The Empire Strikes Back/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** No one complained about the actor change, but quite a few people complained about the changes that added unnecessary clunky exposition which implied Vader had no idea that this kid named Skywalker from Tattooine who'd been paling around with Obi-Wan Kenobi was any relation to Anakin (which tracks with the Emperor's lies during Revenge of the Sith and the deliberate pretense that Padme had died pregnant, but makes Vader's specific fixation on catching Skywalker earlier in Empire seem odd).

* [[Throw It In]]: When they just couldn't get Han's response to Leia in their last scene right, Irvin finally just told Harrison to do anything, and he just blurted out "I know." The original line was "I love you too." Ford argued that Han Solo would never say such a thing directly, much less repeat someone. Lucas and Kershner agreed.

* [[Troubled Production]]: It went over budget and behind schedule, and the Hoth location shoot in Norway was plagued by a strong snowstorm and overcharges by the locals (who knew they had to cash in, given the success of the predecessor; Lucas shot ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' under a fake name to avert this price gouging).

* [[What Could Have Been]]: In Leigh Brackett's initial script draft, Vader is explicitly ''not'' Luke's father; Anakin appears to Luke on Dagobah as a Force Ghost, alongside Obi-Wan. As well, it's revealed that Luke has a twin sister: not Leia, but someone else called Nellith. She's mentioned but never seen, in what was intended as a [[Sequel Hook]] for later episodes (note the plural). This was probably what Lucas had in mind when he inserted the "there is another" line. However, the filming on ''Empire'' was so chaotic that he decided to wrap up the saga with only one more film, which led him to make the "other" into somebody we already knew.