who directed episode II?

yahoo says some stephen herekk dude...who is he?

go to this page and look in the right where it says "directed by:.."

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/starwars.html

they are probably wrong, very wrongo

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What the???

Where do you come up with this shit?

GL directed it. That's wrong info on that site.

Say what? April 1st was a while ago.

yup GL did it alright

I read Stephen Herek was the guy who directed "101 Dalmatians".

How could GL not direct his PT movies?

Well, he did say he wasn't going to... but chnaged his mind.

Irvin Kershner is still my favourite SW director.

He's the one from ESB right?

Yup.

GL originally planned to direct the first and last ones (twhen the last one was number nine); doubly so after the heart attack he hads during the original. But he ended up doing so much work on ROTJ anyway he decided he may as well be back in the seat for TPM. I'm not convinced that him doing the WHOLE prequel trilogy is a fantastic idea.

Yeah, I'd like to see someone else do Ep3. Just for the diversity another director could bring to the table.

keep dreaming.

The only reason Lucas directed Episode II was because TPM got such a piss-poor review. He wanted to prove that he could still make a good film, so he directed AotC.

Do you think Lucas cares what critics think? Hell, everyone in Hollywood hates him. Lucas was never going to give the directing job to anyone else.

Kerschner was basicly the guy who said "action" and "cut". Lucas still was the final say on everything.

ESB would have been the same movie, no matter who directed it.

Complete and utter pap. Kershner's contribution to ESB was immense.

ESB was the brainchild of FOUR people- Lucas, Kasdan, Kershner and Kurtz.

You tell him Ush!

Absolutely. Kersher devised and designed all the action sequences as well. Lucas told him even never to mind FX restrictions and just make up the scenes as he would see fit. They got into some arguments later on, but that very approach made ESB look and work as it did, which is VERY VERY much Kershner.

Oh and Ush, you're forgetting one very important name in that last of people who made ESB: Leigh Brackett who wrote the first script draft before dying.

You guys obviously don't know what you are talking about. What action sequences in ESB? There wasn't a space battle, and the Hoth ground battle was pretty lame until the special editions came out(which Kerschner had no part in). And don't worry that will be redone yet again for the DVD's.

It wasn't a very action packed SW film. Yet still the best, until May of course.

You mean ESB isn't a very action packed film?
Wow...I've always thought it was the most action packed SW. It doesn't matter there isn't a huge battle. It's still action all the way through unlike all the others.

But I think it's true GL did most of the work for episodes 5 and 6. GL just that kind of a guy, who doesn't want anyone to mess with his movies.

It was the best film of the OT, with the least action. I believe that Episode II will be the best film until maybe Episode III.