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Return of the Jedi
. This poster shows a montage of characters from the movie. In the background, Darth Vader stands tall and dark in front of a reconstructed Death Star; before him stands Luke Skywalker wielding a lightsaber, Han Solo aiming a blaster, and Princess Leia wearing a slave outfit. To the right are an Ewok and Lando Calrissian, while miscellaneous villains fill out the left.

Theatrical release affiche by Kazuhiko Sano
Directed by Richard Marquand
Screenplay past
  • Lawrence Kasdan
  • George Lucas
Story past George Lucas
Produced past Howard Kazanjian
Starring
  • Marker Hamill
  • Harrison Ford
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Baton Dee Williams
  • Anthony Daniels
  • David Prowse
  • Kenny Baker
  • Peter Mayhew
  • Frank Oz
Cinematography Alan Hume
Edited by
  • Sean Barton
  • Marcia Lucas
  • Duwayne Dunham
Music by John Williams

Production
company

Lucasfilm Ltd.
Distributed by 20th Century Pull a fast one on

Release engagement
  • May 25, 1983 (1983-05-25) (United States)

Running time

 132 minutes[1]
Country United states of america
Language English
Budget $32.5–42.7 1000000[two] [iii]
Box part $475.1 meg[4] [v]

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ) is a 1983 American epic space opera moving picture directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas from a story past Lucas, who was also the executive producer. The sequel to Star Wars (1977)[a] and The Empire Strikes Back (1980), it is the third installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, the 3rd motion picture to exist produced, and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga". The picture show stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz.

Set up ane year after The Empire Strikes Back, the Galactic Empire, nether the direction of the Emperor, is constructing a 2d Death Star in order to beat the Insubordinate Brotherhood once and for all. Since the Emperor plans to personally oversee the final stages of its construction, the Rebel Fleet launches a full-calibration attack on the Death Star in society to prevent its completion and kill the Emperor, effectively bringing an end to his hold over the milky way. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker, now a Jedi Knight, struggles to bring his father Darth Vader back to the calorie-free side of the Force.

Following Lucas and Kasdan's word on making Return of the Jedi, the flick went into product. Steven Spielberg, David Lynch and David Cronenberg were considered to direct the project before Marquand signed on as manager. The production team relied on Lucas' storyboards during pre-product. While writing the shooting script, Lucas, Kasdan, Marquand, and producer Howard Kazanjian spent two weeks in conference discussing ideas to construct information technology. Kazanjian's schedule pushed shooting to begin a few weeks early to permit Industrial Calorie-free & Magic more time to work on the picture show's effects in postal service-product. Filming took place in England, California, and Arizona from January to May 1982 (1982-05).

The film was released in theaters on May 25, 1983, receiving positive reviews, although many felt that information technology did not match the cinematic heights of its predecessors. It grossed $374 1000000 during its initial theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing motion picture of 1983. Several re-releases and revisions to the moving-picture show have followed over the decades, which has likewise brought its total gross to $475 million. The United States Library of Congress selected information technology for preservation in the National Pic Registry in 2021. Afterwards Lucas finished his vi-film saga past making the prequel trilogy, Disney purchased Lucasfilm and produced a sequel trilogy. Additionally, it released The Mandalorian, the first live-activeness television serial in the franchise, for the streaming service Disney+. The series and its spin-offs are set beginning five years after Return of the Jedi.

Plot [edit]

A year after Han Solo'south capture,[b] C-3PO and R2-D2 are sent to offense lord Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine in a merchandise deal made by Luke Skywalker to rescue Han, who is however 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 past 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 casualty over the course of a millennium. Having hidden his new lightsaber inside R2-D2, Luke frees himself and his friends, and they battle Jabba'due south men aboard the criminal offence lord's canvas clomp. During the chaos, Boba Fett falls into the Sarlacc later on Han inadvertently amercement his jetpack, and Leia strangles Jabba to death with her bondage. The group destroy Jabba's sheet barge and escape.

As the others rendezvous with the Rebel Alliance, Luke returns to Dagobah to complete his Jedi training with Yoda, whom he discovers is dying. Yoda confirms that Darth Vader, one time the Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker, is Luke'south male parent, and reveals that there is another Skywalker, before vanishing and becoming one with the Force. Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force spirit then tells Luke that Leia is his twin sister, and that he must face Vader again to cease his preparation and defeat the Empire.

The Alliance learns that the Empire has been constructing a second Expiry Star under the supervision of the Emperor. Every bit the station is protected by an energy shield, Han leads a strike squad which includes Luke, Leia and Chewbacca to destroy the shield generator on the woods moon of Endor; doing so will allow the Rebel Armada to destroy the Decease Star. The squad uses a stolen Majestic shuttle to go far undetected, and encounters a tribe of Ewoks, gaining their trust afterward an initial conflict. Later, Luke tells Leia that she is his sister, Vader is their father, and that he must confront him. Surrendering to Imperial troops, he is brought before Vader, and fails to convince him to reject the nighttime side of the Force.

Vader takes Luke to meet the Emperor, who intends to turn him to the night side, and reveals that his friends and the Insubordinate Armada are headed into a trap. On Endor, Han's team is captured past Majestic forces, just a counterattack by the Ewoks allows the Rebels to infiltrate the shield generator. Meanwhile, Lando Calrissian in the Millennium Falcon and Admiral Ackbar lead the Insubordinate assault on the second Decease Star, finding its shield still agile, and the Royal armada waiting for them.

The Emperor reveals to Luke that the Death Star is fully operational and orders the firing of its superlaser, destroying a Rebel starship. He tempts Luke to give in to his acrimony. Luke attempts to assail him, but Vader intervenes and the ii engage in a lightsaber duel. Vader senses that Luke has a sis and threatens to turn her to the nighttime side if he does not. Enraged, Luke defeats Vader, severing his prosthetic paw. The Emperor betrays Vader past ordering Luke to have his place, but Luke refuses. Furious, the Emperor tortures Luke with Force lightning. Unwilling to let his son dice, Vader redeems himself every bit Anakin Skywalker, by throwing his principal down a reactor shaft to his death, but is mortally electrocuted in the process. At his father's last asking, Luke removes the redeemed Anakin Skywalker's mask, and he dies peacefully in Luke'south artillery.

Later the strike squad destroys the shield generator, Lando leads Rebel fighters into the Death Star's core. While the Rebel fleet destroys the Purple command ship, Lando and X-wing fighter airplane pilot Wedge Antilles destroy the Death Star's master reactor and escape before the station explodes. Meanwhile, Luke escapes in a shuttle. On Endor, Leia reveals to Han that Luke is her blood brother. Luke burns Vader's empty armor on a pyre and reunites with his friends. Every bit the Rebels celebrate their victory, Luke looks cheerfully upon the Force spirits of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the redeemed Anakin Skywalker.

Bandage [edit]

  • Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, ane of the final living Jedi Knights, trained by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda; Leia's twin brother, Han'due south friend and Darth Vader's son who is too a skilled Ten-fly fighter pilot in the Rebellion.
  • Harrison Ford as Han Solo, helm of the Millennium Falcon who becomes a Full general in the Rebellion; Luke's friend, and Leia'due south love interest.
  • Carrie Fisher every bit Leia Organa, the former princess of the destroyed planet Alderaan, who is a leader of the Rebellion, Luke'due south twin sister, and Han'due south love involvement.
  • Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, the erstwhile Administrator of Cloud Metropolis who has become a General in the Rebellion; Han's old friend and the previous owner of the Millennium Falcon.
  • Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, a humanoid protocol droid in the service of the Rebellion and longtime companion of R2-D2.
  • Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, a Wookiee who is Han's longtime friend, co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, and part of the Rebellion.
  • Kenny Baker equally
    • R2-D2, an astromech droid in the service of the Rebellion, loyal to Luke, and longtime companion of C-3PO.
    • Paploo, an Ewok who distracts Scout troopers by hijacking a speeder bike.
  • Ian McDiarmid as The Emperor, the founder and supreme ruler of the Galactic Empire, and Darth Vader'southward Sith master. Alan Webb was originally cast in the role but he dropped out due to illness.[7] Lindsay Anderson was offered the role merely he declined due to scheduling conflicts with Britannia Hospital. Ben Kingsley and David Suchet were also considered.[8] [ix]
  • Frank Oz as Yoda, a wise, centuries-old Jedi Chief of an unknown alien species, who lives in exile on Dagobah and trained Luke.
  • David Prowse every bit Darth Vader, a powerful Sith lord, the Emperor's amateur, and second-in-command of the Empire; Luke and Leia's begetter.
    • James Earl Jones as Darth Vader's voice
    • Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker[c]
  • Alec Guinness every bit Obi-Wan Kenobi, the deceased Jedi mentor of Luke, and of his father before him, who continues to guide Luke in his journeying as a Force spirit.

Denis Lawson reprises his role as Wedge Antilles, an X-wing airplane pilot in the Rebellion, from the previous two films. Kenneth Colley and Jeremy Bulloch reprise their roles from The Empire Strikes Back as Admiral Piett, the commander of Darth Vader'due south flagship, the Executor, and compensation hunter Boba Fett, respectively. Michael Pennington portrays Moff Jerjerrod, the commander of the second Death Star. Warwick Davis appears as Wicket W. Warrick, an Ewok who befriends Leia and leads her and her friends to the Ewok tribe. Baker was originally cast as Wicket, but was replaced by Davis after falling ill with nutrient poisoning on the morning of the shoot. Davis had no previous acting experience and was cast only after his grandmother had discovered an open call for dwarfs for the new Star Wars film.[xi] Caroline Blakiston portrays Mon Mothma, a co-founder and leader of the Insubordinate Alliance. Michael Carter plays Jabba the Hutt's aide, Bib Fortuna (voiced past Erik Bauersfeld), while Femi Taylor and Claire Davenport appear as Jabba's original slave dancers.

To portray the numerous alien species featured in the film a multitude of puppeteers, voice actors, and stunt performers were employed. Admiral Ackbar, the commander of the Rebel Armada during the Battle of Endor, was performed by puppeteer Tim Rose, with his voice provided by Erik Bauersfeld. Nien Nunb, who co-pilots the Millennium Falcon alongside Lando in the picture show, was portrayed by Richard Bonehill in costume for full body shots, while he was otherwise a puppet operated by Mike Quinn and his voice was provided by Kipsang Rotich. Rose also operated Salacious B. Nibble, whose voice was provided by Marking Dodson. Quinn also played Ree-Yees and Wol Cabbashite. Sy Snootles was a marionette operated by Rose and Quinn, while her voice was provided by Annie Arbogast. Others included Simon J. Williamson as Max Rebo, a Gamorrean Baby-sit and a Mon Calamari; Deep Roy equally Droopy McCool; Ailsa Berk as Amanaman; Paul Springer as Ree-Yees, Gamorrean Guard and a Mon Calamari; Hugh Spight as a Gamorrean Guard, Elom and a Mon Calamari; Swee Lim as Attark the Hoover; Richard Robinson as a Yuzzum; Gerald Home as Tessek and a Monday Calamari officer; Phil Herbert as Hermi Odle; Tik and Tok (Tim Dry and Sean Crawford) as Whiphid and Yak-Face; Phil Tippett every bit the Rancor with Michael McCormick; and Pat Welsh as the voice of Boushh.

Jabba the Hutt was operated by Toby Philpott, David Barclay and Mike Edmonds (who also portrays the Ewok Logray) operated the tail. Larry Ward portrays the Huttese language voice with Quinn, among other roles, decision-making the eyes. Barclay, Quinn, and David Greenaway assisted Frank Oz in performing Yoda.

Alan Rickman auditioned for the role of Moff Jerjerrod but lost the part to Michael Pennington.[12]

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

Following discussions between Star Wars creator George Lucas and producer Howard Kazanjian, a sequel to The Empire Strikes Back was swiftly put into product.[13] Every bit with the previous moving picture, Lucas personally financed Return of the Jedi. Lucas also chose not to direct Return of the Jedi himself, and started searching for a director.[11] Although Lucas' outset selection was Steven Spielberg, their separate feuds with the Managing director's Society led to his existence banned from directing the film.[14] Lucas approached David Lynch, who had recently been nominated for the Academy Accolade for Best Manager for The Elephant Man in 1980, to captain Return of the Jedi, merely Lynch declined, saying that he had "next door to naught interest".[15] David Cronenberg was also offered the chance to direct, but he declined the offering to brand Videodrome and The Dead Zone.[16] Lamont Johnson, director of Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, was too considered.[17] Lucas eventually chose Richard Marquand. Lucas may have directed some of the second unit piece of work personally as the shooting threatened to go over schedule; this is a function Lucas had willingly performed on previous occasions when he had only officially been producing a moving-picture show (due east.g. More American Graffiti, Raiders of the Lost Ark). Lucas did operate the B photographic camera on the set a few times.[18] Lucas himself has admitted to being on the set frequently because of Marquand'south relative inexperience with special effects.[11] Lucas praised Marquand as a "very nice person who worked well with actors".[19] Marquand did note that Lucas kept a conspicuous presence on set, joking, "It is rather similar trying to direct King Lear – with Shakespeare in the next room!"[twenty]

