Luke Skywalker is back in his fighter pilot garb to man the laser turret of a Rebel Tank (prior used in filming at Norway), in posed publicity pictures of Mark Hamill for The Empire Strikes Back, taken around June 1979 on the Rebel Base hangar set at Elstree Studios.
There has been a lot of fan misreporting and persistent online lingering that one of the publicity images was linked to a scene in TESB that was deleted, in which Luke fires at attacking Wampas, part of an earlier filmed but deleted sequence where the ice creatures had broken into the base and attacked Rebels and R2-D2 (partially seen on Blu-ray). But it is not. Leigh Brackett's original unused script draft based on the original George Lucas outline for 'STAR WARS II' of late 1977 did indeed have a scene where the Wampa, at the worst possible time, attacked the hangar right in the middle of the Imperials ground assault, of which Luke fought a monster back only to be injured (resulting in Artoo flying him into space in the X-wing en route to Dagobah), but this never made it to the final shooting script by Lawrence Kasdan for shooting.
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