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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. Sad day by Bobnova · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A sad day, that was the best movie of the series IMO. Too bad he didn't do more of them.

    1. 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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  2. I hope that this experience by Haedrian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will make him more powerful than ever.

  3. Re:RIP by imakemusic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wikipedia is your friend.

    Some friend! It keeps asking me for money!

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    Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
  4. 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.