'Empire Strikes Back' Director Irvin Kershner Has Died
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by Mark Memmott
Director Irvin Kershner.
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Irvin Kershner, who directed The Empire Strikes Back.
Irvin Kershner, who directed 1980's Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, has died at the age of 87, the Associated Press reports.
He also directed the 1983 James Bond movie Never Say Never Again and RoboCop2.
When The Empire Strikes Back was released, reviewer Tom Shames said on NPR that "the film can only be recommended to all human life forms existing in the universe."
It is, as many of you will surely recall, the film that ends with a frozen Han Solo in the clutches of bounty hunter Boba Fett. It's also the film where we meet Yoda. Of the three original Star Wars films, it's many fans' favorite. And we learn about Luke's father.
That sucks, especially with Leslie Nielsen passing this weekend as well.
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One wonders how the rest of the movies would have been under his direction. Or maybe he was just the right guy for Empire and it's tone.
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Sad to hear him go. Empire was the highlight of the franchise and I dare say one of his best films. Certainly better then the other films they highlighted.
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One of the first videos I owned was the Star Wars trilogy on VHS; I got it as a reward for doing well in elementary school. Watching Empire really made me fall in love with Star Wars and science fiction.
Ghost Rider wrote:Sad to hear him go. Empire was the highlight of the franchise and I dare say one of his best films. Certainly better then the other films they highlighted.
On a lighter note, he had this cameo in On Deadly Ground:
