The Return of Chewbacca

BrunoC writes "It's official! Peter Mayhew is going to play everyone's favorite wookie once again: Chewbacca is returning in Episode III, currently in pre-production phase. Peter says (quoted from StarWars.com) "I'm delighted to return as Chewbacca, I think his re-appearance in this film is a fitting way to tie the whole saga together, especially for Wookiee fans." Woa! Just for the records: Artoo and C-3PO will be there too! You can read the official annoucement here, at StarWars.com."

Comments

Please

[starseeker]

Let Chewbacca take out Jar-jar! Please? I'd pay money to see that.

Re:Please

[kzinti]

Cool idea! Kinda like a 21st-century successor to Bambi Meets Godzilla - but with lots of cool computer-rendered Jar-Jar-frag-guts as Chewie tears him to bits. "Meeza Gonna DIE!"

Great

[Captain Rotundo]

And with this Lucas's conversion to the dark side will be complete. Does he really have to shit all over every character from the original trilogy by associating them with the crap he's been making?

I'd rather see chewbacca appear in a romantic comedy with sandra bullock before the shit that will be Episode III. at least then the plot would most likely make sense to anyone over the age of three.

Re:Great

[Henry V .009]

Your post is marked funny, but it's actually pretty sad. The new movies were written by a completely different author than the guy who wrote the original Star Wars. My guess is that the Earl of Oxford wrote Star Wars, and Lucas is just some hack.

Remember:

[rune2]

Always let the wookie win....

What a wookie.

[iomud]

If Chewbacca is a wookie, you must acquit.

What about...

[fishrokka]

...the rest of Chewie's family? Here's hoping Maula, Itchy, and Lumpy will also be making return appearances.

Lucas to Mayhew

[ath0mic]

Lucas points to casting room:

"I don't care what you smell... get in there"

Re:My God, the spoilers!

[DA-MAN]

A great many bothans died to get this information across, and you dare to complain?!?!

Re:how stupid

[bigdavex]

C-3PO was actually made by Anakin and just happened to be on the ship that was attacked near Tatooine and end up on Luke's farm? Now Chewbacca is going to show up, as a "coincidence?"

I think you have a very insightful point here. For me, the galaxy stopped feeling big after Empire. There are lots of examples:
Why the hell was Lando suddenly a general? Didn't the rebels have a command structure.

But . . . I think the particular example of the droids showing up at Tatooine has an explanation. Leia is taking the plans to Obi-wan. Obi-wan intentionally lives near Luke.

The real head-scratcher is why would Luke be on Tatooine. Yeah, his uncle's there, but your step-father's house doesn't seem like the best place to hide someone, given the whole galaxy to choose from.

Somebody once suggested that Obi-wan and Vader are really in league (against the emperor and Yoda, the latter of which I think is a real stretch.)

But try this on for size:

Suppose Obiwan and Vader are really in league against the Emperor in episodes 4-6.

Consider this --

• Sometime after episode 2, Obiwan "hides" Luke on Vader's *home planet*. At his step father's house.
  
  
• Vader "intercepts" a rebel ship, and then his daughter and droids leave with the plans to the Death Star.
  
  
• Vader and Obiwan's duel distracts the Storm Troopers, allowing the heroes to escape the Death Star on the Falcon.
  
  
• All of Imperials on the Death Star die except for the super-human pilot Vader, who "crashes" into his wingman, freeing up the shot for his son.
  
  
• In episode 5, Vader shows he's a heartless SOB . . . by choking to death a slew of Imperial officers and sending the Imperial fleet into an astroid
  field.
  
  
• In episode 6, Vader consciously allows the rebels to land on the moon of Endor.
  
  
• On the new Death Star, Vader says a bunch of things to Luke that don't support this hypothesis, so please ignore them.
  
  
• Vader, in the Jedi tradition, throws the emperor down A Really Big Hole.

Re: Ahhhh...

[Blondie-Wan]

... now, this is the kind of debate that makes Slashdot Slashdot... ;-)

New Explanation

[Daetrin]

Han Solo can't actually understand Wookie. Chewbacca understands english just fine, so he knows what Han is saying to him, but Han is just pretending that he knows what Chewbacca is saying back. So the whole time Chewie is saying things like "Skywalker? I think i met his dad twenty years ago!" and Han just tells him to go fix a stabalizer or something.

C3PO either can't understand R2-D2, or for some reason chooses not to communicate what he says, so R2-D2 is running around saying things like "Watch out Luke! Vader is your father!" and "Hey Yoda! How's it hangin?" and Threepio doesn't bother to translate them.

Maybe Threepio is still secretly loyal to Vader and doesn't want to tip Luke off?

Re:My God, the spoilers!

[voixderaison]

There are lots of people intentionally avoiding all information about Star Wars.

There are even more people desperately trying to forget everything they know about Episode I & Episode II, and still more offering to chip in so Lucas can afford a script writer for Episode III.