Darth Venal said:

Ghost said:

Darth Venal said:

shanerjedi said:

ESB is such a great looking fantasy film.

Great direction

Why didn't Irvin Kershner direct ROTJ? One can only wonder what it would of been.

Indeed. Kirschner might have been busy, I forget now. I know Lucas asked him if he wanted to direct Attack of the Clones, but Kirsch declined because of his age. Some people say that's a myth that Lucas asked him, but I was told from a pretty close source that it's true. If only again!

Lucas has much respect for Kersh. He even consulted with Kersh, albeit mostly during its creation, on the changes to the ESB:SE.

All of the changes, except for the end shuttle landing scene, came right from Kerh's "If I could only go back and fix things" list for ESB. The Wampa. The digimattes to open up Cloud City. All of the enhancements. Those are all things he wanted to do originally but just couldn't do. And he hated the Wampa stuff.