Lucasfilm documents Ford proposing and refining Han’s reply with director Irvin Kershner. The exchange belongs to The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Ford’s contribution is the reply, not sole authorship of both speakers’ dialogue.
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Crediting only the screenplay writers erases a documented on-set contribution, but crediting the whole exchange solely to Ford would also overstate the evidence.
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What the evidence establishesHarrison Ford (Han Solo’s reply) Context
Lucasfilm documents Ford proposing and refining Han’s reply with director Irvin Kershner. The exchange belongs to The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Ford’s contribution is the reply, not sole authorship of both speakers’ dialogue. Check the evidence
✓Crediting only the screenplay writers erases a documented on-set contribution, but crediting the whole exchange solely to Ford would also overstate the evidence. Read the research
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Screenplay writers; Ford contributed Han Solo’s reply
Brackett and Kasdan hold the film’s screenplay credit. Lucasfilm documents Ford contributing Han Solo’s reply with director Irvin Kershner; this does not make Ford the sole author of the exchange.
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The Empire Strikes Back. 1980. Evidence and bibliographical details reproduced in the linked source; no independent access to an original edition is claimed unless stated.
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