pleased with the film overall, overall (as noted above), was furious at Lucas and Kershner for keeping him in the dark about the big reveal because he would have acted out the scene completely different had he known the real twist.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Defied. George Lucas wanted an opening scroll for ''Empire Strikes Back'' to match the one he did for ''Star Wars''. The Director's Guild of America attempted to force Lucas to have opening credits instead.[[note]]During this time, it was required to have the credits in the opening to give proper due to the director of the film. The Guild gave Lucas a free pass with the first film because he was the director himself, but since Lucas had someone else direct ''Empire'', they were no longer letting him off the hook.[[/note]] Long story short, Lucas decided to quit the guild and form his own studio so he'd never have to deal with the meddling from guilds again.
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** Han was frozen in Carbonite because Creator/HarrisonFord wasn't sure he wanted to appear in the next film, and so the character was PutOnABus. Needless to say, TheBusCameBack.
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** Han was frozen in Carbonite because Creator/HarrisonFord wasn't sure he wanted to appear in the next film, and so the character was PutOnABus.PutOnABus with Lando positioned to potentially take over the equivalent character role if Ford decided to not participate. Needless to say, TheBusCameBack.
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* ActingInTheDark: As Creator/GeorgeLucas didn't want the twist getting out, outside of Creator/JamesEarlJones and Creator/MarkHamill, no one knew the twist that Vader was really Anakin himself. Creator/DavidProwse was instead led to believe that Obi-Wan really killed Anakin and, as noted below, he was pissed upon finding out the truth, stating he'd acted differently if he'd known.
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* ActingInTheDark: As Creator/GeorgeLucas didn't want the twist getting out, outside of Creator/JamesEarlJones and Creator/MarkHamill, no one knew the twist that Vader was really Anakin himself. Creator/DavidProwse was instead led to believe that Obi-Wan really killed Anakin and, as noted below, he was pissed upon finding out the truth, stating he'd have acted differently if he'd known.
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** Han and Leia continue their argument beyond "You could use a good kiss!"
** 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
** After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the Wampas.
** Luke mans a cannon aboard a Rebel transport and shoots an attacking wampa.
** While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears away the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room. Sure enough, they do, and one of the snowtroopers is pulled in by a wampa. The other troopers stare in disbelief and Darth Vader walks up, seemingly just as confused or silently reprimanding them for stopping.
** Several Rebel troopers attempt to fend off several wampas that have escaped their containment unit during the battle of Hoth
** R2-D2 wanders down a corridor and narrowly escapes a wampa.
** Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up four metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating.
** Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
** Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
** Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.
** A scene in which Lobot has dialogue.
** Han and Leia continue their argument beyond "You could use a good kiss!"
** 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
** After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the Wampas.
** Luke mans a cannon aboard a Rebel transport and shoots an attacking wampa.
** While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears away the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room. Sure enough, they do, and one of the snowtroopers is pulled in by a wampa. The other troopers stare in disbelief and Darth Vader walks up, seemingly just as confused or silently reprimanding them for stopping.
** Several Rebel troopers attempt to fend off several wampas that have escaped their containment unit during the battle of Hoth
** R2-D2 wanders down a corridor and narrowly escapes a wampa.
** Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up four metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating.
** Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
** Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
** Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.
** A scene in which Lobot has dialogue.