The screenplay was written by Lawrence Kasdan and Lucas (with uncredited contributions by David Peoples and Marquand), based on Lucas' story. Kasdan claims he told Lucas that Return of the Jedi was "a weak title", and Lucas afterwards decided to proper noun the film Revenge of the Jedi .[xi] The screenplay itself was non finished until rather late in pre-product, well after a production schedule and upkeep had been created by Kazanjian and Marquand had been hired, which was unusual for a motion picture. Instead, the production team relied on Lucas' story and crude draft in order to commence work with the art department. When information technology came fourth dimension to formally write a shooting script, Lucas, Kasdan, Marquand and Kazanjian spent two weeks in conference discussing ideas; Kasdan used record transcripts of these meetings to so construct the script.[21]

The issue of whether Harrison Ford would render for the final picture arose during pre-product. Different the other stars of the first movie, Ford had not contracted to do two sequels, and Raiders of the Lost Ark had made him an even bigger star. Render of the Jedi producer Howard Kazanjian (who too produced Raiders of the Lost Ark) convinced Ford to return:

I played a very important part in bringing Harrison back for Return of the Jedi. Harrison, different Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill signed but a 2 movie contract. That is why he was frozen in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back. When I suggested to George we should bring him dorsum, I distinctly remember him maxim that Harrison would never return. I said what if I convinced him to return. George simply replied that we would then write him in to Jedi. I had just recently negotiated his deal for Raiders of the Lost Ark with Phil Gersh of the Gersh Agency. I called Phil who said he would speak with Harrison. When I chosen back over again, Phil was on vacation. David, his son, took the telephone call and we negotiated Harrison's deal. When Phil returned to the office several weeks later he called me dorsum and said I had taken advantage of his son in the negotiations. I had not. Merely agents are agents.[22]

Ford suggested that Han Solo be killed through self-sacrifice. Kasdan concurred, saying information technology should happen near the starting time of the third act to instill dubiety as to whether the others would survive, just Lucas was vehemently against information technology and rejected the concept.[11] Gary Kurtz, who produced Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back but was replaced as producer for Render of the Jedi past Kazanjian, said in 2010 that the ongoing success with Star Wars trade and toys led George Lucas to reject the idea of killing off Han Solo in the middle part of the film during a raid on an Imperial base. Luke Skywalker was too to have walked off alone and exhausted like the hero in a Spaghetti Western simply, according to Kurtz, Lucas opted for a happier catastrophe to encourage higher merchandise sales.[23] Harrison Ford himself has agreed with this sentiment, proverb that Lucas "didn't come across any future in dead Han toys."[24]

Yoda was originally not meant to announced in the film, just Marquand strongly felt that returning to Dagobah was essential to resolve the dilemma raised by the previous film.[21] The inclusion led Lucas to insert a scene in which Yoda confirms that Darth Vader is Luke's father because, after a discussion with a children's psychologist, he did not want younger moviegoers to dismiss Vader's claim as a lie.[19] Many ideas from the original script were left out or changed. For instance, the Ewoks were going to be Wookiees[25] and the Millennium Falcon would be used in the arrival at the forest moon of Endor. Post-obit the defeat of the Emperor, the film was originally intended to finish with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda returning to life from their spectral existence in the Force, forth with Anakin Skywalker, thanks to Yoda beingness able to prevent him from becoming one with the Force. They would then join the residue of the characters in their celebration on Endor.[26]

Filming [edit]

Filming began on January 11, 1982, and lasted through May xx, 1982, a schedule 6 weeks shorter than The Empire Strikes Back. Kazanjian's schedule pushed shooting equally early equally possible in order to give Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as much fourth dimension as possible to work on effects, and left some crew members dubious of their power to exist fully prepared for the shoot.[28] Working on a budget of $32.5 1000000,[29] Lucas was determined to avoid going over budget as had happened with The Empire Strikes Back. Producer Howard Kazanjian estimated that using ILM (endemic wholly by Lucasfilm) for special effects saved the production approximately $18 million.[29] However, the fact that Lucasfilm was a non-union company made acquiring shooting locations more than difficult and more expensive, fifty-fifty though Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back had been big hits.[eleven] The projection was given the working title Bluish Harvest with a tagline of "Horror Beyond Imagination." This disguised what the product crew was actually filming from fans and the press, and also prevented price gouging by service providers.[xi]

