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Return of the Jedinote is the sequel to The Empire Strikes Back and the third and final film in the Star Wars original trilogy. It is directed by Richard Marquand, with the screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas and the story written by Lucas. It was released on May 25, 1983.
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: The radio drama of Return of the Jedi contains one of these. C-3PO was deliberately kept in the dark about Luke's complicated plan to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, so that when Jabba had Threepio's data files scanned and found no trace of the stratagem, he accepted the droid's story at face-value.
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Creation of the radio version of Return of the Jedi was delayed 13 years due to Congressional cuts in spending for public broadcasting. While NPR did not have funding to produce the drama, high sales for the compact disc and cassette releases of the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back radio dramas convinced executives at Highbridge Audio to take the initiative to produce the drama of Return of the Jedithrough their studio instead. The bulk of the production crew and core cast from...
Production
Return of the Jedi was recorded at the same pace as its two predecessors: one episode per day, for a total of six rather grueling days. The cast and crew returned to Westlake Audio Studios in Los Angeles, where the first Star Warsdrama had been recorded. Tom Voegeli again realized the sound mixing at his home base in St Paul, Minnesota. He and his team again had access to the sounds and music from the films. The dialogue for Chewbacaca, Artoo, Nien Nunb, and the Ewoks all came from Ben Burtt'...
NPR broadcast the first episode, "Tatooine Haunts", on November 5, 1996, with subsequent episodes airing weekly on Tuesdays. The finale "Blood of a Jedi" aired on December 10. Some local stations followed different schedules. Before the end of the year, HighBridge released a Collector's Limited Edition of the entire radio trilogy. The radio drama's...
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A radio dramatization of the original Star Wars film trilogy was produced in 1981, 1983, and 1996. The first two radio series, based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio (NPR) as part of NPR Playhouse. A dramatization of Return of the Jedi was produced by most of the same team and it was ...
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May 5, 2024 · 1 view 1 hour ago. Like its predecessors, this electrifying drama boasts a splendid cast (including Anthony Daniels as See-Threepio and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt), a greatly expanded script,...
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Action Adventure Fantasy. Some time after the events of The Empire Strikes Back, our heroes find themselves wrapped up in a plot to save their friend Han Solo, who is captured by the gangster Jabba the Hutt, and Luke Skywalker makes his final leap to being a Jedi. Director. John Madden.
Pattern and Web: Directed by John Madden. With Anthony Daniels, Joshua Fardon, Peter Michael Goetz, Arye Gross. Regrouping with the Rebel Alliance, Luke, Leia, Han, and Lando plot a final assault on the Empire's new Death Star II. On the forest moon of Endor, the Rebels launch their plan.
