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Civil War is The Empire Strikes Back for the MCU.
Look, The Empire Strikes Back is a very good movie.
She conquers, but it strikes back for its final revenge.
You ever see that really old movie, "Empire Strikes Back"?
Go deeper: Understanding America's ethanol policy; The ethanol empire strikes back
I recall seeing The Empire Strikes Back when I was young.
" The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi" (1983).
The empire finally strikes back — Disney+Pedro Pascal + Baby Yoda = genius.
Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution will arrive on Netflix on February 27th.
Take Boba Fett's appearance here and in The Empire Strikes Back.
The physics work the same way as in The Empire Strikes Back.
Like I said: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back with giant camels.
Glover went home and watched Lando's debut in The Empire Strikes Back.
The Washington Post: White House strikes back at Woodward and his reporting.
Someone who has an "Empire Strikes Back" poster hanging in their house?
Old Europe strikes back against New America Consider the EU reaction to Washington's decision to isolate Tehran with secondary sanctions; the EU strikes back to protect European companies from our sanctions, imposed by Treasury on Iran, May 85033.
But with the Star Wars films, people specifically called out Empire Strikes Back.
But the relationship had "cooled" by the time they filmed Empire Strikes Back.
Vader teleconferences with the Emperor from across the galaxy in Empire Strikes Back.
Williams originally joined the franchise back in 1980, in The Empire Strikes Back.
" Hamill's favorite film in the "Star Wars" franchise is "The Empire Strikes Back.
Yes, better than Empire Strikes Back – and not even with that much difficulty.
And The Empire Strikes Back was roughly three years after the original movie.
It has one of the best sequels ever in The Empire Strikes back.
" At lunch, he says, "I'm in big trouble with 'The Empire Strikes Back.
"A New Hope's" success meant that "The Empire Strikes Back" could be made.
Berger, wanting to preëmpt "Empire Strikes Back" jokes, called the expedition Rising Star.
Nick Kyrgios strikes back at Tomic (28 minutes is the answer, remember), deletes, placates.
Now, Columbia is back for a second Empire Strikes Back-inspired piece of outerwear.
Even Empire Strikes Back had some people scratching their heads when it first opened.
The prominent Rebel base from "The Empire Strikes Back" was filmed in Finse, Norway.
Just slap on the cybernetic headgear worn by Lobot in the Empire Strikes Back.
Given the opportunity, he made the best Star Wars since The Empire Strikes Back.
" Screenwriter Chris Terrio called Batman v Superman "a bit of an Empire Strikes Back.
George Lucas even went so far as to add scenes to Empire Strikes Back.
Williams joined the franchise for its second installment, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.
Alas, the network passed on Gilmore Girls: Part Deux and The Sookie Strikes Back.
Recreate the iconic Empire Strikes Back scene in your very own Tauntaun sleeping bag.
He sees what people do and then he strikes back by doing the opposite.
TikTok stars Charli and Dixie D&aposAmelio sign with UTA (exclusive): UTA strikes back!
The ice planet of Hoth, seen only in Empire Strikes Back, now leads the pack.
Pokémon Company International and Netflix are releasing "Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back — Evolution" on February 27.
I even managed to convince myself I didn't look like Lobot from Empire Strikes Back.
The Empire Strikes Back tried to box her in as Han Solo's tolerant love interest.
While he was there, his first book, "The South Strikes Back," was published by Doubleday.
The latest Pokémon movie Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution is coming to Netflix in February.
"The Empire Strikes Back" also garnered an Oscar for that, as well as best sound.
" Many wondered if "The Last Jedi" would similarly pay homage to "The Empire Strikes Back.
In The Empire Strikes Back, we see Luke's dream sequence of fighting himself as Darth Vader.
Mark Hamill was promoting The Empire Strikes Back at the time, so he did not attend.
The motorcycle serves as your main narrative device, launching a visual novel titled Travis Strikes Back.
The next rung on the ladder is The Empire Strikes Back, which earned $2503 million domestically.
Then imagine what The Empire Strikes Back might look like if it were presented this way.
The second installment, 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back," grossed a total of $457 million worldwide.
"Corrupt Empire Strikes Back" read the headline of the English language newspaper Kyiv Post on Friday.
Oz's mastery of the first puppet in "The Empire Strikes Back" is a tradition that continues.
Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution, as it'll be called when it releases in Japanese cinemas on Jul.
Actor Julian Glover had a small supporting role as a military adviser in "The Empire Strikes Back."
"Black-Haired Semi-Conscious Adult-Diaper Luke," recovering after a wampa attack in The Empire Strikes Back.
Will the as-yet-untitled Episode VIII have the darker, more mature feel of Empire Strikes Back?
But he also co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
" Lando was played by Billy Dee Williams in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi.
Will "Star Wars: Episode VIII," directed by Rian Johnson, be the "Empire Strikes Back" of the franchise?
" There's even an asteroid-dodging space flight that owes a spiritual debt to "The Empire Strikes Back.
Here's the Star Destroyer from The Empire Strikes Back, which takes place very shortly after Rogue One.
The series is set in the time between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
"We always talk about 'Empire Strikes Back,'" cocreator Matt Duffer said on the official "Stranger Things" podcast.
My first appearance was as a cross-dresser in The Pink Panther Strikes Back, and then 1776.
President Trump has repeatedly threatened to target sites of cultural significance to Iranians if Tehran strikes back.
There are big structural things that are going to be very similar to The Empire Strikes Back.
Joe Staten We had all thought, and hoped, this is going to be like The Empire Strikes Back.
Unfortunately, Lucas fell out with Kurtz during production on Empire Strikes Back because of the movie's cost overruns.
While Trump strikes back by accusing Cruz of lying and cheating, some of his shine has worn off.
My father taught me that every blow strikes back, even if that retribution comes in a different form.
"Star Wars" icon Han Solo's jacket from "The Empire Strikes Back" is going up for auction this fall.
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke battles the dark side of the force in a cave on Dagobah.
New Star Wars Arcade Machine + Riser w/ A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi $500
But the joke's on them: The writer strikes back using a savvy satirical touch, and the bullying backfires.
A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back always made the Rebellion seem so righteous, organized and pure.
Kasdan senior was the co-screenwriter on Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. 
Kenner was prepared for the 1980 sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back," but Lucas renegotiated the deal that year.
For those unfamiliar, Lando appeared first in the 1980 movie "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" in Cloud City.
The second movie of the original Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, focused on Luke Skywalker's Jedi training.
He then went on to star in spinoff series Storage Wars: Barry Strikes Back, which ran for one season.
It's a multi-genre mix that calls to mind the original A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
That won't stop me from looking at something from The Empire Strikes Back—the introduction of the TIE bomber.
" Fisher went on to appear in 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" and 1983's "Return of the Jedi.
She appeared in two sequels, "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," along with several other films.
He's a chatty fellow who spouts wisdom gleaned from The Empire Strikes Back and is a joy to watch.
Their astounding merchandising revenues came through to Lucasfilm at a crucial point in its funding of Empire Strikes Back.
In "The Empire Strikes Back," we learned that a city in the clouds was not such a great idea.
In "The Empire Strikes Back," Luke flies up out of a hiding spot to avoid Vader at one point.
And "Return of the Jedi" was only greenlit after "The Empire Strikes Back" had a solid run in theaters.
The result is an action-packed book that covers the Rebellion between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
The blue-gray jacket Han Solo wore in "The Empire Strikes Back" can be yours for a cool $1.3 million.
Just look at Willrow Hood, a Cloud City refugee with two seconds of screen time in The Empire Strikes Back.
Though porn projects have turned to crowdfunding before, none have ever been quite as ambitious as Empire Strikes Back XXX.
It doesn't try to be Empire Strikes Back, it's super weird, and it knows puppets are better than CGI characters.
Thankfully, we get just the slightest view of what's in Luke Skywalker's to-go box in The Empire Strikes Back.
Yeah, Lando screwed up in Empire Strikes Back when he betrayed his friend to the Empire and almost ruined everything.
After the first strikes back in April, there were bipartisan pleas for the administration to lay out its goals in Syria.
The company also released a trailer for the "Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution" movie, scheduled for release in Japan next week.
After Drogon blasts White Walkers with fire, the Night King strikes back with a magical spear, killing Daenerys' beloved dragon, Viserion.
Yoda first told those pesky Dagobah seagulls to knock it off in the Bad Lip Reading for The Empire Strikes Back.
It began as Red Squadron in A New Hope, and appeared in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Luke Skywalker's trusty blaster from 1980's The Empire Strikes Back could be yours, provided you're wealthy as Jabba the Hutt.
Fans also knew from The Empire Strikes Back that Han won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian in a card game.
