Secret Cinema Presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Secret Cinema Empire Strikes Back poster

Attention, London Star Wars fans! You won’t want to miss Secret Cinema’s latest project – an exciting multimedia event built around a cinematic showing of The Empire Strikes Back! Read on for more details…

 

 

Last summer in London, over 80,000 people turned out for Secret Cinema’s presentation of the ‘80s classic, Back to the Future. Now, they invite you to join them again, this time in a galaxy far, far away…

 

Audiences will be invited to journey through the world of Star Wars, which will conclude with a presentation of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Audiences will be transported into a richly detailed galactic space opera where they will become part of one of the most ambitious and dreamlike Secret Cinema experiences the UK has ever seen.

 

In Summer 2014, over 80,000 attended Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future event in the
Olympic Park, London where the world of Hill Valley had been brought to life with 20 designated set areas, a replica of the iconic Town Hall, a life-size high school and Lou’s famous diner.

 

Secret Cinema Presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back opened last week “in a secret London location” and will run through September 27th. Though there is no footage online yet of the venue for the ESB event, check out this vid of last year’s Back To The Future event – and bear in mind that the interactive Star Wars environment for this year’s extravaganza is reportedly twice the size of this one:

 

 

 

To further pique your interest, however, Secret Cinema did provide us with a few photos taken on their “set” for the ESB event.

 

Photo by Camilla Greenwell
Photo by Camilla Greenwell

 

Secret Cinema Empire Strikes Back event
Photo by AI Overdrive

 

Secret Cinema Empire Strikes Back event
Photo by Camilla Greenwell

 

The event has already placed ESB back into the UK’s top-10 box office list for the first time since the film’s 1997 Special Edition release.

 

Tickets for Secret Cinema presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back are available at: www.secretcinema.org/tickets. Anyone fortunate enough to be able to attend the event, please tell us all about it, either in the comments below or over a pint of Corellian ale at The Cantina! And stay tuned for our own review of the event at the end of the month.

 

Photo by Camilla Greenwell
Photo by Camilla Greenwell
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29 thoughts on “Secret Cinema Presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

  • June 11, 2015 at 11:08 pm
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    Wut

  • June 11, 2015 at 11:10 pm
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    Concept cloud city.

  • June 11, 2015 at 11:19 pm
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    Alrighty then

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:05 am
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    Looking forward to going to this

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:08 am
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    I wish I could annihilate the secret cinema. Funny that they used the wincest poster though.

    • June 12, 2015 at 2:27 pm
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      Can you not tell Luke and Han apart?

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:10 am
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    The poster of the post is one of the best artwork of Star Wars universe. Drives me crazy

    • June 12, 2015 at 12:25 am
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      agreed

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:12 am
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    DDUUUUUDDDEEE does the US do stuff like this? If not, WHY?!

    • June 13, 2015 at 10:08 pm
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      Yes, they’re called Star Wars conventions.

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:40 am
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    Seventy-eight quid! I don’t think so. I could almost by my own ship for that.

    • June 12, 2015 at 1:44 am
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      Yeah but who’s gonna fly it kid, you?

      • June 12, 2015 at 3:25 pm
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        You bet I could. I’m not such a bad pilot myself! We don’t have to sit here and listen…

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:47 am
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    One pic looks like the cantina in ANH and that other pic looks like Jabba’s palace in ROTJ
    Not quite ESB-themed exclusively, but, looks super cool nonetheless. Wish they had that kinda shit in the US!!!

  • June 12, 2015 at 6:41 am
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    The plan I hear is for Secret Cinema to bring ‘Back to the Future’ to the USA this year and ‘Empire’ next year. I check their website most days to see if they have announced one for Los Angeles!!

  • June 12, 2015 at 8:43 am
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    Umm. Are you answering a question?

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:18 pm
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    Is it a Special Edition ESB or the theatrical release?

    • June 12, 2015 at 2:29 pm
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      The last secret cinema showing was the ruined version, I believe. So no reason to get your hopes up for this one. At least it was the 1997 version. For Empire, some things got worse and some got better post-1997. But at least the color timing in 1997 was before they made the films blue and magenta.

  • June 12, 2015 at 12:27 pm
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    I’m off to see this with my wife and 7 year old daughter in September. I have not introduced my daughter to ESB yet. Although she has seen A New Hope.It will be quite cool to introduce her to the film at this event. Anyhow i havent seen Empire Strikes Back for a good five years. Ive been holding out to watch Adywan’s ESB and hopefully it will be released before september.

    • June 12, 2015 at 2:33 pm
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      well if your 7 year old daughter is like mine she will ask for a drink and start talking non stop at precisley the point Darth does the I am your father schtick…involved a hasty rewind and shocking realisation that she wasn’t paying any attention whatsoever to the film…
      damn it..
      also asked if the funny one with the long tongue and flappy ears was in it ‘cos he was really funny…
      No hope for her whatsoever..

  • June 12, 2015 at 2:29 pm
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    Been there on the first night. It’s great!

  • June 12, 2015 at 3:42 pm
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    I went to it a week ago and I can say it was absolutely amazing. The details and storyline that you live through (no spoilers) were amazing. Definately worth the money. Just remember; the more you interact and join in, the more it is worth the money!

  • June 12, 2015 at 4:47 pm
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    I can confirm that there will be an appearance by #LudosportEngland at many of these weekends for added Jedi authenticity 😉

  • June 12, 2015 at 5:08 pm
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    I love the way some of the yanks are having a fit because this isn’t happening on their country. Welcome to our world.

    • June 13, 2015 at 12:46 am
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      Yeah, that is true. we get Star Wars Celebration, but you guys get this and the friggin movies are filmed there!!! Also, I watched the Back To The Future video where it highlighted all of the people there, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how well done they made up everyone and the sets. Even a lot of the people looked American, but there were some people that still looked English, I don’t know what gives it away but sometimes you can just look at a person and tell they aren’t American, it’s also the same for you guys where if we try to do a set that’s supposed to be in England and it’s filled with American extras you can tell that they aren’t from England.

  • June 12, 2015 at 6:26 pm
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    absolutely! hard to be a nerd in the UK when there is so little nerdy geek outlets for us!!!

    • June 12, 2015 at 7:59 pm
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      Yeah bro. UK nerds United!

  • June 13, 2015 at 2:34 am
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    Expensive and not at all great!

  • June 16, 2015 at 6:50 pm
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    Ive been and it was incredible, its like a real life rpg, you live the events of ANH before watching Empire I wanna go back!

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