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Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars
93,000 writes "According to Yahoo, George Lucas has let slip that Han, Leia and Luke will return for the next Star Wars installment. From the article: 'Lucas backtracked, saying, "Maybe I’m not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them." Then he tried to cover his tracks: "I won’t say whether the negotiations were successful or not."'"
Luke, Han, Lea, Gweedo, hell, they can bring back the goddamn Ewoks if they want, as long they keep George Lucas himself out of the crew, they'll be fine.
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I await the space equivalent of whatever the title of that travesty of an imitation Indiana jones movie was that I wasted $15 on to see in the cinema.
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Hopefully this will allow for an Abrams style reboot of the franchise as has been done with Star Trek and pass the torch to new young actors who can hopefully age gracefully for the next 10-15 years...
now all they need is enough story and character to cover about 7 hours of movie for parts 7-9
I heard that some of the clone war writers were pretty good -or maybe alan Dean Foster???
-I'm just sayin'
What he said was that they may APPEAR in the next film, but what he means is that he's using footage from the first three movies, and digitally recreating them. The human actors will not be involved.
... I have a bad feeling about this.
I think he probably ended up as part of the next daily special at the cantina...
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While Fisher seems to have confirmed it. Can't see Hamill has anything else to do. But how much are they going to pay Ford to do the work?
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I saw this on TV this morning... damn but Carrie Fisher looks older than me. You guys who thought the prequels ruined your childhood...
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The next three installments will be sponsored by Slim Fast after negoiations with Jenny Craig fell through.
Did Han sign first?
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There is no such thing as bad publicity. It's a fake leak.
Try different characters: Ford as Bob Falfa, Fisher as Jake's ex-fiancée, and Hamill as the Joker
I learned recently that George used the money from the sale to Disney for charitable donations (mostly education), saying that he had enough money already. I think that is rather impressive.
So, is Fisher playing a Hutt..?
Oooooooooooo........
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I hope the old characters are integral to the plot and don't just appear in a token torch-passing at the start. I'm hoping more like Obi-Wan in the original movie.
Please, oh, please let them be in some cameo, secondary or supportive-only roles. The last thing Episode VII needs to be is Return of the Geriatrics.
Seriously, who the fuck is "Lea"?
I know it's too much to ask the Slashdot editors to check their work, but how did THAT misspelling make it past how many geeks' eyeballs?
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Seriously, thanks for the IMDB link - I would have never known that Hamill and McDiarmid got along on set because they both liked British Comedies otherwise.
I'm now picturing a weird seen where the Emperor is cackling over an episode of Are You Being Served?
Is Lucas part of this? Dear god, Jar Jar will show up for sure.
Damn you Disney, you had ONE chance to get rid of him!
Now that JJ Abrams is directing both Star Wars and Star Trek, can we get William Shatner to play a villain in the new Star Wars movie just for the entertainment value of the fan bases exploding at each other?
Curse your filthy mouth for saying this:
"Hopefully this will allow for an Abrams style reboot..."
JJ Abrams is all hype and money. His concepts are all a tease with no substance. Substance comes of course, but in his projects what we usually call 'plot', 'writing', etc are slapdash afterthoughts. He benefits from the fact that ~60% of the population will watch whatever is playing in theaters that week due to artificial scarcity of film choices.
I'm not even a Star Wars fanboi...if anything I'll claim to be a Trekkie. If you have any notion of Star Trek as a franchise and why fans like it, the 10 Minute Star Trek 2 trailer that played before The Hobbit should be all you need to see: http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/12/19/star-trek-into-darkness-first-trailer-rewind-theater
JJ Abrams is shit. That doesn't mean his projects are doomed. In the big-budget studio world, franchises like this become so monolithic it usually prevents stupid shit like Abrams' ridiculous lens flare fetish. Put any random 30-something film buff in his chair and let him bark orders and bullshit concepts for action scenes and you'd get the same result.
IMHO, Abrams' shit tendencies will *not* ruin Star Wars like they ruined Star Trek. Too many people with money on this understand how shitty Abrams is...
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...Michael J Fox back in the Future with BTTF-4 , Every diehard fan wanted it, me too in the last 5 years after the third movie. Now he's an old man, heavily into political satire and parkinsons.
My point is, as much as I'd LOVE to see another Star-Wars with the original cast, I can't imagine Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill as they were back in the days in a new Star-Wars movie. The biggest problems with returning actors and sequels is usually the actors own ego, they always want to appear 10-20 years younger than they really are, and it always flops big-time, the only one believing that this actually works out...is themselves in their dreams.