The get-go phase of production started with 78 days at Elstree Studios in England,[28] where the motion picture occupied all ix stages. The shoot commenced with a scene subsequently deleted from the finished film where the heroes become caught in a sandstorm as they get out Tatooine.[20] (This was the just major sequence cut from the film during editing.)[21] While attempting to motion picture Luke Skywalker'due south battle with the rancor beast, Lucas insisted on trying to create the scene in the same style as Toho'southward Godzilla films by using a stunt performer inside a suit. The production team fabricated several attempts, but were unable to create an adequate event. Lucas eventually relented and decided to film the rancor equally a high-speed boob.[11] In Apr, the crew moved to the Yuma Desert in Arizona for two weeks of Tatooine exteriors.[20] Product then moved to the redwood forests of northern California[30] near Crescent Metropolis where two weeks were spent shooting the Endor wood exteriors, and and so concluded at ILM in San Rafael, California for virtually ten days of bluescreen shots. 1 of 2 "skeletal" post-production units shooting background matte plates spent a day in Decease Valley.[28] The other was a special Steadicam unit of measurement shooting forest backgrounds from June fifteen–17, 1982, for the speeder chase almost the centre of the movie.[31] Steadicam inventor Garrett Dark-brown personally operated these shots every bit he walked through a disguised path within the forest shooting at less than one frame per second. By walking at about 5 mph (8 km/h) and projecting the footage at 24 frame/due south, the motion seen in the film appeared as if it were moving at around 120 mph (190 km/h).[11] Darth Vader'due south small funeral was filmed at Skywalker Ranch.

While Lucasfilm was testing the film in a commercial theater, they would begin running into troubles. George Lucas and his employees could not hear many of the sound effects they had mixed. For instance, during ane of the classic Princess Leia scenes, her theme was nowhere to exist heard. The timeless soundtrack and sound furnishings that made Star Wars then memorable were not in that location. To brand matters worse, the background noise in the theater became so bad that it muffled the majority of the sound from the film when it was played through the theater'due south commercial audio system. Many theaters at the time had poor room acoustics with mono environs sound. Lucas would solve the problem by ensuring that the theaters played his movies would project all of the intended sound he heard during the mix. Therefore, he decided to create a new visitor chosen THX.[32] Harrison Ford contradistinct some scenes during the shoot, causing Billy Dee Williams to forget some of his lines, which was a source of frustration for Marquand. Marquand and Anthony Daniels also clashed somewhat, leading to the latter recording his ADR with Lucas instead.[33]

Postal service-production [edit]

Meanwhile, special furnishings work at ILM apace stretched the visitor to its operational limits. While the R&D work and feel gained from the previous two films in the trilogy allowed for increased efficiency, this was kickoff by the desire to have the closing moving picture raise the bar fix by each of these films.[29] A compounding cistron was the intention of several departments of ILM to either have on other moving-picture show work or decrease staff during slow cycles. Instead, every bit soon as production began, the unabridged company found it necessary to remain running 20 hours a solar day on 6-24-hour interval weeks in society to encounter their goals by Apr ane, 1983. Of well-nigh 900 special effects shots,[28] all VistaVision optical effects remained in-house, since ILM was the only company capable of using the format, while about 400 four-perf opticals were subcontracted to outside furnishings houses.[34] Progress on the opticals was severely delayed for a fourth dimension when ILM rejected about 30,000 metres (100,000 ft) of film when the picture perforations failed image registration and steadiness tests.[28]

Music [edit]

John Williams composed and conducted the film's musical score with performances by the London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestration credits likewise include Thomas Newman.[35] The initial release of the film's soundtrack was on the RSO Records label in the United States. Sony Classical Records acquired the rights to the archetype trilogy scores in 2004 after gaining the rights to release the second trilogy soundtracks (The Phantom Menace and Set on of the Clones). In the same twelvemonth, Sony Classical re-pressed the 1997 RCA Victor release of Render of the Jedi along with the other two films in the trilogy. The set was released with the new artwork mirroring the first DVD release of the flick. Despite the Sony digital re-mastering, which minimally improved the sound heard only on high-cease stereos, this 2004 release is essentially the same every bit the 1997 RCA Victor release.[36]

Release [edit]

The teaser affiche titled Revenge of the Jedi past Drew Struzan

Return of the Jedi 's theatrical release took place on May 25, 1983. It was originally slated to be May 27, but was subsequently changed to coincide with the date of the 1977 release of the original Star Wars film.[29] With a massive worldwide marketing entrada, illustrator Tim Reamer created the image for the movie poster and other advertising. At the time of its release, the film was advertised on posters and merchandise as simply Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, despite its on-screen "Episode Six" distinction. The original flick was later re-released to theaters in 1985.[ citation needed ]

In 1997, for the 20th ceremony of the release of Star Wars (re-titled Episode IV: A New Hope), Lucas released the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition. Along with the 2 other films in the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi was re-released on March fourteen, 1997 (moved up one week from its original appear release appointment of March vii due to the box office success of The Empire Strikes Back the month prior), with a number of changes and additions, which included the insertion of several conflicting ring members and a different song in Jabba's throne room, the modification of the Sarlacc to include a beak, the replacement of music at the endmost scene, and a montage of different alien worlds celebrating the fall of the Empire.[37] The runtime of the 1997 Special Edition of the flick and all subsequent releases is approximately five minutes longer than the original theatrical version.

