[Movie Script]Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back

                          THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK


Written by



                              Lawrence Kasdan
and
Leigh Brackett


                        From a story by George Lucas








EXT. GALAXY - PLANET HOTH



A Star Destroyer moves through space, releasing Imperial probe robots

from its underside.
One of these probes zooms toward the planet Hoth and lands on its ice-

covered surface.  An explosion marks the point of

impact.
EXT. HOTH - METEORITE CRATER - SNOW PLAIN - DAY



A weird mechanical sound rises above the whining of the wind.  A

strange probe robot, with several extended sensors, emerges from the

smoke-shrouded crater.  The ominous mechanical probe floats across the

snow plain and disappears into the distance.
EXT. PLAIN OF HOTH - DAY


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