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Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

unused footage: scenes 361 - 380


367X - EXT. X-WING FIGHTER - EDGE OF WATER - DUSK - DAGOBAH

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Note: it is unknown whether this is a publicity still or represents action intended for the screen. Luke's flight suit and their location indicate a moment just prior to the Jedi's departure.


371 - INT. PRISON AREA - CLOUD CITY

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Note: an alternate camera angle from that of the film. This scene was also a bit longer, as evidenced by the last image of Vader watching from the doorway before leaving.

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380 - INT. CORRIDOR - CLOUD CITY

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As Luke and Artoo move carefully down a deserted corridor, they hear a group of people coming down a side hallway.
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Boba Fett enters from a side hallway followed by two guards pushing the floating, encased body of Han Solo. Two stormtroopers, who follow, immediately spot Luke and open fire on him. The youth draws his weapon and blasts the two troopers before they can get off a second shot. The two guards whisk Han into another hallway as Fett lowers his arm and fires a deadly laser at Luke, which explodes to one side and tears up a huge chunk of wall.

Luke rushes to a side hallway, but by the time he reaches it, Fett, Han, and the guards are gone. A thick metal door blocks the passage. Luke turns to see Leia, Chewie, Threepio, and Lando being herded down a second hallway by several other stormtroopers. 7


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Sources:
1 - Starlog Movie Series #6: Sci-Fi People #1, copyright 1999 Starlog Group, Inc.
2, 3, 4 - The Star Wars Insider, Issue #49, May/June, 2000.
5 - Star Wars: The Magic of Myth by Mary Henderson, published by Bantam Books, 1997.
6 - Behind the Magic: The Insider's Guide to Star Wars, CD-ROM, LucasArts Entertainment Co., LLC
7 - as scripted in The Empire Strikes Back Notebook, Diana Attias and Lindsay Smith, eds. Ballantine Books, 1980.


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