Title change [edit]

The original teaser trailer for the film carried the proper noun Revenge of the Jedi.[38] In December 1982, Lucas decided that "Revenge" was not advisable as a true Jedi should never seek revenge and returned to his original title. By that time thousands of "Revenge" teaser posters (with artwork by Drew Struzan) had been printed and distributed. Lucasfilm stopped the shipping of the posters and sold the remaining stock of 6,800 posters to Star Wars fan club members for $9.l.[39]

Star Wars: Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith, released in 2005 as function of the prequel trilogy, later on alluded to the dismissed title Revenge of the Jedi.[40]

Home media [edit]

The 1997 theatrical release poster of the new Special Edition version of the motion picture (art by Drew Struzan)

The original theatrical version of Return of the Jedi was released on VHS and Laserdisc several times between 1986 and 1995,[41] followed past releases of the Special Edition in the same formats betwixt 1997 and 2000. Some of these releases independent featurettes; some were individual releases of just this film, while others were boxed sets of all three original films.

On September 21, 2004, the original Star Wars trilogy was released in a boxset on DVD with digital restoration and additional alterations made by Lucas.[42] [d] In this version of Render of the Jedi, Sebastian Shaw's portrayal of Anakin's spirit is replaced by Hayden Christensen, who portrayed Anakin in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.[10] All three films of the trilogy were released individually on Limited Edition DVDs on September 12, 2006, with the original unaltered versions included every bit bonus features.[42] These were nerveless in a box set on November 4, 2008.[43]

A Blu-ray Disc version of the six-film Star Wars saga was released in September 2011,[44] which incorporated more than pocket-size changes to Return of the Jedi, including making the Ewoks blink and having Vader yell "No!" as he throws the Emperor down the Death Star shaft; the latter alter drew abrupt negative criticism.[45] [46] [44] Several deleted scenes from the film were included as special features, including a completed scene in which Vader communicates with Luke via the Force as Luke assembles his new lightsaber before infiltrating Jabba'southward palace,[47] a sandstorm sequence post-obit the Sarlacc Pit rescue,[44] and a scene featuring Moff Jerjerrod and Death Star officers during the Battle of Endor.

On April 7, 2015, Walt Disney Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Lucasfilm jointly announced the digital releases of the half-dozen released Star Wars films. Return of the Jedi was released through the iTunes Shop, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, and Disney Movies Anywhere on April 10, 2015.[48]

Walt Disney Studios Home Amusement reissued Render of the Jedi on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download on September 22, 2019.[49] Additionally, all six films were available for 4K HDR and Dolby Atmos streaming on Disney+ upon the service's launch on November 12, 2019.[50] This version of the flick was released by Disney on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray box attack March 31, 2020.[51]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

Return of the Jedi grossed $309.3 million in the Us and Canada, and $166 meg in other territories, for a worldwide full of $475.iii million, against a production budget of about $32.v million.[4] [five]

The motion-picture show made $23 million from one,002 theaters in its opening weekend and grossed a tape $45.iii million in its opening week.[52] Information technology finished first at the box function for six of its first seven weeks of release, simply coming in second once behind Superman III in its 4th weekend.[5] Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 80 1000000 tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run.[53] When it was re-released in 1985, it made $11.ii million,[54] which totaled its initial theatrical gross to $385.eight million worldwide.[54]

Critical response [edit]

According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of critics have given the pic a positive review with an average rating of seven.2/10, based on 98 reviews from critics. The site's critics consensus reads: "Though declining to reach the cinematic heights of its predecessors, Return of the Jedi remains an entertaining sci-fi adventure and a fitting stop to the classic trilogy."[55] At Metacritic, the picture show has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100 based on 24 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[56]

