Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas from a story by Lucas, who was also the executive producer. The sequel to Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980), it is the third installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, the third film to be produced, and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga". The film stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz.
Plot
A year after Han Solo's capture, C-3PO and R2-D2 are sent to crime lord Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine in a trade bargain made by Luke Skywalker to rescue Han, who is still frozen in carbonite. Disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh, Princess Leia infiltrates the palace under the pretense of collecting the bounty on Chewbacca and unfreezes Han, but is caught and enslaved. Luke soon arrives to bargain for his friends' release, but Jabba drops him through a trapdoor to be eaten by a rancor. After Luke kills it, Jabba sentences him, Han, and Chewbacca to death by being fed to the sarlacc, a deadly beast entombed in the desert floor that digests its prey over the course of a millennium. Having hidden his new lightsaber inside , Luke frees himself and his friends, and they battle Jabba's men aboard the crime lord's sail barge. During the chaos, Boba Fett falls into the sarlacc after Han inadvertently damages his jet pack, and Leia strangles Jabba to death with her chains. The group destroy Jabba's sail barge and escape.
Awards
Cast
- Alec Guinness
- Anthony Daniels
- Billy Dee Williams
- Caroline Blakiston
- Carrie Fisher
- David Prowse
- Debbie Lee Carrington
- Deep Roy
- Denis Lawson
- Dermot Crowley
- Ernie Fosselius
- Felix Silla
- Femi Taylor
- Frank Oz
- Harrison Ford
- Hayden Christensen
- Hilton McRae
- Ian McDiarmid
- Jack Purvis
- Jeremy Bulloch
- Kenneth Colley
- Kenny Baker
- Mark Hamill
- Michael Carter
- Michael Gilden
- Michael Pennington
- Mike Quinn
- Paul Brooke
- Peter Mayhew
- Phil Fondacaro
- Richard Driscoll
- Richard Marquand
- Sebastian Shaw
- Timothy M. Rose
- Tony Cox
- Warwick Davis