The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan wrote Solo with his son Jon Kasdan (The First Time).
" Melinda Snodgrass on Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back: "I was in this law office, and I hated it.
There's even some question at this point as to whether or not it will manage to beat The Empire Strikes Back.
The film is written by Lawrence Kasdan, whose credits include "The Empire Strikes Back" and " Raiders of the Lost Ark " (1981).
Indeed, while "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" are widely hailed as great films, there hasn't really been one since.
The trip to Bespin in "The Empire Strikes Back" may have been a trap, but this Cloud City-themed bedroom isn't.
The emperor strikes back by summoning Sidonia to the royal space station, where he intends to hold her hostage, or worse.
Listen to More Or Less on the Radio 4 Website Tim's latest book, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, is out now.
Its reminiscent of the times in The Empire Strikes Back when Luke was training on Dagobah, out of breath from his training.
Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The Return of the Jedi (1983) were directed by Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand, who are men.
Backing her was Kasdan, Star Wars royalty — the screenwriter of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
Winter strikes back on Friday with gusty winds from the northwest, temperatures stuck in the 30s, and wind chills in the 20s.
By the time it's revealed that he's Luke father in The Empire Strikes Back, he'd systematically crippled the Rebellion physically and emotionally.
And this time, I have to say it: The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back.
We are not going to leave everybody at the end of The Empire Strikes Back the same way — Luke lost a hand.
You live in this pop culture, so you know that Darth Vader says, "I am your father" in The Empire Strikes Back.
At the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke loses his hand and gains the knowledge that Darth Vader is his father.
Famously, you were vindicated and wrote what many would perceive as the penultimate beginning of trans feminism with The Empire Strikes Back .
He said he had been a lifelong admirer of Ms. Fisher's since watching "The Empire Strikes Back" when he was just 4.
Of course, George created Jedi Master Yoda for his 1980 film "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (aka the Star Wars G.O.A.T.).
But Rey disturbs that retirement by presenting Luke with his original lightsaber, the one lost on Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back.
"I waited in line in 1977 for 'Star Wars,' and then 'Empire Strikes Back' and then 'Return of the Jedi," he says.
But I don't think, after watching the movie, many people will have the feeling of a copy of The Empire Strikes Back.
The US strikes back against Russia for campaign hacks; the truth about Trump's effect on the economy; a new ceasefire in Syria.
The Middleman Strikes Back When Zulily went public in 2013, it sparked a resurgence of interest in an otherwise lagging e-commerce market.
Multiple storylines interweave in a way that may have looked Empire Strikes Back-sharp in an outline, but in practice, it's painfully awkward.
For those unfamiliar, Lando first appeared in the film "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" as a friend to Harrison Ford's Han Solo.
My personal favorite Star Wars gag is in The Empire Strikes Back, when Vader is talking to holograms of three of his lieutenants.
There's been some fan concern that Last Jedi might mimic Empire Strikes Back too closely, down to the dark tone and open ending.
How many times have we seen the second movie in a trilogy described as the "darkest" one, à la The Empire Strikes Back?
Sadly, she did not make the script revisions on the Empire Strikes Back screenplay that have recently gone viral as attributed to her.
The Midwest and West Coast took more to Return of the Jedi, while Empire Strikes Back inexplicably only topped the results in Utah.
"The Empire Strikes Back" was not completed on time and went over budget, costing more than $19893 million (more than $100 million today).
Then Don Bies saved the original cassettes for Empire Strikes Back, which were literally in the trash can when he pulled them out.
She dares him to judge her, and when he does, she strikes back, dismissing his naïve, pious criticisms of her turbo-capitalist lifestyle.
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Because at the stroke of Darth Vader's lightsaber, the grizzliest moment in "The Empire Strikes Back" has had a useful, if unintentional, consequence.
She strikes back at the dictator in her own way, crossing a personal boundary in order to express a disgust that she can't contain.
At the Game Developers Conference this year, there's going to be a roundtable discussion called "Censorship Strikes Back," touching on the loot box conversation.
After Empire Strikes Back, my friends and I simply couldn't handle the fact that our hero and the galaxy's most evil man were related.
O'Brien provided photos of a Pop figure of Han Solo riding a tauntaun from "The Empire Strikes Back" as an example of this process.
Baker returned for "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," and reprised the role in three prequels released between 1999 and 2005.
The film also includes a passing reference to the bounty hunter Bossk, who popped up in The Clone Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
In fact, given the popularity of The Empire Strikes Back, odds are that Last Jedi ticket holders have already seen it many, many times.
I think there's something beautiful and weird about the Star Wars universe, and The Empire Strikes Back is one of my favorite movies ever.
Correction: The original post incorrectly included a tweet that described a marked-up page from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back as Fisher's work.
Commemorate the iconic moment when Hal Solo got trapped in carbonite during The Empire Strikes Back with this geeky mini-fridge that's 25% off.
And under his iconic helmet, Darth Vader in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back had scars, deep wrinkles and dark circles around his eyes.
Darth Vader's helmet worn by actor David Prowse in "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" sold to an anonymous bidder for $898,420.
Directing a Star Wars would be a dream come true; Empire Strikes Back was my first movie when I was two-and-a-half.
All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
In Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, do we really need to be told that the rebels have set up a base on Hoth?
When the choice came to be in the second film, "The Empire Strikes Back," I realized it was a kind of obligation or duty.
I'm watching this wonderful scene reenactment of The Empire Strikes Back and I'm not sure I even miss the real Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
First, in The Empire Strikes Back, Imperial forces have a chance to crush the Rebellion once and for all on the frozen world of Hoth.
The film was been written by The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan (The First Time).
But the short animated film "The Constitution Strikes Back—The Cruzade, starring Ted Cruz" is even more cheesy and bizarre than one might have imagined.
It's also incredibly violent, and the Mountain looks suspiciously like Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back when he's on the bridge with Luke Skywalker.
Luke's vision on Dagobah in Empire Strikes Back — of his friends being tortured in Cloud City — may also have been a glimpse of the future.
It's a tale as old as time: a maverick upstart galls a bigger, more established competitor, and the bigger guy strikes back in the courts.
But if "The Last Jedi" is all too similar to "The Empire Strikes Back" in outline, what is different about it is its maverick attitude.
In fact, Miller was responsible for many of the rumors that floated around leading up to the release of "The Empire Strikes Back" in 1980.
It's about the group of smugglers that he says played a key in establishing the Rebel base on Hoth (the one from Empire Strikes Back).
It's not like I'm going to reveal that Darth Vader is Luke's father (oops—slight spoiler alert if you haven't seen The Empire Strikes Back).
In addition to the first Star Wars film in 1977, he also appeared in Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and three prequel editions.
"Right now we're in this Empire Strikes Back moment," says Initialized Capital's Garry Tan, referring to tech giants ruthlessly copying and competing with fresh ideas.
This ad is called "The Truth Strikes Back" and "the truth" in question seems to be that Ossoff was in college in the last decade.
Gordon-Byrne forcefully strikes back against the arguments made by armies of lobbyists hired by trade groups to represent some of the company's largest corporations.
" Han Solo was encased in carbonite at the end of "Empire Strikes Back," only to be revived at the start of "Return of the Jedi.
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And Rakowitz shows us how a war monument in Baghdad called the Hands of Victory uncannily resembles the poster design for The Empire Strikes Back.
Investigating a series of abductions, she strikes back at the Korean patriarchy while also romancing a standard pair of doe-eyed K-drama pretty boys.
And when Biden strikes back, the Trumpian worldview is enhanced: the system is rigged, everyone is out to get him, it's all a witch hunt.
Like a latter-day Yoda, it appears Johnson has cleared his mind and unlearned all that he had learned from the 1980 movie: I think that it would be a mistake to try to copy The Empire Strikes Back, but that it would be just as much as mistake to make creatives decisions based on saying 'We're going to be nothing like The Empire Strikes Back!
Alexa even has a "Tell Lord Vader" skill that quotes The Empire Strikes Back with you, if you don't have a friend to help you out.
This week, the company announced a new version of the Rebel Snowspeeder seen in The Empire Strikes Back, and it is the most impressive one yet.
One of the most common ways to praise a new Star Wars movie is to claim that it's the best one since The Empire Strikes Back.
Brazil has movies that those of us in America could only dream of streaming, like The Godfather Part II, Fight Club, and The Empire Strikes Back.
Luckily Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy agreed, and Disney did not interfere with what became the darkest ending to any Star Wars movie, Empire Strikes Back included. 
It wasn't 'til The Empire Strikes Back that fans realized Darth Vader was a Skywalker, and that Star Wars was the story of the Skywalker family.
