Irvin Kershner
1923 - 2010
Had the internet existed in the late 1970s, the hiring of Irvin Kershner as the director of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK would've at the very least occasioned a good deal of confusion. At most, it would've inspired a talkback riot. Kershner was in his mid-fifties at the time, and had generally made a name for himself as a proficient director of standard Hollywood entertainments - some of which weren't half-bad. He was solid. But he had never dabbled in the science-fiction or fantasy genres before, and seemed to represent the kind of old-school filmmaking that guys like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola were driving out of style.
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Irvin Kershner 1923 - 2010
Re: Irvin Kershner 1923 - 2010
Tia wrote:What?
He died. How hard is that to understand?
RIP. What is this, the third "celeb"? Damn you rule of three!