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Han Solo (/ ˈ h ɑː n ˈ s oʊ l oʊ /) [2] is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He was introduced in the 1977 film Star Wars, [u] and later appeared in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), The Force Awakens (2015), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019); Harrison Ford portrays Solo in all five films.
When writing The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas planned to introduce a gambler-type character, which developed into Lando Calrissian.Wanting the character to be a foil to the "rough" swashbuckler Han Solo (possibly an old friend), Lucas envisioned Lando as a cool con man with the elegance of James Bond and wit of Star Trek's Spock.
T-shirt with the quote "Han shot first" "Han shot first" refers to a controversial change made to a scene in the film Star Wars (1977), [a] in which Han Solo is confronted by the bounty hunter Greedo in the Mos Eisley cantina. In the original version of this scene, Han shoots Greedo dead. Later versions are edited so that Greedo fires at Han first.
Phil Tippett during the production of The Empire Strikes Back, observing a tauntaun miniature built for stop-motion animation. Up until January 1980, a shot of Luke riding his tauntaun mount on Hoth was intended to open Empire, but Lucas made a last-minute change to have the film open in space instead.
Star Wars: Infinities - The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi is a 2004 four-part story arc in the Star Wars Infinities series of comic books . It is an alternate telling of the 1983 film Return of the Jedi in which C-3PO is damaged in Jabba the Hutt's throne room, and there is no one to translate for Jabba and Leia.
The film was the first in the series to be adapted for video games, beginning with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1982) developed by Parker Brothers for the Atari 2600 games console. [288] [289] This was followed in 1985 by the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back arcade game. [290] Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (1998) features the Hoth battle as ...
He is revealed to have gained his injuries in a hovercar race against Han Solo on their shared home planet of Corellia. Shortly before the events of The Empire Strikes Back, [3] Dengar works as an assassin and falls in love with the dancer Manaroo. He pursues Solo to take his revenge, and is captured by the Empire upon Hoth. Vader lets him live ...
It documents the making of the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of the Jedi (1983), and their impact on popular culture. The two-and-a-half-hour-long documentary was made for the bonus disc of the DVD box set of the Star Wars Trilogy , released on September 21, 2004. [ 1 ]