5. Why did George Lucas hire the unknown Irvin Kershner to direct The Empire Strikes Back?

What most Star Wars fans seem to forget is that George Lucas has NOT always been a mega hyper wealthy multi multi billionaire with literally unlimited amounts of cash. In fact, Lucas had practically no significant money when he was desperately trying to finish the movie sequels to Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope. Lucas had less than $ 30 million U.S. dollars to self finance the production costs of Star Wars Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back

Finances were so limited for Lucas that he had ABSOLUTELY no ability to hire a well known and talented film director to helm The Empire Strikes Back. At the time in 1980, the top rated movie directors in Hollywood commanded salaries of between $ 2 million to $ 3 million U.S. dollars per film. Adjusted for monetary inflation for today's dollars, this would equal between $ 7 million to $ 10 million U.S. dollars now.

Lucas had less than $ 1 (one) million U.S. dollars to hire a film director for The Empire Strikes Back. The first choices Lucas wanted to direct The Empire Strikes Back turned Lucas down instantly because they weren't willing to direct The Empire Strikes Back for a tiny, tiny paltry salary.

Lucas didn't hire Irvin Kershner (Kersh) to direct The Empire Strikes Back because Lucas wanted it to be so. Lucas basically had no choice. Unfortunately, Lucas could either hire the very, very extremely economically cheap Kersh to direct The Empire Strikes Back or Lucas would have to direct the sequel to A New Hope himself.

Since filming A New Hope was a nightmare experience for Lucas, Lucas couldn't convince himself to direct again. The results were nearly catastrophic for Star Wars. Kersh's utter incompetence resulted in The Empire Strikes Back earning less than HALF the stellar unlimited box office gross in multiplexes of A New Hope.

In the end, the worst mistake Lucas has so far made in life is deciding NOT to direct The Empire Strikes Back himself. After the dreadful and disappointing results of The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas wrote and directed each movie episode of the Star Wars prequel trilogy in order to give Star Wars fans the genius vision of master film maker Lucas that they deserve.

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