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Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars

Posted by samzenpus on from the what's-old-is-new dept.

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."'"

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  1. Keep Granpa Lucas Out by Massacrifice · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

      George Lucas promised that this time Jar Jar Binks would shoot first.

    2. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by RLiegh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why yes, sir, I am.

    3. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hooray!
      Jar Jar Bink will be shot first!

      * rereads sentence *

      oh... wait. :-(

    4. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by Noughmad · · Score: 2

      I wouldn't mind seeing Ford Prefect in this movie.

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    5. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by MatrixCubed · · Score: 2

      Greedo. He wasn't Italian, he was a Rodian.

    6. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by highUSERIDnewguy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why yes, sir, I am.

      Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

    7. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by mister_playboy · · Score: 3, Funny

      We're showing off our liver spots.

      Looks like I'll be in the "old half" of /. users soon enough... :)

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    8. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Aren't Rodians all gangsters though? There's some Unfortunate Implications there.

      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfCopyhats

      The Star Wars Expanded Universe uses this aggressively. With only three movies worth of content to start off with, writers had to create entire races based on minor extras that happened to have unique make-up.

      The most Egregious example? The Bothans. Their only appearance in the movies is Mon Mothma's line in Return of the Jedi: "Many Bothans died to bring us this information." From that single, offhand mention, EU writers whipped up an entire species whose entire society is based around spying and espionage.

      Star Wars has another Egregious example in Corellians, which is Han Solo's home culture. During the scene in the asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back, Han says "Never Tell Me The Odds", and from this some EU writer extrapolated that all Corellians hate statistics with a passion.

      It's the same in Star Trek. All Ferengi are greedy and unprincipled, all Klingons are violent, all Vulcans are clever but a bit machine like and brittle and so on. Importantly all the non human races are inferior politically and morally to humans in the long run - even the Vulcans start of running things but end up as science officers in a human run and founded Starfleet.

      David Irving - who someone once called 'not just a historian of Nazis but a Nazi historian'- said sarcastically he liked Lord of the Rings because it teaches children about race.

      Of course like always he's trolling. He knows the people who wrote Star Trek and Star Wars weren't racists or Nazis and that JRR Tolkien loathed the Nazis. Rather he's using the prevalence of lazy "planet of the hats" writing in sci fi and fantasy to make a subversive and rather nasty ideological point that those writers didn't intend to make.

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  2. oh awesome by smash · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  3. reboot? by hguorbray · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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'

    1. Re:reboot? by trout007 · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Thrawn Trilogy was pretty good.

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    2. Re:reboot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      zahn trilogy or gtfo

    3. Re:reboot? by isorox · · Score: 2

      now all they need is enough story and character to cover about 7 hours of movie for parts 7-9

      Why start now?

    4. Re:reboot? by dbIII · · Score: 2

      Bring on Abrams, he'll deliver the Jedi Mind Meld.

    5. Re:reboot? by TheSeatOfMyPants · · Score: 2

      No no no... have you any idea what happens when you mix light sabers and lens flares?

      Well, my theory is that's how Rainbow Brite came about in the 80s...or was that the result of light sabers and LSD?

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    6. Re:reboot? by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    7. Re:reboot? by unitron · · Score: 4, Funny

      "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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    8. Re:reboot? by redwraith94 · · Score: 2

      Scarlett Johansson as Mara Jade...diessss happpppy...

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    9. Re:reboot? by camperdave · · Score: 2

      Exactly. I couldn't watch the new Star Trek due to all the artificially inserted lens flares. And after I pointed them out to my roommate, they insisted we shut off the movie. It's like the first time someone points out blocky compression artifacts in dark colors to you on your new big screen pumping out "HD" cable. It's all you can see after that.

      Really? It's the lens flares that made it bad for you? Not the plot? Not the gaping deviations from canon? Not the ridiculous way that the captaincy is handed around based on who's in the turbolift, rather than who has the rank/seniority? It was the lens flares? Seriously?

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  4. He was misunderstood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:He was misunderstood by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · · Score: 2

      So they'd take the footage from the original films and rearrange it to make new stories? Beats using them as is - the pictures of the actors in TFA are a bit alarming. Hamill looks like a long haul trucker who's in great pain from attempting to digest a short stack of pancakes.