The one exception is in the Empire Strikes Back, when he kills Admiral Ozzel while teleconferencing with him, and then promotes Captain Piett on the spot.
Rather we speak of initial reaction to what is now widely recognized as the best and most artistically important Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back.
It reminded me of the poster I had from The Empire Strikes Back that was given away for free when I saw it as a kid.
In The Last Jedi, A New Hope, and Empire Strikes Back, the remaining Jedi describe the Force as a spiritual energy that connects all living things.
Jason Wingreen, the character actor who provided the voice of Boba Fett in "The Empire Strikes Back," died late last month at the age of 95.
After two blockbuster sequels, "The Empire Strikes Back" in 33 and "Return of the Jedi" in 1983, Mr. Hamill believed the "Star Wars" story was complete.
We glimpse a patch of skin at one point; it reminded me of that scene in "The Empire Strikes Back" when we see Darth Vader's scalp.
The lightsaber Luke lost in "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back" somehow winds up in Maz Kanata's palace in "The Force Awakens" decades later.
Set between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," the game stars bounty hunter Dash Render and employs a few different styles of gameplay.
And for us, that means going back to Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back for the wretched filth that Yoda's cooked up in his Dagobah hut.
He's moved through a decent Neil Armstrong impression, "The Empire Strikes Back" and Vermeer, and now he'd like to stir Japanese printmaker Hokusai into the mix.
This scene feels a bit like the Battle of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back, but it's not clear if we're on a desert or icy planet.
And it also comes with Mynocks, BB-8, a Dejarik holochess table, and figures to re-create either The Empire Strikes Back or The Force Awakens crew.
One father did just that recently when he constructed an amazing snowspeeder from The Empire Strikes Back out of cardboard for his daughter to take to school.
It was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (23); these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy.
Described as... One of the earliest elements of the original script for The Empire Strikes Back was an appearance of Darth Vader's lair, known as Bast Castle.
And Melisandre channels Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back when she tells Daenerys she's not the only one with a part to play in the upcoming drama.
I want it to help build and inform the Obi-Wan that we see in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
Through a simple text-based structure, you progress through Travis Strikes Back, collecting the six death balls needed to access the actual gameplay in the Death Drive.
As a response, in 1987, Stone effectively birthed the academic discipline of transgender studies by publishing her enduringly influential essay, The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto.
It's been nearly 40 years since Yoda was introduced in The Empire Strikes Back, and in all that time we've never even learned what his species is.
The IDF launched strikes back, but tensions de-escalated when Gaza's Hamas leaders said the rocket was fired accidentally, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
Mind you, if " The Empire Strikes Back " (1980) had presented us with "the irritating Yoda," we might have paused before munching on his nuggets of gristly wisdom.
Gary Kurtz, who produced "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back," helping George Lucas create one of the most successful franchises in movie history, died on Sept.
Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution originally came out in Japan and Korea in 2019 and will be making its wider international debut on Netflix on Feb. 27.
"It's like 'The Empire Strikes Back,'" Cantillon said on Tuesday, after female directors and films starring women were largely A.W.O.L. from the list of Golden Globe nominees.
Irvin Kirshner, the director of the "The Empire Strikes Back," says Yoda -- the small but spiritually powerful Jedi master -- was created in part to evangelize for Buddhism.
It was a short hop from this description to Yoda's equally inclusive, timeless, heartwarming pronouncement, "luminous beings are we, not this crude matter," in Empire Strikes Back.
Jason Wingreen, who voiced the villain Boba Fett in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and played Harry the bartender on "All In The Family" has died.
The second season, according to the Duffers, will draw inspiration from '80s action-adventure sequels — specifically, Temple of Doom, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, and Terminator 2.
Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker was just a student of the Force when he schlepped Yoda around the swamps of Dagobah on his back in The Empire Strikes Back.
She is the first woman writer of a Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, when Leigh Brackett received a cowriting credit with Lawrence Kasdan.
In the background of one shot loiter a Viper Probe Droid (originally used in Empire Strikes Back) as well as an AT-ST walker (Return of the Jedi).
The Empire Strikes Back Badass pair Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) momentarily pause their bickering to deliver one of the galaxy's most memorable kisses.
The two precious felines, with some help from their human, performed the scene in Empire Strikes Back, where Darth Vader tells Luke Skywalker that he is Luke's father.
The idea that a sequel must be "the Empire Strikes Back of the series" has become prevalent across the entire entertainment industry, and that's not a good thing.
Editor's Note: A previous version of this article pointed to purported script changes that Fisher made to The Empire Strikes Back, which have since been debunked as fake.
On Star Wars Day, during an interview with The Sun, Mark Hamill confirmed how The Force Awakens almost opened with a morbid callback to The Empire Strikes Back.
" He asks the team if they remember a scene in "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back" where "they're on that snowy planet with the walking thingy.
Luke Skywalker's DL-44 Blaster, featured in the 1980's epic "The Empire Strikes Back" is up for auction this week, starting with a minimum bid of $200,000.
Star Wars has always been a bit of its own worst enemy when it comes to keeping secrets, going all the way back to The Empire Strikes Back.
Return of the Jedi made more money than its predecessor, meaning Empire Strikes Back was for many years the least successful Star Wars movie at the box office.
Obi-Wan, Yoda and Luke all benefited from being the last known Jedi in the galaxy in Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi respectively.
And in 2010, a Darth Vader costume made for "The Empire Strikes Back" — including helmet, mask and armor — was offered at auction and expected to sell for $250,000.
The Last Jedi is one of the best movies in the Star Wars franchise, for much the same reason The Empire Strikes Back is one of the best.
That includes action figures of important characters like Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
THE OLD EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: The Europeans, who are thoroughly fed up with being upstaged by the Trump-Xi show, might just have a trick up their sleeve.
Dubbed Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution, the remake of the 1998 film follows Ash and friends as they get wrapped up in a legendary pokémon's quest for revenge.
Other Lego Star Wars sets on sale include the Resistance Y-Wing Starfighter from The Rise of Skywalker and The Empire Strikes Back Action Battle Hoth Generator Attack.
Sony confirmed at E3 2016 that Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped were all due for HD makeovers in an upcoming collection.
While some regard it as one of the best movies in the saga, on par with "The Empire Strikes Back," some despise it, maybe even more than the prequels.
For 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, Wingreen auditioned for Yoda but instead was given the part of Boba Fett, the intergalactic bounty hunter who captures hero Han Solo.
It's not Fellowship of the Ring: Lord of the Rings, and it sure as hell isn't Empire Strikes Back: Star Wars Episode V. Put "Star Wars" front and center.
While watching The Empire Strikes Back with her father, little Anabella had an absolutely priceless reaction to Darth Vader's confession, which her dad managed to surreptitiously capture on film.
As The Daily Dot pointed out yesterday, the photo is from J. W. Rinzler's 2013 book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back, but the caption doesn't mention Fisher.
Attack of the Mutant Camels (Llamasoft, 1983) This horizontally scrolling shooter is essentially a clone of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back for the VCS, except with giant camels.
Mr. Wingreen could be heard as a menacing voice emanating from Boba Fett's helmet in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), the second film of the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
"The day I found out I got it, I remember I bought like a whole pizza and went home and watched The Empire Strikes Back," Glover said, per CinemaBlend.
Real Talk: Fans have known for some time that The Mandalorian will feature IG-88, or some other droid that looks particularly like the Empire Strikes Back bounty hunter.
Well then, as surely as Luke's parental discovery in Empire Strikes Back changed everything in the original trilogy, the way we look at the entire sequel trilogy is transformed.
Mr Lucas added this twist to the script upon writing "The Empire Strikes Back", in 1980, which has the wizened green Jedi master Yoda saying "there is another [hope]".
The flagship Star Wars title, which is coming up on its 50th issue in July, catches up with our heroes between the original movie and The Empire Strikes Back.
I initially skipped one this year by Nicholas R. Lardy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, titled THE STATE STRIKES BACK: The End of Economic Reform in China?
"Second, if you're really cold, slice open and crawl inside a visiting Packers fan," a Green Bay tinged nod to Han Solo's survival skills in The Empire Strikes Back.
The problem came around with The Empire Strikes Back, which featured far more advanced lightsaber fighting than the stately duel between Obi-Wan and Vader in A New Hope.
It&aposs rare to see a superhero movie end on such a downer, but the snap in "Infinity War" proved to be the "Empire Strikes Back" of Avengers movies.
As for the original trilogy, A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983), you'll probably appreciate TROS more if you've seen them.
Jason Wingreen, the man who voiced space bounty hunter Boba Fett in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back passed away on Christmas Day, his family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
It was later revived as cover art for The Jedi Master's Quizbook, published in November 1982, and on a poster for The Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama, circa early 1983.
