![]() ![]() While planning part two, Lucas was also busy building his very own empire-Lucasfilm-while continuing to foster innovation at Industrial Light & Magic. ![]() He now had to follow his beloved blockbuster with an even better sequel. ![]() That story eventually became the first Expanded Universe novel in the franchise’s history, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, which sees Luke and Leia crash on a jungle planet and face off with Darth Vader in a race against time to find a mysterious gem called the Kaiburr crystal.īut since Star Wars was such a huge success, Lucas had a much bigger problem on his hands. ![]() George Lucas hired Alan Dean Foster, who ghost-wrote the novelization of the first film, to write a relatively subdued sequel. Although we got the latter, there was already a plan in case the film wasn’t a huge hit. When Star Wars premiered in May 1977, the saga’s sequel could have gone either the low-budget or blockbuster route. But before it became the magnum opus of the original Star Wars trilogy, the spark that would become The Empire Strikes Backfloated in the nothingness of space, waiting for its big bang. The Empire Strikes Back is a masterpiece of blockbuster cinema and the standard by which we measure all other big-screen space adventures. ![]()
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