AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: TRAPPED BY THE EXECUTOR!

 

"It's Vader..."

Hearing the manipulating voice of by Darth Vader in his mind, the still in shock Luke leaves the confines of the cramped medical bay of the Falcon and moves to the cockpit, just in the scary time that the craft is being ominously herded straight into the path of his enemy's Super Star Destroyer!

Billy Dee Williams has fun in a behind the scenes moment.

The trio of actors in rehearsal before filming at Elstree, 1979.

The sequence seen in the film was actually a partial reshoot, the originally shot Falcon cockpit scene saw Luke wearing a brown medical blanket around him. Presumably this was changed behind the scenes as they wanted to remind viewers of Luke's severed hand injury which would have been obscured in footage by the blanket.

From the John Daly Collection.

One brief cockpit shot of this deleted scene with Luke wearing the blanket did however make it into the final film- for the blue screen POV shot as the Falcon goes into hyperspace.

Image: StarWarsScreenCaps website.