It has a screenplay by William Goldman, who wrote the far superior King adaptation Misery, and Lawrence Kasdan, who cowrote The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
So Lucasfilm waited weeks, and wove it into an announcement that reverberated like a Death Star explosion: J.J. Abrams and Empire Strikes Back legend Lawrence Kasdan would write it instead.
And according to BuzzFeed News' report, Kalogridis, the Star Wars franchise's first female writer since Empire Strikes Back, is close to completing the first script in a potential KOTOR trilogy.
Instead he's crowdsourcing one of his next films, Empire Strikes Back XXX, asking for that half a million dollars he'd be wasting otherwise, and then he's releasing it for free.
The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi are both well-made Star Wars movies with a lot of humor, where also some bad things happen to characters we like.
Those that are fans of screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan's contributions to the series — he co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens, amongst others — also have reason to celebrate.
Sure, Irvin Kershner gave The Empire Strikes Back a sense of gravitas that didn't seem to interest George Lucas, and The Force Awakens was full of J.J. Abrams' stylistic flair.
If it reminds "Star Wars" fans of Hoth, the frozen planet from the opening of "The Empire Strikes Back" it's because it was filmed nearby, on the edges of Hardangervidda.
In "The Empire Strikes Back," Antilles wraps the tow cable from his snowspeeder around one of the giant AT-AT Walkers' legs to trip it up and render it useless.
Upon hearing that Han Solo's jacket from The Empire Strikes Back is up for sale for a mild $1.3 million, Mark Hamill made a surprise appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The short also has great visual effects that don't rely on CGI, including a stop-motion AT-AT walker that looks like it belongs right in the Empire Strikes Back.
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" After "Star Wars," written and directed by George Lucas, turned into a blockbuster, he brought in Lawrence Kasdan to help write "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi.
Given what we learned way back in 1980's Empire Strikes Back, that Han won the Millennium Falcon from Lando in a game of Sabacc, it could do nothing but.
But these scenes are enjoyable enough, and the script by Lawrence Kasdan (writer of Empire Strikes Back) and son Jon zips smartly along with enough laughs to keep you chuckling.
The jacket worn by Harrison Ford while playing Han Solo in 1980's 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' is being auctioned Thursday by U.K.-based auction house Prop Store.
Where else are you going to learn about the history of iconic, memorable Star Wars characters like Carlist Rieekan and… that guy with an ice cream maker from Empire Strikes Back?
The major news is that AT-ATs, the four-legged armored beasts seen in Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Rogue One (2016), will be present in full-sized, laser-blasting form.
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He went on to continue to play the character in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, and the Star Wars Holiday Special.
After the prequels, George Lucas redubbed all of Fett's dialogue in Empire Strikes Back to give him a New Zealand accent, putting extra pressure on Hamm to get Antipodean with it.
Add it all up with the visually and tonally darker trappings that the trailers have showcased, and there's plenty of potential for The Empire Strikes Back to strike back yet again.
Instead of everyone trying to rip off The Empire Strikes Back, maybe we'll have directors boasting about how their sequels are going to be the Last Jedi of a series instead.
When Neil Burnell visited on a family holiday as a child, he was reminded of Dagobah, the swamp planet where Yoda lives in Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back.
For a human like me who grew up on Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back was super cool (and also one of the top three Star Wars movies of all time).
The script's copy comes from the 2010 book The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which does not describe the origin of the handwritten notes in the copy's caption. 
Stone was specifically mentioned and accused of dividing the women's movement; her life was subsequently put in jeopardy, and in 1987 she wrote, The Empire Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto.
He additionally received Oscar nominations for Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Force Awakens (as well as various other wins and noms for his non-Star Wars work).
The Empire Strikes Back, with its torture, deceit, and death, is in this category: the love interest is the sister, the villain is the father, the master is an old kook.
A few months before "The Empire Strikes Back" was released, he told The New York Times that what he really wanted was to make another sort of picture with Mr. Lucas.
The ability to stream The Empire Strikes Back on your phone or have your kid FaceTime with his grandparents is trivial compared to the ability to afford these big four commodities.
Another featuring his designs for the "Star Wars" sequel "The Empire Strikes Back" and also including drawings for films "Alien" and "Zulu Dawn" is expected to fetch more than 80,000 pounds.
The Cloud Car is having a moment in Star Wars Battlefront II. These goofy-looking atmospheric vehicles first popped up in The Empire Strikes Back, but they've never been a hit.
He had won the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, but he was deeply worried about an establishment-strikes-back scenario that could result in his defeat at the Republican convention.
Obi-Wan Kenobi's (Alec Guinness) death in A New Hope didn't prevent him from appearing as a Jedi Force Ghost in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
So when Star Wars became the biggest movie of all time — saving Fox from skidding into bankruptcy in the process — Lucas was able to use Empire Strikes Back distribution rights as leverage.
He started working in 1978 as a machine room operator at Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where he worked on films such as Grease, The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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To a degree, "The Last Jedi" is derivative, too, in that many of its scenes are minor variations on scenes that were in the 1980 "Star Wars" sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back".
As an example of good empathetic scene pacing, Tony runs through the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Luke tries to lift his X-wing out of the swamp using the Force.
The Last Jedi does feature sequences that directly recall The Empire Strikes Back, though Johnson's script uses their familiarity to play against expectations and subvert viewers' nostalgia, instead of paying it off.
When photographer Neil Burnell visited on a family holiday as a child, he was reminded of Dagobah, the swamp planet where Yoda lives in Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back.
An auction of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds' property, set for next month, includes Fisher's personal shooting scripts for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
For the first time in many of our lifetimes, here is a Star Wars film being compared to A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, and we could not be more ready.
Early in "The Empire Strikes Back," the theme subtly underscores their flirtatious banter; in the final scene, it reaches a full swell, with the beauty and power of a Tchaikovsky ballet's apotheosis.
The new story picks up after the events of Empire Strikes Back, showing us what happened to the series' most beloved characters between the events of that and Return of the Jedi.
The moment Darth Vader looms over Luke Skywalker in the climax of The Empire Strikes Back and declares that he is Luke's father is one of the greatest twists in cinema history.
Though we love and worship this franchise because of what was accomplished in "Empire Strikes Back," if it weren't for "A New Hope," we would think much differently of the franchise today.
It is a second step in a trilogy, and the second step is always dark as in The Empire Strikes Back or the Wrath Of Khan, which are the examples you always get.
Han Solo aims to tell the story of what happened to its title character in the pocket of time between the original Star Wars movie and its first sequel, The Empire Strikes Back.
Billy Dee Williams will reprise his role as scoundrel Lando Calrissian, who was first seen in 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" and 1983's "Return of the Jedi," the Disney statement added.
This confidence, this fearlessness, is exactly why The Last Jedi succeeds better than any Star Wars movie since at least Return of the Jedi in 1983, if not Empire Strikes Back in 1980.
Drafthouse, which has locations across the country, will show A New Hope (1977), Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) as individual features and in a back-to-back marathon.
We're supposed to hate Negan now, and the reason people should want to keep watching is to see what type of revenge Rick strikes back with, no matter how many seasons it takes.
He endured extreme temperatures inside the robotic prop during filming, but returned to play the robot again in the Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, as well as the later prequel trilogy.
Which is not to say that Kasdan (who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens) is slavishly following the plot of a bunch of old books.
A year later, he said Lawrence Kasdan, the Oscar-nominated writer of "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Raiders of The Lost Ark," asked Mr. Eller to perform at his young son's birthday party.
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Before appearing as a minor villain in The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, Boba Fett first appeared in an animated sequence during the much maligned Star Wars Holiday Special — seriously!
After creating the Seattle International Film Festival at a young age with his childhood friend Darryl Macdonald, Ireland was able to secure world premieres for films like Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and Poltergeist.
Episode Eight will fit into the Empire Strikes Back slot for the franchise, the film that takes our likable, plucky heroes from the Force Awakens and plunges them into something darker and more perilous.
The tense standoff in Bespin's Cloud City near the end of The Empire Strikes Back is powered by a recurring, bolero-like rhythm through which the themes of Vader, Yoda, and more are incorporated.
Otherwise, the main Crash games have been remastered in a collection (containing the first game, Cortex Strikes Back, and Warped) released on the PS4, PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, each for around $30.
We get the barest of glimpses into Chewie's inner self when he mournfully yowls after the Rebels lock up Hoth's Echo Base for the night before Han returns with Luke in Empire Strikes Back.
It turned Luke Skywalker into a Yoda-like hermit living in exile on an island, cut off from the Force, it separated the main characters, much like "The Empire Strikes Back," and divided fans.
