Sentences with phrase «empire strikes»
Kasdan has big shoes to fill; by the time his father, Lawrence, was 36, he had written The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Body Heat, The Big Chill, and Silverado, also directing the latter three.
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Ever since The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars and the cold have gone hand in hand.
The Empire Strikes Back of superhero movies.
The new film also features Glover stepping into a role closely associated with another actor: Billy Dee Williams played Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Abrams has also collaborated with Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, on the film's screenplay.
The end of The Empire Strikes Back and the deaths of Obi - Wan Kenobi and Yoda are a few examples on a much longer list.
The film starts off with Conan as a young lad (Sanz), orphaned at the hands of an evil sorcerer (James Earl Jones, The Empire Strikes Back), and is taken into slavery.
The website also offers potential story details for a film that's «changed significantly» since October, when Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back) replaced original screenwriter Michael Arndt.
Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller («The LEGO Movie»), written by Lawrence («The Empire Strikes Back») and Jon Kasdan and starring Alden Ehrenreich, the «Han Solo» anthology film will be released May 25, 2018.
Prequel to Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983).
Lucas would not have met Harrison Ford (The Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner), and cast him as Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and we would be without the largest box office star of all time.
Let me start by saying that The Last Jedi is nothing like The Empire Strikes Back.
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A batch of promotional images have arrived online for LEGO's 2018 Star Wars sets which includes Han Solo's Landspeeder, Imperial TIE Fighter, Kessel Run Millennium Falcon, Imperial Patrol Battle Pack from Solo: A Star Wars Story, a Jedi and Clone Troopers Battle Pack, Yoda's Hut from Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back, and -LSB-...]
A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi were some of my favorite films when I was a kid, and played a huge role in the development of my current love of cinema.
Kasdan was screenwriter on The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi.
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This could mean the rise of the First Order or leaving characters in dire situations (similar to The Empire Strikes Back).
The elder Kasdan previously wrote «Empire Strikes Back» and «The Force Awakens.»
Early in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, writer / director Rian Johnson's unenviable attempt to out - middle - trilogy The Empire Strikes Back, the film picks up immediately following the last frame of J.J. Abrams» The Force Awakens, with Rey silently offering Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber to him, the one he lost along with a hand in the final moments of - you guessed it - Empire.
It would be the same levels of anger if she told me that The Empire Strikes Back was the worst Star Wars film ever made.
As much as I wanted for Star Wars in its completeness to be the story of Anakin after seeing The Empire Strikes Back, it's really the story of Luke.
As a fan of the original trilogy I went in hoping it would live up to that feeling I got when I first watched Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back.
A good sign: Lawrence Kasdan, of Empire Strikes Back fame, co-wrote it.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner): OK, I'm guilty of heresy for not picking the first Star Wars, which George Lucas directed, but this sequel offers more fluid storytelling and is a much better film.
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The film comes from a screenplay by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan; Kawrence Kasdan previously wrote «The Empire Strikes Back» and «Return of the Jedi» and co-wrote «The Force Awakens» with J.J. Abrams.
Yes, I realize there are also other examples where the sequel bested the original, such as «The Godfather Part II,» «Superman II» and «The Empire Strikes Back,» but these are extremely few and far between.
The last thing anyone could've asked for in «The Last Jedi» was a carbon copy of «The Empire Strikes Back.»
Star Wars: Episode VII will be directed by J. J. Abrams (Super 8, Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek) and is being scripted by Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi).
It's also sure to please longtime fans of the franchise, who were first teased with the Millennium Falcon's backstory in 1980's «The Empire Strikes Back.»
Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky went on to shoot Leo the Last, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Empire Strikes Back, Mars Attacks!
But... he made something that critics, and fans, have been waiting on for over 30 years — a decent Star Wars film, and arguably the best Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back.
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The announcement notes that the «new film depicts 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.»»
Universal praise is already flooding in, with some touting it the best in the series since The Empire Strikes Back.
by Walter Chaw Matt Reeves's remarkable Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (hereafter Dawn) isn't the best sequel since The Empire Strikes Back, but it is the best sequel since The Dark Knight.
Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller («The LEGO Movie»), and written by Lawrence («The Empire Strikes Back») and Jon Kasdan, the «Han Solo» anthology film will be released May 25, 2018.
Franchise veteran Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, told ComicBook.com he was involved with a Han Solo spinoff before George Lucas sold the company.
If this second team - up is intended be the «Empire Strikes Back» - level middle chapter to a larger importance yet to come, then, by unwritten sequel rules, the raised stakes of heavy - and - grim - flavored implications are all completely allowed and welcome.
As we previously reported, Disney refused to move the film to 2016, and in order to meet the studio's time frame, Abrams teamed up with screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back) to handle the script.
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«Star Wars: The Last Jedi» A «Star Wars» movie for today, and the epic «Star Wars» movie «Star Wars» fans have craved since «The Empire Strikes Back.»
Much like Empire Strikes Back, this chapter looks particularly harrowing: Kylo Ren seems to be going through the motions, Poe Dameron appears much angrier, and, yes, we've got more Snoke.
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It seems unnecessary to report that the script — written by old pro Lawrence Kasdan, whose credits span from «The Empire Strikes Back» to «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» and his son Jonathan — shows us how Han first encounters the major people and items in the character's established lore.
With the aid of Little Miss Sunshine Oscar - winner Michael Arndt and, arguably more importantly, franchise returnee Lawrence Kasdan (a screenwriter on both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but also the writer / director of complex, character - driven genre fair like The Big Chill, Silverado and Body Heat), Abrams accomplishes his task.
And with Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote «The Empire Strikes Back» and «The Force Awakens,» and his son Jonathan on board as co-screenwriters, «Solo» is well - grounded in the «Star Wars» mythos.
The story, written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan (who also co-wrote the scripts of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) and Michael Arndt, features some smart self - referential moments with refreshing efforts to ground the characters deeper than ever into this faraway galaxy, from a long time ago, without forgetting a delightful dollop of humor.
In the estimation of many fans of the series, May 1980's The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie ever made in part because of the climax's then - shocking revelation about the relationship between hero Luke Skywalker and villain Darth Vader.