When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

August 1979: Irvin Kershner is directing The Empire Strikes Back, aka Star Wars Episode V, on Stage 9 of Elstree Studios, England. Today’s scenes involve Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) meeting with Jedi Master Yoda. Kershner considers this sequence as “the heart of the picture,” as he explained to Alan Arnold in A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back… read more >