Fantasy and sci-fi movie geeks are about blow serious wads of cash on memorabilia ... including Harry Potter's actual Hogwarts acceptance letter and an X-Wing (miniature) model used to shoot 'Empire Strikes Back.
One year ago, the outdoor apparel company fired up all of Star Wars fandom with a line of winter coats inspired by Luke Skywalker's, Princess Leia's, and Han Solo's Hoth costumes from Empire Strikes Back.
As an added bonus, the heads on the original Han and Leia figures spin around to offer a variant look with air respirators, for re-creating scenes like the mynock attack in Empire Strikes Back.
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Here's hoping that the sequel learns the lessons of the first movie, and (to make one more Star Wars analogy) follows in the footsteps of The Empire Strikes Back instead of Attack of the Clones.
The film explains how Lando comes to run Cloud City in the Empire Strikes Back, but production is held up for three months while Disney works out how to tastefully handle the multiple sex scenes.
Yet if "The Empire Strikes Back" stands as the defining chapter in the "Star Wars" saga, as second movies go, "Last Jedi" ranks closer to the "Attack of the Clones" end of the gene pool.
Those three initial movies—1977's Star Wars, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, and 1983's Return of the Jedi—changed cinema and formed the basis of a quasi-religion for innumerable diehard fans.
You know I'm right, even if you insist on making a case for "The Empire Strikes Back" or "The Last Jedi," to name the two installments that are usually cited as the best individual movies.
Kinsey said she had a tough time choosing, but her list includes Meet the Parents, the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice, Out of Africa, The Matrix, The Empire Strikes Back, Shakespeare in Love, and Elizabeth.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A rare "Star Wars" prop piece, Luke Skywalker's DL-44 blaster used in the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back", is up for sale at auction with a minimum bid of $200,000.
To be sure, the Star Wars saga does have its share of intrigue and backstabbing among friends (think of Lando Calrissian turning over Han Solo and company to Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back).
Not only did "The Last Jedi" make sure Yoda looked more like himself from the original trilogy movies, but Frank Oz, who puppeteered the character in "The Empire Strikes Back," returned to voice the character.
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But Season 2, which opened with our heroes facing Darth Vader and reintroduced the giant AT-ATs you might remember from Empire Strikes Back in the next episode, is reaching around 1.3 million viewers an episode.
Fisher returned for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and appeared in a number of other films and television shows, such as When Harry Met Sally and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters.
Realism has never really been the goal of Battlefront's multiplayer mode — when the first game launched, Return of the Jedi Luke was the one that would spawn in the Hoth battle from The Empire Strikes Back.
But although she returned for both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, in 20133 and 1983 respectively, she followed her creative muse in directions away from the mega-stardom she briefly flirted with.
We see this happen to Han down the road: Lando turns him and his friends over to the Empire in The Empire Strikes Back, and he'll be killed by his own son in The Force Awakens.
I've read that Irvin Kershner, director of The Empire Strikes Back, only wanted to interact with Peter Mayhew when he was fully in costume, that he wanted to see him as a Wookiee, not an actor.
Because while The Force Awakens was able to rest on its laurels by essentially remixing A New Hope, The Last Jedi has a far more formidable task: it needs to not remake The Empire Strikes Back.
The Nationals will carry on with journeyman Jose Lobaton, whose main skills on offense are having a name reminiscent of a background character from The Empire Strikes Back and doing an impression of a switch-hitter.
My personal lightsaber unicorn was a high-end version of Luke Skywalker's weapon from The Empire Strikes Back, but that's just a drop in the bucket when looking at what the community offers as a whole.
Murphy has recreated the specific variants of the saber as seen in the original Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Force Awakens, and some of his recent work sold on eBay for over $15,000.
There is as much Macguffin-hunting and audacious double-crossing as you'd expect from Lawrence Kasdan, the guy who began his career penning Raiders of the Lost Ark before doing a rewrite on Empire Strikes Back.
While he partnered with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi scribe Lawrence Kasdan on the first film in the trilogy, this time Abrams will write the script with Argo Oscar-winner Chris Terrio.
It's been known for some time that Battlefront would have four different DLC packs, with the first two focusing on the Outer Rim — think Jabba the Hutt's palace — and Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back.
The towering sci-fi vehicle, which first made an appearance in the Empire Strikes Back, stands two-stories tall and has brought hordes of people to Meyer's house to snap photos to share on social media.
She partied with the Rolling Stones during the making of "The Empire Strikes Back," hosted "Saturday Night Live" and had romantic relationships with Dan Aykroyd (with whom she appeared in "The Blues Brothers") and Paul Simon.
There's Luke's famous loss of his hand to Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, or Anakin Skywalker's various lost limbs over the course of the prequels as he loses more and more of his humanity.
Personally, I was a big fan of The Force Awakens, repeatedly refuted those who labeled it a "remake," and I now rate it higher than all but two Star Wars films (the original and Empire Strikes Back).
The core question of any reboot is one of balance: how do you make a movie that satisfies older fans, who grew accustomed to dark plots like The Empire Strikes Back, while still reaching new, younger fans?
The intro, detailed by Hamill in an interview with The Sun, would have featured Luke Skywalker's severed hand floating through space, his lightsaber still clutched, just as it was at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.
Abrams wrote The Force Awakens with Star Wars vet Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote both Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi back in the day (he's also writing the upcoming Han Solo film with son Jon).
The Congressional Leadership Fund's (CLF) ad — titled "The Truth Strikes Back" in a reference to "Star Wars" — features clips of Ossoff at a college party dressed up as Han Solo, a popular character from the movie franchise.
Counting Top Gun, GoldenEye and The Empire Strikes Back as some of his favorite films, Swift is drawn towards sci-fi but is "excited to work with anybody who's all about the project they're on," he says.
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Jason Kapalka opened his review with an anecdote about a Star Wars-obsessed friend who had recently dropped a couple hundred dollars on an unopened and charmless Star Wars action figure from the Empire Strikes Back era.
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Instead of power at only one joint or, perhaps a cable-based system, LUKE (named for the robotic hand Luke Skywalker receives at the end of The Empire Strikes Back) features motors at the shoulder, elbow and hand.
If you somehow managed to exist on this very Earth without knowing that there are twist endings in films such as Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Fight Club and Planet of the Apes, um, now you know.
Their armor is a weird mix of various Imperial armors: the helmet is a lot like that of the shoretroopers from Rogue One, while the chest looks a lot like that of a snowtrooper from Empire Strikes Back.
PT, that didn't stop fans from weighing in on the tone of the movie, which has drawn inevitable comparisons to the second (and most critically acclaimed) film in George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back.
The costume going up for auction is one of a handful of Vader outfits produced in 1979 by the team of "Star Wars" costume designer John Mollo in London for the movie "The Empire Strikes Back," Bonhams said.
A clapperboard—that iconic, black-and-white sign used by filmmakers to sync up audio and visuals—from Jaws went for £84,000 ($109,326), while one from Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back sold for £783,000 ($42,950).
Empire Strikes Back viewers may wonder whether Yoda felt anything when Obi-Wan died at his former padawan's hands, or whether Lando knew his ship, the Millennium Falcon, was involved when he learned about the Death Star's destruction.
The Last Jedi is supposed to be analogous to The Empire Strikes Back, but it actually has more in common with Return of the Jedi, which most Star Wars fans consider the weakest film of the original trilogy.
Two weeks ago, Braun launched an Indiegogo campaign for The Empire Strikes Back XXX, asking fans to chip in $500k—and promising that, should the project be fully funded, the resulting film will be available for free forever.
The official machete order is: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Attack of The Clones, Revenge Of The Sith, and Return Of The Jedi — but has gotten more complicated with the release of Rogue One and Solo.
" He also tweeted what he said was a response to those who do not believe Mr. Sanders's high poll numbers: a clip from "The Empire Strikes Back" of Yoda telling a disbelieving Luke, "That is why you fail.
If, on the other hand, his piece is just another riff on why every bobo is bowling alone, then screw it — let's wait on someone else to pen a better-written sequel think piece, "When Beauty Strikes Back."
Growing up, I can remember spending a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be frozen in carbonite, the way Han Solo was after being betrayed by Lando on Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back.
Jason Wingreen, a character actor best known for playing the genial bartender Harry on the hit sitcom "All in the Family" and for voicing the bounty hunter Boba Fett in the film "The Empire Strikes Back," died on Dec.
It takes just one minute and seven seconds to flash through events from both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but it's an absolute delight — and uses original cast lines from Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
The auction house said the iconic mask and helmet was worn on the set of "The Empire Strikes Back" by British actor David Prowse, who physically played the villain for the first three films in the sci-fi saga.
