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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.
I haven't healed from Howard the Duck yet.
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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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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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"Green peppers man!"
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Did Han sign first?
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So Han Solo didn't sign first?
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"these are not the old farts that you are looking for"
When 900 years old you are, look as good you will not. It should be 900 years after Yavin. Because look as good, he does not.
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I understood her frustration. As an actress, people expected her to be 23 forever. On top of that, the years of hard drinking took a toll on her body and face so she aged TERRIBLY. I was hurt, personally hurt when I saw what all those years of drinking did to what I once regarded as one of the most beautiful women ever.
LK
So we shouldn't expect any chain bikinis this time around?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Following a galaxy-wide financial crisis, Jar Jar Binks goes rogue, demanding the government honour his pension, holding Queen Leia and her consort Han Solo hostage on board a cargo ship. An ageing Luke Skywalker is recalled from Tattoine in pursuit of Binks, piloting a vintage last-millenium Falcon. This rust-bucket hasn't seen a mechanic in 30 years. A malfunction in the hyperdrive creates a temporal vortex. sending the ships of Binks and Skywalker back 60 years to when Obi Wan was still a young man.
The vortex dumps them in orbit of planet Naboo, where out of the cockpit Luke glimpses his parents Padme and Anakin undergoing a secret wedding. He fires on Jar Jar's ship, which bursts into flame and crashes into the lake retreat, thus killing Jar Jar, Padme and Anakin. Han and Leia are ejected into the lake shortly before impact.
C3PO and R2D2 are unscathed. Realising the paradox of accidentally killing his parents before conception, Luke exclaims "Nooooooooooooooooo!" immediately before he and Leia's existence is erased from history. Solo emerges from the lake alone.
And so any recollection of episodes 1-3 are instantaneously erased from the audience's memories thus creating a parallel timeline.
But you'll end up doing it with your Hans Solo ...
"The only advantage Abrams would have is that it would be hard to make it worse."
Do not underestimate the power of lens flares.
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Ooh now there's a thought. We could finally settle that Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer argument. Vader could become the Borg queen. Find a way to shoehorn Picard in as well so he can have a pod racing scene. All the people in this thread saying Abrams couldn't do any worse than Lucas already has are gonna feel pretty silly.