Monday, 27 September 2021

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: SKILLED SHOOTING!


Pursued by Imperial Stormtroopers, our Rebel heroes make their way to an elevator, but not before Leia provides some effective covering fire!


This shot would also have a laser blast painted on it for publicity usage.

A sequence of our heroes trapped and having to escape the elevator to emergency stairs, in order to reach the Falcon platform, was planned for but ultimately scrapped due to lack of filming time, though not before a scene of Lando racing down stairs towards the closed platform doors had earlier been filmed (and can be seen in an earlier teaser trailer for Empire). That scene was ultimately scrapped and re-filmed with a revised corridor set.


The elevator area set and corridor.




Carrie Fisher takes a break on set.

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