LONDON (Reuters) - A jacket worn by Harrison Ford as Han Solo in the Star Wars film "The Empire Strikes Back" is expected to sell for up to 2000 million pounds ($270 million) at an auction of movie memorabilia on Thursday.
The final page of the new book shows six side-by-side comparisons of the Christin/Mézieres comics and stills from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, and Revenge of the Sith.
The best possible tribute I can pay to Gareth Edwards, and the writer team of Chris Weitz and Gary Whitta, is this: it is actually legitimate to ask whether Rogue One is as good a movie as Empire Strikes Back.
I maintained the lie for as long as I could, but by the time I walked out, I had to admit that I loved Rogue One — more than Force Awakens, more than any Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back.
The Force has a strange, mystic resonance in A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back because it was inherently unknowable; in The Phantom Menace it's robbed of power by reducing it to a cellular count metric from a blood sample.
Writer/director Rian Johnson packs the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga with genuine surprises of all kinds, which all amount to a thrilling, emotional, and funny film that is easily the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back.
While the character has been a fan favorite since his big-screen introduction in The Empire Strikes Back — he first appeared in the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special — as far as movie franchise canon goes, there isn't much to go on.
By the time Empire Strikes Back started filming in 1979, the 21-year-old was coping by drinking, partying hard — the Rolling Stones were regular visitors to her London flat during the shoot — and, she later freely admitted, abusing cocaine.
A biomedical engineering team at the University of Utah created the "LUKE Arm," named in honor of the robotic hand Luke Skywalker obtains in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" after Darth Vader slices off his hand with a lightsaber.
I went into it with all these crazy expectations like, 'this is what they're going to answer', 'this is where I see it going, this is going to be the Empire Strikes Back of this series…' I expected that too.
"Ay yo aye, immigrants we don't like that/ Na they don't play, British empire strikes back/ They beating us like 808's and high hats/ At our own game of invasion, but this ain't Iraq," Ahmed (as Riz MC) raps.
Chuck tries to nail Axe by placing a mole inside the firm, Axe catches on and volleys back with a devious riposte, Chuck steals Wendy's session notes to gain secrets, Axe strikes back with threats, and so on and so on.
The leading lot of the sale is the jacket worn by Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, in the 2200 film "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back", which is expected to fetch between 3003,2300 to 2000 million pounds ($22011,350-$1.29 million).
" In 1940, Isip illustrated a key scene from "Martian Quest," a space western that marked the debut of Leigh Brackett, the Queen of Space Opera, who achieved even greater fame decades later for her work on "The Empire Strikes Back.
Previous efforts included the multimedia project Shadows of the Empire, which saw a novel, comic books, toys, a video game, and even a soundtrack released to tell a storyline set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
If Obi-Wan appeared to Luke as a Force Ghost on Hoth at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back, there's nothing to stop Luke from appearing anywhere in the galaxy — especially when there's a Force-sensitive nephew he promised to haunt.
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And there is something about the way he strikes back at women who anger him that seems to resonate for some men — and which, at least so far, has not cost him the support of the women who backed him.
Arcade1Up, known for its modern iterations of classic arcade games on huge LCD screens, has worked its magic on a Star Wars model with classic games based on A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
So you'd think when it came to the Force Awakens sequel The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson might take care to avoid all comparisons between his film and that best-loved Star Wars sequel, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.
Empire Strikes Back ended with the Empire winning, Han Solo being taken by Jabba the Hutt, and Luke Skywalker facing his darkest moment, and the next film more or less reversed all of that over the course of its running time.
And the film was co-written by Empire Strikes Back and Force Awakens screenwriting genius Lawrence Kasdan, so we'll at least get to see Han and Lando's early history penned by the guy who brought the pair together in the first place.
Kasdan, the Hollywood honcho who wrote "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back," most recently co-wrote "Solo: A Star Wars Story," the underperforming spinoff  that has led executives to wonder openly about the possibility of franchise fatigue.
Though Kurtz's role has been somewhat diminished in official Lucasfilm history, it is undeniable that he  guided the company's three most influential and well-received films — American Graffiti, Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back — to their stellar success on the screen.
The force-sensitive character Ezra Bridger has an experience in the temple involving visions, a lightsaber duel, and the endangerment of someone close to him, quite similar to Luke Skywalker's vision in the spooky cave on Dagobah in The Empire Strikes Back.
A number of different manufacturers are in the midst of creating flash replicas for both the original and Empire Strikes Back versions, as well as the stunt saber used in Return of the Jedi (you can't say these fans haven't done their research).
Planets locked in perpetual winter provide a great background for adventure stories, from the ice world Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, to Gethen in Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, to the dystopian vision of Earth in Snowpiercer.
But deeper behind the scenes, J.J. Abrams, the director of "The Force Awakens," and his co-writer, Lawrence Kasdan, a writer of "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," were realizing their ever-expanding script could not accommodate Luke's story line.
The leading lot of the sale is the jacket worn by Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, in the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back," which is expected to fetch between 500,000 and 1 million pounds (from about $647,0003 to $1.29 million).
LONDON, Sept 2300 (Reuters) - A jacket worn by Harrison Ford as Han Solo in the Star Wars film "The Empire Strikes Back" is expected to sell for up to 2000 million pounds ($270 million) at an auction of movie memorabilia on Thursday.
But, while the praise is deserved, the story of Disney and the internet is more like "The Empire Finally Strikes Back": The company has been trying for 25 years to tame the online medium, and most of its efforts have fallen flat.
Each of the eight Skywalker Saga titles — A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens — will be available to purchase individually or as a box set.
Lucasfilm and Columbia have previously partnered to release movie-themed jackets with Rogue One, but last year, the outerwear company released a limited line of 500 royal blue jackets inspired by what the film crew wore while filming The Empire Strikes Back.
Before you can even wonder which ship sails during that swell, there's a heart-wrenching snippet of "Han Solo and the Princess" from Empire Strikes Back, cut off by the sinister twist on the main titles that we've been hearing in those trailers.
Back in 2015, The Force Awakens was also originally supposed to be released in the summer, but was moved to a December release after Abrams took over screenwriting duties with Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) and needed more time.
But the history of the 40-year-old franchise has proved that trying to actually make one of these things puts the "ugh" in Ugnaught: The team behind The Empire Strikes Back, for example, underwent off-screen accidents, near-bankruptcy, and a screenwriter's death.
You don't need to be stranded in the icy wastes of Hoth to enjoy this Empire Strikes Back-inspired sleeping bag; whether you're staying close to home or venturing out into the freezing weather, it never hurts to keep a snuggly Tauntaun close by.
Lord and Miller could not get on the same page with the people running Star Wars – specifically, producer Kathleen Kennedy (who's also president of Lucasfilm) and co-writer / executive producer Lawrence Kasdan (whose relationship with Star Wars dates back to The Empire Strikes Back).
I've since joined the 501st Legion (a worldwide costuming group) and constructed several other trooper costumes: another (film-accurate) stormtrooper from The Empire Strikes Back, one from The Clone Wars animated show, a Phase One Clone Trooper from prequel film Attack of the Clones.
But Billy Dee, then 76, felt a strong sense of possession over his most famous character —the one he had played not just in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but also in a half-dozen videogames, Mad TV and Robot Chicken.
Here's where things stand now: The Empire Strikes Back: 294% The Force Awakens: 294% A New Hope: 93% Rogue One: 85% Return of the Jedi: 80% Revenge of the Sith: 79% Attack of the Clones: 66% The Phantom Menace: 55% Poe Dameron, not standing by.
A longtime advocate for claymation, stop-motion, and other analog techniques, the Oscar-winning visual effects producer is the brilliant mind behind illusions like the holo-chess scene in Star Wars, AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the animated sequences in Robocop.
Mewtwo Strikes Back is sort of a CGI remake (with a few changes) of Pokémon: The First Movie, which first came out in Japan in 1998 and tell the story of the creation of Mewtwo and Mewtwo's own struggle with grappling with his existence.
Piper Jaffray analyst Erinn Murphy thinks it will get a boost from new Pokémon toys this year thanks to the release of the "Pokémon Detective Pikachu" movie in May and the animated "Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution," which will be released in Japan in July.
If they do, it's because of his Star Wars connections: Hamilton was the husband of Leigh Brackett, space opera queen and author of the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back; he also happened to be the first guy to use a "laser sword" anywhere in fiction.
Not only did Lucasfilm drop the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi during the convention (it's above, and our breakdown of its similarities to Empire Strikes Back is here), the franchise's cast and crew revealed a bunch of other news over the weekend too.
It was impossible for them to anticipate the twists and turns to come in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (to say nothing of the prequel trilogy, the current sequel series, the A Star Wars Story spinoffs, and all the supplementary canon material).
