It's been laid out, argued for and against, and restated again and again. It's hardly worth going into detail about what makes The Empire Strikes Back a good film. It would be terribly interesting to see something closer to Brackett's take, but the version fans got is the one that revolutionized sci-fi to this day.
Lawrence Kasdan, late of Raiders of the Lost Ark, was brought in for the third draft. His version took into account his plans for a trilogy and excised elements of Brackett's. On a tight deadline and with nowhere else to turn, Lucas jumped in to make rewrites. Brackett tragically died of cancer in 1978, only a few weeks after sending in her first draft. Elements of her take on the sequel to Star Wars made it to the screen, but much of it didn't. Though unfairly lesser-known today, Brackett was popularly known as the "Queen of Space Operas" for her catalog of novels and short stories. The first draft of Empire was penned by sci-fi author Leigh Brackett.
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