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Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner Dies at 87

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-come-in-threes dept.

bigredradio writes "Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner died at his home in Paris after suffering from illness, his goddaughter Adriana Santini confirmed to the AFP Monday. He was 87."

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  1. May the Force... by lag10 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    be with him.

  2. I felt a great disturbance in the Force by tedgyz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

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  3. Re:Sad day by EricTheRed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They always go in threes. First LN, now IK. Who's #3?

    Sir Maurice Wilkes - one of the early programming pioneers of the 1940's?

    From The National Museum Of Computing, Bletchley Park twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/tnmoc/status/9283716039843841

    Sad news that today Sir Maurice Wilkes passed away, aged 97. Here he was on a visit last year to #TNMOC http://ow.ly/3gUD2

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  4. Coincidence? by tverbeek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just added Forbidden Planet to my Netflix queue, and noticed Empire was one of the "more like this...." features. Spooky. Was this because it also featured the work of a just-deceased person? Or did God just order up the same movie, and decided that he wanted "more like this" and took Kershner too? If it's the latter, then Bill Shatner and/or Leondard Nimoy may be in trouble, because The Search for Spock was suggested next to Empire; and Rod Taylor of the 1960 The Time Machine (also suggested to me) is getting on in years, and might want to be extra careful for a while as well.

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  5. Re:Sad day by Enderandrew · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Honestly, I think Brian Singer has a hard-on for 70's sci-fi and could make new Star Wars films that look and feel like the original trilogy.

    The prequels look too clean and modern in contrast.

    Last I heard, Singer walked away from Logan's Run and wanted to do a new reboot on Battlestar Galactica, ignoring the new SyFy iteration, and stay closer to the original series.

    You could set a new trilogy 20-30 years in the future with Luke as the old master now. Harrison Ford has repeatedly said he would never go back to Star Wars, but I think you might talk him into a single scene cameo that explains why he is largely out of the picture.

    If you got Timothy Zahn to work with Lucas on stories/scripts, I think the fans would buy in.

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  6. One of the last guys to tell George to stuff it... by GPLDAN · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Solid article on Kershner and his push-pull relationship with Lucas:


    http://www.salon.com/entertainment/col/srag/1999/05/13/kershner

    Kershner was too ill to accept Lucas' offer to direct Phantom Menace. One wonders what his sensibilities for human drama and actual tension would have done to that cartoon.