On Star Wars, Lucas allowed friends to rewrite large chunks of the dialogue, but by the time it came to the prequels, not even his Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi co-writer Lawrence Kasdan could be persuaded to help the creator craft his vision.
The dialogue is peppered with movie and pop-cultural references — at one point, Spider-Man draws inspiration from "a really old movie" called "The Empire Strikes Back" — and there is even a sly joke about the proliferation of "enhanced" battlers of evil and world-threatening events.
It was on the basis of "The Return" that he enlisted Mr. Kershner (his instructor and mentor at the University of Southern California) to direct the second, more mystical and darker installment of the "Star Wars" saga, "The Empire Strikes Back" — or at least that's the legend.
In the movies: Mr. Williams's love theme for Han Solo and Princess Leia recurs throughout "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back," inching to the fore as their relationship evolves from teasing flirtation to a full-on declaration of love — complete with a passionate swell in the music.
He joined the franchise for its second installment, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, and again in Return of the Jedi in 1983 before Donald Glover played a younger version of the galaxy's slickest smuggler in the spin-off, Solo: A Star Wars Story, released last year.
The filmmaker mounted those six lenses in pairs on a vertical PVC pipe with a stabilizing weight at its base, so that the invention resembled a kind of slimmed-down, handheld version of the probe droid that appears on the planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.
He had ample access to Darth Vader's DNA and could easily have cloned Anakin Skywalker  in attempt to make a second "chosen one," or he could have retrieved the hand Luke lost in The Empire Strikes back to make a clone of Luke for the same reasons.
If you look back all the way to 1980, to the earliest reviews and reactions to The Empire Strikes Back, now almost universally acclaimed as the best Star Wars film, you'll find lots and lots of people talking about what a disappointment the film was compared to its predecessor.
I'd argue that Sir Alec Guinness is a more iconic version of the character simply because A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back are far more iconic than any of the prequels, but just in terms of sheer screen time McGregor wins, and it's not even close.
WATCH: CNN Launches New Series The Movies Executive Produced by Tom Hanks The show, which will air in six parts, focuses on different decades, beginning with the 1980s and explores the films that made the decade such as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, T. and The Breakfast Club.
The technical wizardry augments these scenes, as do the musical cues incorporated by composer John Powell, weaving in snippets of John Williams' earlier themes -- most notably from "The Empire Strikes Back" -- in a way that helps recapture the spirit of the original trilogy, at least during certain key moments.
If we can't do that, the industry will continue to shrink—and we won't get to see a pornified version of The Empire Strikes Back (let alone The Return of the Jedi, or a prequel series with long, complicated speeches about the role jizzichlorians play in the Force).
The lumbering, four-legged armored battle vehicle is familiar to Star Wars fans new and old – first for its pivotal appearance in the Hoth battle scenes from Empire Strikes Back, then for its reappearance on Scarif defending the Imperial archives from a small team of rogue rebel soldiers.
Perhaps most troubling is the fact that Trump does not seem to be at all concerned about his lack of friends and allies, nor for that matter has he expressed any real plan of response beyond a tweeted threat of retaliation against 52 Iranian targets if Iran strikes back.
My intent in constructing The Last Jedi was to bring it around to a point of satisfaction at the end, although in some ways because it was the second film in a trilogy — if you think about The Empire Strikes Back, that's unsatisfying specifically at the end as well.
We saw it when she watched the Death Star destroy her home world of Alderaan in A New Hope, we saw it when she lost Han Solo in both The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens, and we see it every time she looks at her young mentees.
"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) "Star Wars" is a landmark movie, but it wouldn't be the "Episode IX" franchise that it is without a sensational sequel that remains the best film in the series and which dramatically raised the stakes in the "I am your father" history of the Skywalker family.
Those images, among others in the long-awaited first official trailer for Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi, suggest that Rian Johnson's sequel will have a darker, more somber feel than 2015's The Force Awakens, just like The Empire Strikes Back had in comparison with the original movie.
Though the exoplanet is about the same age as Earth -- 4.4 billion years old -- it's 3,700 light-years away and has mass, radius and gas composition comparable to those of Jupiter (or of Bespin, home of Cloud City in "Empire Strikes Back," if we're sticking with the "Star Wars" comparison).
There have been rumors of a massive new Star Wars set based on Echo Base from Empire Strikes Back for ages now, but they've finally been confirmed: Lego have just announced a gigantic new set jam packed with so much goodness even the smell of Tauntaun insides couldn't ruin it.
Given that foundation, Brick and Looper writer-director Rian Johnson had a few obvious options with The Last Jedi: continue the trend and remix The Empire Strikes Back into a 2017 version, or buck the trend, move sharply away from the legacy content, and push the series away from familiar places.
But the character seems to be a case of the filmmakers wanting to have their cake and eat it, too: Emma is strong, refuses to back down, and strikes back when men in the film presume she couldn't possibly be adept with a rifle (spoiler: she's really good with a rifle).
As the person behind a Twitter account called Star Wars Visual Comparison, Stewart is a kind of unofficial keeper of apocrypha, of the sometimes subtle, sometimes extraordinary changes wrought by their makers upon three Star Wars movies: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Return of the Jedi.
A collection of rare Rolls-Royces, including vehicles used by Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana, will be auctioned off in the UK. -- The jacket worn by Harrison Ford in the Star Wars film, "The Empire Strikes Back," could sell for $1 million when it hits the auction block in September.
Had he held onto them a little longer, he might have blazed a genuinely new trail, shaken the franchise from its lingering sense of rote repetition, and seared a traumatic-but-awesome experience into the heads of a new generation of viewers, just as The Empire Strikes Back once did.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mr. Lord and Mr. Miller's approach to the Han Solo tale was met with disapproval by Lawrence Kasdan, who was a writer on "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," and who also, with his son Jon Kasdan, wrote the Han Solo script.
Look for: Potatoes may be the last thing on your mind after consuming what feels like a five-pound bag all on your own, but if you make it to The Empire Strikes Back, start up a debate about whether or not one of the asteroids was really just a potato.
There's Soylent Green, but also Luke's rations in Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back, and the emergency algae cakes in Battlestar Galactica, and the dehydrated tablets that fuel the food synthesizers in Star Trek: The Original Series, and the brown lumps that, in Firefly, are worth killing for.
New York-based School Of Visual Arts motion design student Kurt Rauffer took what is arguably the best of the Star Wars franchise, The Empire Strikes Back, and gave it a title sequence that is immediately evocative of the slick, design heavy James Bond opening title sequences we know and love.
This one also picks up after Empire Strikes Back, but it focuses on the Dark Lord of the Sith as he deals with the aftermath of his "I am your father" mic drop moment and sets out to punish those who hid from him the existence of Anakin Skywalker's only son.
Paternity reveals weren't a new concept when The Empire Strikes Back came out, but Vader's confession remains the most enduring example of the trope because its near-perfect execution ensures that audiences focus on what it means for the story instead of the awkward reality that Darth Vader got someone pregnant.
"Ever since I was a little kid I would read comic books and [I] grew up on sci-fi," the Republican presidential contender said, recollecting a time when he waited three hours in line with his father to see the premier of the Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back.
The ending of The Empire Strikes Back is frequently cited in this regard, but I could just as easily include several story beats in everything from Mad Max: Fury Road to The Last Jedi to Marvel's own Black Panther as creating fantastical situations that nevertheless were grounded in real human feeling.
Everyone knows that The Empire Strikes Back is better than A New Hope, and we have a good feeling about this year's Force Friday II. We've already played with the best and coolest stuff that'll be available in stores and online starting Friday, September 23, and we're delighted to spill the beans.
Billy Dee Williams took a trip down memory lane on Wednesday, sharing "one of my favorite photos" on Twitter: A snap featuring his Star Wars costar nervously looking towards the ground as he shook hands with Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, at the London premiere of The Empire Strikes Back in 219.
And I still can't look at Saturn's moon Minas without hearing Alec Guinness' voice in my head, warning me 'that's no moon ...' " But Hurt said that astronomers and artists such as himself are still trying to get past the "physically meaningless" representation of an asteroid field in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
With its scope limited to one battle from the Empire Strikes Back, this film-within-a-film resorts to a cinéma vérité style that has viewers watch for two excruciating hours as Dak wakes up, brushes his teeth, visits the restroom, and pulls on his flight suit ahead of his inevitable demise.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directing the movie, which will depict Lando in his formative years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy's underworld — years before the events involving Han, Leia, and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and his rise to Rebel hero in Return of the Jedi.
And at least in the case of Arndt, Lucasfilm had replacement writers ready to roll: in the same breath as the company announced his departure, it also revealed that Lawrence Kasdan (co-writer of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) would step in, co-writing Force Awakens with director J.J. Abrams.
