The Quotable Making of ESB

"Kersh is worrying primarily about the specific moment or scene he has to deal with, and what I’m constantly keeping my eye on is the whole picture and how it’s all fitting together."

-George Lucas in Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

"Currently, the action is in the Cloud City corridors and dining room, the sequence in which Han and the princess, while guests of Lando Calrissian, are led into the presence of Darth Vader and the most dangerous of bounty hunters, Boba Fett."

Happy birthday to the legendary Lawrence Kasdan!

Kasdan co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. He also wrote the first Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

May the Force be with you!

Arnold: Does that worry you?

Hamill: Well, it shows they're not going to let me become what Sean Connery was to the James Bond movies. If, for some reason, I don't want to do the next one, they could easily discover a long-lost sister or brother of Luke's living in another part of the galaxy.

Alan Arnold: Do you feel you, too, could be written out?

Mark Hamill: It's already been taken care of. Ben Kenobi says to Yoda: "Luke is our only hope." Yoda shakes his head: "No," he says, "no, there is another." So, you see, George could write me out.

"Thus the story unfolds, out of sequence, unchronologically as is the manner of most films in the making. The bits of the jigsaw puzzle are being carved for piecing together later."

-Alan Arnold, "Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back"

Me and the three folks who read my posts

"Slim as a stripling, her features agile and aware, she had a hint of melancholy about her as if her celebrity were a cause for concern in someone who spurns a Hollywood-style image."

-Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of The Making of Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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I want someone to sync this to the audio of the carbon freezing scene from Empire Strikes Back

Empire strikes back is a Christmas movie because of snow, and awkward family conversations.

"If the comparison seems abstruse, it should be remembered that England was still the dominant culture and Dickens the supreme showman in mass medium of his time."

"Such impatient public clamor [for Star Wars to release in the UK] was unique in modern times. Indeed, for something comparable, we must consider the crowds that gathered dockside in Boston and New York to await arrival from England installments of The Pickwick Papers."

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Matte painting by the great Harrison Ellenshaw.

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Matte painting by the great Harrison Ellenshaw.

“You’ll be visited by three spirits”

The three spirits:

"The first script was just murder to write, just awful. It took me two years. Most of it was simply finding my way through that world. Now I’m much more immersed in the world. When I did the story for the second film, it was easier because it’s really part of the Star Wars story."
-George Lucas

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back & Kenner Star Wars Micro Collection

1982 JCPenney Christmas Catalog

Kenner Star Wars
1982 JCPenney Catalog

Some pics of the Millennium Falcon being build in Pembroke Dock, Wales in 1979 for ‘The Empire Strikes Back’.

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Polish poster for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, featuring a stoned-looking Yoda.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Polish poster

"But Kersh had lost interest again and was apparently intent on the sky again."

"It's been a unique experience to write down something how I thought it should be, explain to the director how it was supposed to be done, describe the ambience, & then have it come out completely different. It’s an interesting experience. I can now see why screenwriters go crazy."

-George Lucas

a man with a mustache is holding his fists up in the air in front of the word lando . ALT: a man with a mustache is holding his fists up in the air in front of the word lando .

The original "know a guy"

Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) British poster

"At the press conference, Kurtz announced principal photography would start the following Monday. He decribed The Empire Strikes Back as 'a new chapter in the Star Wars saga' because the intention in never to refer to it as a sequel because George Lucas stories do not have chronological sequence."

Leigh Brackett was born on this day 109 years ago. Brackett wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back and remains the only woman who has a writing credit on a Star Wars film.

"Who cares about Dickory Dock now? Childhood is not the same. For better or worse, there has been a cosmic growing. What will it be like in 1984?"
-'Once Upon A Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of Empire Strikes Back.'

"During his takes, [Alec Guinness's] gaze was unflinching, the eyes strong and sturdy, and a speech that in itself had no great profundity was given the ring of wisdom."

-Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of Empire Strikes Back