{"id":2478272,"date":"2026-06-27T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2478272"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:57:49","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back-uk-preview-events-fantha-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-empire-strikes-back-uk-preview-events-fantha-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back: UK preview events &#8211; Fantha Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_100\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - Special UK preview events (1980)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tng3vt17LFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fanthatracks.com\/news\/conventions-events\/space-wales-original-craftsmen-on-creating-the-full-size-millennium-falcon-from-the-empire-strikes-back\/\">The Empire Strikes Back<\/a> arrived, Selfridges in London held a couple of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tng3vt17LFo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">special preview events<\/a>, first with costumes from the film, Ralph McQuarrie pre-production artwork and on 5th May a book signing by the cast, including Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Dave Prowse, Anthony Daniels, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fanthatracks.com\/interviews\/icons-unearthed-unplugged-billy-dee-williams-on-his-iconic-role-as-lando-calrissian\/\">Billy Dee Williams<\/a> before the following day a preview of the film at the Dominion, the cinema where just two and a half years before, the original film had debuted in the UK on 27th December 1977.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TEmpire Strikes Back Exhibition plus meet &amp; greet by cast at Selfridges Department Store, London (Monday May 5th 1980). Special Preview performance of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back attended by the cast and both Director Irvin Kershner &amp; Producer Gary Kurtz (Tuesday May 6th 1980) Dominion Theatre, London.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also while we\u2019re in an <em>Empire<\/em> kind of mood, check out this <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/km7bpdOmpVc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pre-reel<\/a>, created by Odeon for the May 6th screening at the Dominion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (May 1980 Odeon Cinema Trailer Reel) -- Home Cinema\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/km7bpdOmpVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Released in UK cinemas in May 1980, this is a custom, recreated pre-reel for an Odeon Cinema presentation of \u2018The Empire Strikes Back\u2019, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams and Frank Oz.<\/p>\n<p>Director: Irvin Kershner<br \/>Writers: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan &amp; George Lucas<br \/>BBFC Certificate: U<br \/>Production Company: LucasFilm Ltd.<br \/>Distributor: 20th Century Fox<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.fanthatracks.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before The Empire Strikes Back arrived, Selfridges in London held a couple of special preview events, first with costumes from the film, Ralph McQuarrie pre-production artwork and on 5th May a book signing by the cast, including Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Dave Prowse, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams before the following day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2478273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[487774],"class_list":["post-2478272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-the-empire-strikes-back"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-UK-preview-events-Fantha-Tracks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478274,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478272\/revisions\/2478274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}