Said the even more venerable New York Times reviewer: I'm not as bothered by the film's lack of resolution as I am about my suspicion that I really don't care ... It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot.
There were older fans who thought Empire Strikes Back was the only good movie, younger fans who thought the podracing in Phantom Menace was wizard, fans who thought Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith should have been edited differently, and critics who retroactively decided the whole series was just embarrassing.
Rian Johnson says that there's going to be some structural similarities with The Empire Strikes Back, given the multiple, parallel storylines: Rey is off training with a grumpy Jedi Master, the Resistance is having some real trouble, all while Finn and company are dispatched on a mission to a casino metropolis called Canto Bight.
And while the adults are taking their time responding, the missing kid's trio of friends (who spend a lot of time referencing "The Empire Strikes Back") and his teenage brother (Charlie Heaton) join the quest to find him, with the arrival of Eleven yielding some pubescent confusion but also a helpful dose of psychic muscle.
Although some are bound to be disappointed that the set looks a little too "playset-y" for a high-end Star Wars set—it's almost like a mashup of a bunch of smaller Hoth sets Lego have released over the years—as an attempt to encapsulate an iconic part of Empire Strikes Back, it does a pretty grand job.
Lord and Miller originally wanted to make a much more freeform, improv-flavored comedy in the style of their other films, and when Howard came on board, he reportedly steered Solo back in the direction of the script written by Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and his son, Jonathan.
She named it, all of it: the too-strong pot she smoked with Harrison Ford during the filming of Star Wars; the cocaine problem she brought to Empire Strikes Back (she had plenty of jokes about snow on the Hoth set); and yes, the booze that causes just as many problems as any illegal or prescription drug.
Wielding blaster pistols, piloting futuristic vehicles and, to her occasional chagrin, wearing strange hairdos and a revealing metal bikini, she reprised the role in three more films — "The Empire Strikes Back" in 1980, "Return of the Jedi" in 1983 and, 32 years later, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," by which time Leia had become a hard-bitten general.
The Calabasas, California-based auction house Profiles in History confirmed the sale to EW. Constructed of aluminum, steel, and fiberglass elements, the droid measures 43 x 29.5 x 20 inches and was pieced together over the years from original components used in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, and Attack of the Clones.
Set in a future where vaguely described wars and natural disasters have destroyed civilization, La Lisière tells the story of Hama (played by Ouidad Elma), a young woman who lives with her father Selim (Saïd Amadis, who in a neat bit of trivia did the voice dub for James Earl Jones in the French language version of The Empire Strikes Back).
So for me, The Last Jedi falls right behind The Empire Strikes Back and maybe the original film in providing the thrills and the heartbreak, the heroism and villainy, and the romance and betrayal that makes these films such a treat even for those of us who can't name all the planets or the alien species or even the Empire's flunkies.
We see this time and time again in the films, like when he returns to save Luke Skywalker over the Death Star in A New Hope, stands by his friends against the Empire in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and reluctantly returns to the Resistance long after he's gone back to his old habits in The Force Awakens.
The film's screenwriter, Lawrence Kasdan (who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi) had also been floated as a possibility — and the Hollywood Reporter suggested that Kasdan was the real reason the pair left — but it's unclear if the union rules of the Directors Guild of America would have permitted him to take over.
I don't subscribe to the illiteracy theory since there's a scene in Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo clearly reads Lando Calrissian's name off a console on the Millennium Falcon, but Ryan Britt is right to point out that it is super weird that in Episode I, Queen Amidala has trouble "proving" to the Galactic Senate that Naboo has been invaded.
It's no accident that Disney properties have come up twice in this report, and here they arise for a third time: walking out of the tunnel on your own two feet, surrounded by all that swirling wind, is like nothing so much as walking out the tailchute of Cloud City, where Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker talked family values in Empire Strikes Back.
There had been no major rumblings of difficulty on the set of the young Han Solo movie, which stars Alden Ehrenreich as a 20-something version of Harrison Ford's infamous smuggler, Donald Glover in the role of his duplicitous frenemy Lando Calrissian — originated in The Empire Strikes Back by Billy Dee Williams — and Joonas Suotamo taking over Chewbacca from Peter Mayhew.
Rogue One is a movie about war, inspired as much by Saving Private Ryan as Empire Strikes Back, and from the emphasis on practical effects — Edwards's director of photography points out in the clip that shooting with real effects changes the way they compose shots — to the sets themselves it's clear Edwards is going for a fresh take on familiar material.
Starting with 1900's The Enchanted Drawing and running all the way up through 2016's Kubo and the Two Strings, short video is a fascinating look at how the technique has evolved over the years, and include some of cinema's best-known moments, from King Kong atop the Empire State Building to the AT-AT attack in The Empire Strikes Back.
As The Times reported in "University of Chicago Strikes Back Against Campus Political Correctness": The anodyne welcome letter to incoming freshmen is a college staple, but this week the University of Chicago took a different approach: It sent new students a blunt statement opposing some hallmarks of campus political correctness, drawing thousands of impassioned responses, for and against, as it caromed around cyberspace.
The commercials aired on Cartoon Network for months, offering a fantasy that was too appealing for me to pass up: Supposedly, with a sturdy hard drive, an elementary understanding of computer science, and my own recess-honed Lego skills, a 22026-year-old like me could construct and program his very own AT-ST mech from The Empire Strikes Back all by himself.
The early script writer was too slow While the script-writing duties were originally handed to Michael Arnt, the screenwriter's typical 2-to-3-year writing process ultimately, according to Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, mesh with their need to get the film out by 2015, so they handed the reins over to Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back.
Yes, the prequels sucked, The Force Awakens was a glossy retread of A New Hope, and Rogue One was a flawed but interesting addition to the universe, but in our haste to hold The Empire Strikes Back up as a near-perfect piece of cinema and compare all subsequent films to it, I believe Return of the Jedi (1983) receives short shrift among Star Wars fans.
The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air," he wrote, before going on to damn "The Empire Strikes Back" with faint praise by comparing it to the first "Star Wars": "It's not as fresh and funny and surprising and witty, but it is nice and inoffensive and, in a way that no one associated with it need be ashamed of.
FROM PEN: 23 Oscar Nominees Reveal The Untold Stories Behind Their Films Whoever takes over the movie will inherit a project that has already undergone most, if not all, of its principal photography, and it's not clear yet how much of the movie, written by Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan (The First Time), will be reshot — if any.
FROM PEN: Stunning Visuals and Compelling Storylines Make FX's 'Legion' a Must Watch Whoever takes over the movie will inherit a project that has already undergone most, if not all, of its principal photography, and it's not clear yet how much of the movie, written by Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon Kasdan (The First Time), will be reshot — if any.
Mr. Mollo had a long career in the movies, creating costumes for Richard Attenborough's epic "Gandhi" (21968), which brought him his second Oscar; the Revolutionary War drama "Revolution" (22003), with Al Pacino; "Cry Freedom" (1987), with Denzel Washington as the South African freedom fighter Steve Biko; "Chaplin" (1992), with Robert Downey Jr. in the title role; and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), the second installment in the first "Star Wars" trilogy.
Most Republicans have no desire to lead a committee whose central charge would be investigating a Republican administration — particularly one led by the volatile President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, who strikes back fiercely at critics.
When J.J. Abrams and writers Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt rebooted the Star Wars film franchise in 19403 with The Force Awakens — the first in a sequel trilogy, following the original Star Wars trifecta of 1977's A New Hope, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, and 1983's Return of the Jedi — they found a fairly winning formula that split the difference between respecting fans' love for the original trilogy, and nudging the franchise into the future.
Consider some of what has happened in America since that historic election night as the empire strikes back: People young and old are physically beaten and assaulted in public for wearing Trump-supporting clothing Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE, with the support of Congress, has hijacked the criminal justice system to launch an inquisition based on a phony dossier.
"Star Wars" (22019) — 2017%"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) — 82%"Return of the Jedi" (1983) — 58%"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999) — 51%"Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" (20193) — 54%"Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" (2005) — 68%"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015) — 81% "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016) — 65%"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017) — 85%"Solo: A Star Wars Story" (2018) — 62%"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" (2019) — 53%
I love the idea of throwing an Empire Strikes Back-like training session into the middle of a Penelope Spheeris-style squat-punk saga, but on Stranger Things—which, for all its metaphysical elements, has always been firmly grounded in suburban, Spielbergian wonder—those elements felt like they'd been teleported from a different pop-culture dimension (also, playing Bon Jovi's "Runaway" during a child-runaway sequence was painfully winky, even for this show; to quote another long-haired metallurgist who broke out in 1984, there's a fine line between stupid and clever).
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