In 1983, pic critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, calling it "a complete entertainment, a feast for the eyes and a delight for the fancy. It's a petty amazing how Lucas and his assembly go along topping themselves."[57] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune also gave the motion picture four stars out of four and wrote, "From the moment that the familiar Star Wars introductory words begin to clamber upward the screen, Return of the Jedi is a childlike delight. It'due south the best video game around. And for the professional moviegoers, it is particularly enjoyable to picket every facet of filmmaking at its best."[58] James Harwood of Variety called the motion picture "a visual care for throughout," but thought that "Hamill is not enough of a dramatic player to carry the plot load here" and Harrison Ford "is present more in torso than in spirit this time, given little to do merely react to special effects. And it can't exist said that either Carrie Fisher or Baton Dee Williams rise to previous efforts. But Lucas and director Richard Marquand accept overwhelmed these performer flaws with a truly amazing assortment of creatures, old and new, plus the familiar space hardware."[59] Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is fully satisfying, it gives honest value to all the hopes of its believers. With this last of the fundamental Star Wars cycle, there is the sense of the closing of a circumvolve, of leaving behind real friends. It is accomplished with a weight and a new maturity that seem entirely plumbing equipment, yet the movie has lost none of its sense of fun; it bursts with new inventiveness."[60]

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post said, "Render of the Jedi, a feat of mass enchantment, puts the happy finishing touches on George Lucas' Star Wars saga. It was worth the wait, and the work is now an imposing landmark in contemporary popular civilization—a 3-part, 6¼-hour science-fiction epic of unabashed heroic proclivities."[61] The film was besides featured on the May 23, 1983, Fourth dimension magazine cover upshot (where it was labeled "Star Wars III"),[62] where the reviewer Gerald Clarke said that while it was non as exciting equally the get-go Star Wars film, it was "meliorate and more satisfying" than The Empire Strikes Back, at present considered by many equally the best of the original trilogy.[63] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Return of the Jedi "past far the dimmest adventure of the lot"[64] and stated, "The joys of watching space battles equally envisioned by wizards in studios and laboratories are not inexhaustible."[65] Pauline Kael of The New Yorker stated, "Some of the trick effects might seem miraculous if the imagery had whatsoever lustre, simply Render of the Jedi is an impersonal and rather junky slice of moviemaking."[66]

Christopher John reviewed The Return of the Jedi in Ares Magazine #15 and commented that "Star Wars may not exist dead, just Render of the Jedi is a failure, and is a cheap and tarnished crown for the series which shook the world of motion-picture show when it started out . . . a long fourth dimension ago, in that galaxy far, far away."[67]

Colin Greenland reviewed Return of the Jedi for Imagine magazine, and stated that "You would think a series similar Star Wars, fuelled past public admiration, benumbed forth on the hyperdrive of its own hyperboles, would get inexorably worse. It is not. Information technology is getting ameliorate."[68]

James Kendrick of Q Network Picture Desk, reviewing the 1997 Special Edition re-release, assessed Return of the Jedi every bit "the to the lowest degree of the 3" original films, merely "yet a magnificent experience in its ain right. Its main problem is that it tends to lean too much on the slick commercialism generated by the first two installments."[69] ReelViews.net's James Berardinelli wrote of the Special Edition:

Although it was great fun re-watching Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back again on the big screen, Return of the Jedi doesn't generate the same sense of enjoyment. And, while Lucas worked diligently to re-invigorate each entry into the trilogy, Jedi needs more than the patches of improved audio, cleaned-upwards visuals, and a few new scenes. Still, despite the flaws, this is still Star Wars, and, as such, represents a couple of lightly-entertaining hours spent with characters we have gotten to know and love over the years. Return of the Jedi is hands the weakest of the series, but its position every bit the determination makes it a must-meet for anyone who has enjoyed its predecessor.[70]

While the Sarlacc boxing sequence, the speeder bike chase, the infinite battle, and Luke's duel against Vader are all well-regarded, the boxing between Ewoks and stormtroopers remains controversial.[71] Fans are divided on the likelihood of Ewoks (being a primitive race of small creatures) defeating an armed ground force comprising the Empire'southward "all-time troops". Lucas has defended the scenario, saying that the Ewoks' purpose was to distract the Majestic troops and they did not really win.[19] His inspiration for the Ewoks' victory came from the Vietnam War, where the ethnic Vietcong forces prevailed against the technologically superior Usa.[72]

Accolades [edit]

At the 56th Academy Awards in 1984, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett received the "Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects." Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe, and Michael Ford were nominated for "Best Art Direction/Set Decoration". Ben Burtt received a nomination for "Best Sound Effects Editing". John Williams received the nomination for "All-time Music, Original Score". Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe all received the nominations for "Best Sound".[73] At the 1984 BAFTA Awards, Edlund, Muren, Ralston, and Kit Westward won for "Best Special Visual Effects". Tippett and Stuart Freeborn were also nominated for "Best Makeup". Reynolds received a nomination for "Best Production Design/Art Direction". Burtt, Dawe, and Summers likewise received nominations for "All-time Sound". Williams was also nominated "Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television receiver Special". The film also won for "Best Dramatic Presentation", the older honour for science fiction and fantasy in flick, at the 1984 Hugo Awards.[74]

