CLASSIC IMAGE: BATTLE READY REBELS!

A group of loyal Rebel soldiers prepare to meet heavy Imperial resistance cutting its way into the Blockade Runner in search of the stolen data tapes of the Death Star. In the original script (and comic book), the Stormtroopers blast downwards from the ceiling and into battle-an intriguing image. Though what was finally seen on screen in 1977 with their explosive entrance would prove more than exemplary!

CLASSIC IMAGE: IMPERIAL TAKE-OVER!

Now aboard the captured Blockade Runner, the ever threatening Darth Vader (Dave Prowse) cannot control his anger at Captain Antilles (Peter Geddis) for his stubborn refusal to co-operate regarding the location of the stolen Death Star data tapes, in this classic image from the opening scenes of STAR WARS.

STAR WARS BLUEPRINTS: REBEL EDITION

If you love all the cool fighter craft and technology of the Rebel Alliance, especially from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, then you're gonna want to get hold of DORLING KINDERSLEY's recently released STAR WARS BLUEPRINTS: REBEL EDITION book/posters.

Here's our review link:

http://www.starwarsaficionado.com/blueprints_rebel_edition.html

BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGE: A BATTLE TO COME!

An unknown UK film clapperboard man signals the start of a new scenes filming at ELSTREE for the sequence where brave but ultimately doomed Rebel Blockade Runner soldiers attempt to hold off a boarding party of overwhelming Imperial Stormtroopers, in a sequence filmed during July 1976. According to Gary Kurtz, lots of action footage was shot for the sequence, as well as other parts of later scenes on the Blockade Runner corridor sets, and not all of it made the finished film.

ILM CLASSIC IMAGE- A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

Lovely 1976/77 reference art by ILM designer/storyboard artist Joe Johnston showing the varying sizes of the STAR WARS spaceships and vehicles in relation to each other. As always with Johnston's work its simple but elegant, very stylized and ultra cool.