According to the documentary L'impero dei sogni: La storia della trilogia di Star Wars (2004), Steven Spielberg, who is a life-long best friend with George Lucas, was Lucas' first choice to direct, and even though Spielberg would have loved to direct a Star Wars movie, he was forced to decline because he is a member of the Directors' Guild (Lucas dropped his Guild membership over disagreements about L'Impero colpisce ancora (1980). As a result, Lucas hired the relatively unknown (and at the time, non-union) Welsh director Richard Marquand. Lucas was also impressed by Marquand's ability to bring in a movie on time and on budget, a very real concern of Lucas after the budget overruns experienced on The Empire Strikes Back.

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