Kasdan, Lawrence
Entry updated 20 December 2011. Tagged: Author, Film.
(1949- ) US filmmaker, producer and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) with Leigh Brackett and George Lucas. Other screenplay credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), the Stephen King-based Dreamcatcher (2003) – which he also directed – Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
Several of Kasdan's sf scripts have been published [see Checklist below], beginning with The Empire Strikes Back (1978; exp vt The Empire Strikes Back: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Script 1999) with Leigh Brackett. His scriptwriting association with the Star Wars franchise has also included game adaptations and Lego Toy crossovers such as the Videogame Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (2006). [DRL]
Lawrence Edward Kasdan
born Miami, Florida: 14 January 1949
works
- The Empire Strikes Back (Hollywood, California: Lucas Film – Chapter 11 Company, 1978) with Leigh Brackett [filmscript: pb/]
- The Empire Strikes Back: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Script (London: Virgin Publishing, 1999) with Leigh Brackett [exp vt of the above: pb/]
- Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Illustrated Screenplay (New York: Ballantine Books, 1981) [pb/Richard Amsel]
- Return of the Jedi: The Screenplay (California: O.S.P. Publishing, 1994) [pb/]
- The Art of Return of the Jedi (New York: Ballantine Books, 1983) with George Lucas [includes the above screenplay: hb/]
- Dreamcatcher: The Shooting Script (New York: Newmarket Press, 2003) with William Goldman [filmscript: in the publisher's Newmarket Shooting Script series: pb/]
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