In 2021, the moving picture was selected for preservation in the United States National Pic Registry past the Library of Congress for beingness "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[75] [76]

American Moving-picture show Institute Lists
AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies – Nominated[77]
AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills – Nominated[78]

Marketing [edit]

Novelization [edit]

The novelization of Return of the Jedi was written by James Kahn and was released on May 12, 1983, thirteen days before the picture show's release.[79]

Radio drama [edit]

A three-hour radio drama accommodation of the film was written by Brian Daley with boosted textile contributed by John Whitman and was produced for and broadcast on National Public Radio in 1996 (over a decade afterwards the radio adaptations of the first two Star Wars films). It was based on characters and situations created by George Lucas and on the screenplay by Kasdan and Lucas. Anthony Daniels reprised his part from the pic as C-3PO, simply Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams (who lent their voices to the previous radio adaptations) were replaced past newcomer Joshua Fardon and character thespian Arye Gross, respectively. Bernard Behrens and Brock Peters reprised their roles every bit Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, respectively. John Lithgow voiced Yoda, and veteran character actor Ed Begley, Jr. played Boba Fett. Ed Asner voiced Jabba the Hutt, speaking but in grunts.[80]

Comic book accommodation [edit]

Marvel Comics published a comic volume adaptation of the motion picture past author Archie Goodwin and artists Al Williamson, Carlos Garzon, Tom Palmer, and Ron Frenz. The adaptation appeared in Marvel Super Special #27[81] and as a four-issue limited series.[82] [83] It was later reprinted in a mass market place paperback,[84] besides as collections of Marvel'due south self-titled Star Wars series.

Book-and-record set [edit]

Lucasfilm adapted the story for a children'southward book-and-tape set. Released in 1983, the 24-folio Star Wars: Return of the Jedi read-along book was accompanied by a 33⅓ rpm xviii-centimetre (7 in) gramophone tape. Each page of the book contained a cropped frame from the film with an abridged and condensed version of the story. The record was produced by Buena Vista Records.[85]

Prequels and sequels [edit]

16 years after the release of Render of the Jedi, Lucas wrote and directed the prequel trilogy, consisting of the films The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. The films relate the history betwixt Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, and the latter's fall to the darkside and transformation into Darth Vader. The prequel trilogy was financially successful, and polarized critics and fans on their release for the storylines and some new characters.[86] [87] [88] [89] [ninety] Following Lucas's auction of the Star Wars franchise to The Walt Disney Company in 2012, Disney adult a sequel trilogy, consisting of The Force Awakens, The Concluding Jedi, and The Rising of Skywalker.[91] [92] [93] [94] [95] Original trilogy cast including Ford, Hamill, and Fisher reprised their roles, alongside new characters portrayed past Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, and Oscar Isaac.[96] Standalone films and television set series have also been released, exploring adventures set up around the primary trilogy arcs.[97] [98] [99] Nearly relevantly, the Disney+ streaming shows The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian and the latter'southward upcoming spin-offs are prepare beginning a few years later on Return of the Jedi, and bridge the fourth dimension period between that film and The Strength Awakens.[100] [101]

Meet likewise [edit]

  • Princess Leia's bikini

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Later titled Star Wars: Episode Iv – A New Hope
  2. ^ As depicted in the 1980 motion-picture show The Empire Strikes Dorsum [6]
  3. ^ Shaw portrays both the unmasked Anakin and the grapheme's spirit, seen at the end of the film; Hayden Christensen, who portrayed Anakin in the prequel trilogy, replaces Shaw every bit the spirit in the 2004 release of the film and onwards.[10]
  4. ^ The DVD features Dolby Digital v.1 EX surround sound and commentaries by George Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher. The bonus disc included documentaries including Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy and several featurettes including "The Characters of Star Wars", "The Birth of the Lightsaber", and "The Legacy of Star Wars". Also included were teasers, trailers, TV spots, all the same galleries, and a demo for Star Wars: Battlefront.

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  • Arnold, Alan (1980). Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of Making the Empire Strikes Back. London: Sphere Books. ISBN978-0-345-29075-5.

External links [edit]

  • Official website at StarWars.com
  • Official website at Lucasfilm.com
  • Star Wars: Episode Vi Return of the Jedi on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki
  • Render of the Jedi at IMDb
  • Return of the Jedi at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Render of the Jedi at the TCM Movie Database
  • Render of the Jedi at AllMovie
  • Render of the Jedi at the American Movie Constitute Catalog

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