Return of the Jedi | Behind-The-Scenes Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg were considered to direct the film before Richard Marquand signed on as director. The production team relied on Lucas’s storyboards during pre-production. While writing the shooting script, Lucas, Kasdan, Marquand, and producer Howard Kazanjian spent two weeks in conference discussing ideas to construct it. Kazanjian’s schedule pushed shooting to begin a few weeks early to allow Industrial Light & Magic mo