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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."'"
Do you really think they wouldn't be able to afford him? This is a new Star Wars movie being made by Disney, they can and will spend whatever amount of money they need to get whatever it is they want, and they'll still turn a profit even if it sucks.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
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?
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Sir, the possibility of successfully creating a good new star wars movie is approximately 3,720 to 1!
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
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...
Thank you Dave Raggett
As rubycodez says, "drinking" isn't the primary recreational drug involved, but yeah. 'S a shame.
But counter to stereotypes of the aging ex-starlet, she does seem to be a truly nice person, and is taking/has taken the let-down a lot better than I would ever have.
And she has survived her drinking/drug days, and has grown into a better person, that's more than you can say about a lot of celebrities. I give her props just for that. Not a quitter, Princess Leia is.
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