Chill out, guys. Remember who directed ESB? Yeah, a total nobody. I would have hardly chosen Kershner based on his previous work but he delivered, heck, he directed the thing much better than Lucas would have. Too bad he didn't have much of a carreer after the film was done. And ROTJ? At least he had Eye of the Needle -which is good but the book is much much better- but that's hardly close to sci-fi/space-opera material. Lucas wanted people who would call the shots and work with the actors, but people he could control. Here's the same. They're hiring an unknown director to have control of. If the heads say Williams is scoring, this guy's got virtually no choice. And he's not gonna risk a high-paying gig like this in getting too much of his directing personality into the film either, so calm down. And besides, Ozymandias was a very nicely directed episode of BB. Probably among the best.
This relates to something I've been thinking about lately -- there should really be this massive John Williams Video Database, which assembled all the video footage of Williams over the years. You can find lots of stuff on Youtube and as DVD extras and stuff, but there's still so much more out there. It would be dozens, if not hundreds of hours of material. I imagine the Spielberg-shot recording sessions is a massive library all on its own. And the Pops shows.
