Following the successful Star Wars radio drama from 1980, which gave the film a completely new opening act and explained how the Death Star plans were stolen, it’s no surprise that Empire would get a radio adaptation too.
Thanks to the 1983 radio drama, The Empire Strikes Back was given additional scenes, dialogue, and lore that added to the fledgling Star Wars Legends lore in the franchise’s early years and improved the story as a whole. The Empire Strikes Back is considered by many to be the greatest Star Wars film, but the movie was retroactively improved three years after its release.