Now...the BIGGEST hope, if you REALLY want the original cast in ANY movie, will be 3D models and animation, we've got the gear, we've got the motion capture stuff needed, now all we need - is the biggest badass renderfarm in history...and it just might work.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
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"these are not the old farts that you are looking for"
What gives? They want to recycle the old quote "When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not" and put it in the mouth of Solo? For crying out loud, Ford is 70 years old! Hamill is 60 and Fisher 55, in most countries they qualify for retirement. And they should play action heroes?
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Disturbing, of course. Have an equally compelling story/lesson. A mother's fear when she loses her child. A warrior's trepidation when he murders his first opponent.
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The silly stupidity of the prequel Episodes has sunk star wars completely.
For anyone still interested in Star Wars, Adywan's ESB:Revisited is due out in a couple of months. A preview with comparison to the crappy Blu Ray is here (switch on HD).
One rather impressive changelog so far.
These aren't original preservation attempts, rather new Special Editions or, more accurately, what the Special Editions should have been.
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Has its work cut out for it if Fisher is going to be in it...
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Jabba the Slut?
The last Star Wars movie was entirely a CGI animated feature-length cartoon. Is there some reason to believe that the sequel movies will be live action, and not CGI? Obviously, if it's animation then the appearance of the original actors is not a factor; they will be voice actors. This is Disney we're talking about, after all.
So Abrams is not directing anymore?
He wasn't by any chance killed along with Lilliput and Orcish when a burning piano dropped on their heads?
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From the musings of some of you, I had the impression he would be looking like a humanoid Jabba.
I think their features would be suitable for a series set AFTER the Jedi Twins had kids and their characters are grandparents. Especially since, to keep some tension plot going, they've been in universe-destroying war almost constantly for 40 years.
The downer would be trying to keep them as the same action figures they were in the Original Trilogy. They should be working more like The OT Yoda. They can't beat people up like they used to, but they learned how to use what they can still do to win. They've learned and grown. To be honest, I think that's one reason I didn't watch the last Indiana Jones movie: it was an old man pretending he was the same action actor he was a generation ago. Look at Sean Connery's role in the third movie: he wasn't an action figure, but he still was competent.
I hope that Lucas keeps the heck away from the new movies.
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No Billie Dee Williams? But he's got no work all the time.
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Why is George even talking about this? It scares me that he's involved at all...
Who cares if these old actors return, R2D2 is all I want to see (and hear) back! Give him some shiny new Li-ion batteries and he should be bleeping with delight!
...if only they could try to not break the extended universe. If they would maintain the extended universe then, aside from being respectful to fans and authors (who have painstakingly ensured continuity), some of those stories would make good movies.
But, alas, no. And that irritates me.
I like the actors, and while I do think it's a great continuity nod to get them involved, I can't help but feel like the fact that they are so much older than how they appeared in 1983 is going to introduce a disconnect where people who knew the characters are not going to be able to connect with those characters in any kind of meaningful way, because there haven't been any movies with those characters for 30 years. It feels like a continuity nod for its own sake rather than for the sake of making it a better story, because so much time has gone by that I see no real way that people are likely to feel like these are the characters that they were once familiar with.
I mean, maybe it'd be easier for people who were already well into their adulthood when those movies came out, but I know from personal experience that just meeting up with a friend you had as a teenager and you haven't seen in 20 years feels strange, because you feel like you should be able to reform a connection to that person, but the sheer quantity of time that has gone by without any contact has created such a large disconnect that simply seeing them again after so long has no real hope of re-establishing any sort of feeling of familiarity.
Seriously, I think that if they are using the original actors like this to involve those characters, they would be better off doing it it as an animated feature... perhaps with realistic computer graphics, than hoping that viewers will ever somehow have any sort of connection to these characters.
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JJ will make it so.
Has everyone forgotten Tron: Legacy already, specifically the 'rejuvenating trick' Disney pulled on Jeff Bridges? They already have the technology, they can make these characters look any age they want.
Forget the movie, put them all on Dancing with the Stars (Wars). R2 would win.
you missed/ignored/didn't read that part of my post did you?
go ahead and re-read my **entire** post, think about it, and come back....**waits a few minutes**
just because something 'makes money' doesn't mean it isn't total and complete shit...you have to look at WHY...you do realize people do something called 'game the system' right?
ex: a shitty restaurant can last for decades in the right location, but a restaurant could have the *best* concept ever and give the best service, cheapest prices, etc. and not succeed.
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What would be a VERY interesting seventh SW movie is one exploring the power wacuum created after the death of Emperor Palpatine, with high-level ex-Empire generals trying to seize power for themselves (remember, there's no more Senate) and the Rebel Alliance exploding from political rivalries now that the spoils of wars are to be shared.
With the Jedi Knights eradicated and reduced to a very young man with a short training, there is no more centralized force bearing any legitimity to use coercition to keep things together...
While Luke would certainly take rebuilding the Jedi Order as his main duty, there would be much disagreement over who should "help" him to do that and to how to do it.