Best "Star Wars" movie director dies

A fine career.

November 29, 2010 at 5:02PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Continuing this Monday morning parade of expiration, we bring more sad news:

Damn straight. He should have directed all of them. There's a reason "Empire" was the best of the original trilogy - Lucas didn't direct it, and he didn't write it, either. If nothing else, Kershner proved that age is no impediment to crafting pop-culture classics. To this day kids on the internets are quoting a movie made by a dude who was like over sixty when he made it. But he did more:

If George Lucas had directed "Locust Plague," there would have been a scene where a mile-wide cloud of bugs appears on the horizon, and the hero says "I have a bad feeling about this."

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