      Definitely tag this "NOOOOOOOOO!" Or is it "NOOOOO!"?

  5. Uh, oh... by mrsam · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I have a bad feeling about this.

    1. Re:Uh, oh... by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sir, the possibility of successfully creating a good new star wars movie is approximately 3,720 to 1!

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    2. Re:Uh, oh... by Abreu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Never tell me the odds!

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    3. Re:Uh, oh... by makubesu · · Score: 3, Funny

      These are not the actors you're looking for.

  6. I don't think Greedo's coming back. by Chas · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think he probably ended up as part of the next daily special at the cantina...

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    1. Re:I don't think Greedo's coming back. by meerling · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe he became a Saint. After all, he was dead and holy by that time.

  7. It's a trap! by mcgrew · · Score: 2

    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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    1. Re:It's a trap! by CncRobot · · Score: 5, Interesting

      She recently did a special called "Wishful Drinking", which is about her life, where she complained that someone on the internet say she looked like Elton John. She said it wasn't so much that they said it as much as she understood what they meant.

      She is actually pretty funny and it was a pretty good show.

    2. Re:It's a trap! by Lord+Kano · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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

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    3. Re:It's a trap! by Abreu · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Considering how Carrie Fisher and Mark Hammil look nowadays, the movies should be set 100 years after the Battle of Yavin!

      But seriously, watching them as secondary characters and possibly mentors to a new set of young heroes would be awesome.

      I'd like to see Leia as a tough-as-nails politician in Coruscant, Luke as head of a new Jedi order and Han still flying the galaxy with Chewbacca.

      (yes, I am ignoring the novels and comic canon)

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    4. Re:It's a trap! by ChrisMaple · · Score: 2

      Who would so cruelly insult Elton John?

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    5. Re:It's a trap! by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Funny

      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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    6. Re:It's a trap! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

      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?

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    7. Re:It's a trap! by bickerdyke · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't think Alice Cooper never ever had a career based on his good looks....

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    8. Re:It's a trap! by SternisheFan · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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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    9. Re:It's a trap! by Geeky · · Score: 3, Insightful

      He does, just in a different way.

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    10. Re:It's a trap! by mcgrew · · Score: 2

      As an actress, people expected her to be 23 forever.

      Well, the trouble isn't that she doesn't look 23, the trouble is she looks fifteen years older than I do, and I'm 4 years older than her. Coke and booze will do that to a person.

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  8. But by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did Han sign first?

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    1. Re:But by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 4, Interesting

      In the book, everyone else in the cantina starts backing away because they knew how foolish it was to let Han get his hands under the table.

      Everyone else in the story knew that Han was going to shoot Greedo except Greedo. That made his death hilarious. He went after a guy with a bounty without even doing his homework.

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  9. Re:Ford? by Miseph · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  10. Re:Ford? by westlake · · Score: 4, Informative

    While Fisher seems to have confirmed it. Can't see Hamill has anything else to do.

    Mark Hamill has become one of the most successful and sought after vocal talents in the business.

    Film and television animation, video games, audio books and so on. The definitive voice of The Joker.

  11. Who? by Kozz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You mean canon?

      Or um, you actually spell "Leia" as "Cannon"?

      That seems confusing.

    2. Re:Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      But you'll end up doing it with your Hans Solo ...

  12. Re:Ford? by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Informative

    yea, sure looks like Mark has been sitting on his but for the last 25+ years

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/

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  13. Re:Ford? by jbeaupre · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Han Solo didn't sign first?

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  14. WIlliam Shatner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:WIlliam Shatner by kat_skan · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

  15. JJ Abrams is a hack by globaljustin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  16. cryo sleep by goombah99 · · Score: 2

    They are found tumbling in space in lead line fridge.

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  17. in an ominous voice of command... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "these are not the old farts that you are looking for"

  18. ILM by kiriath · · Score: 2

    Has its work cut out for it if Fisher is going to be in it...

    "Guys we need a filter to make some look like not a fat coke head"

    "We better double the budget"

  19. Animation / Voice Actors by cstacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  20. Re:Ford? by Wolfrider · · Score: 2

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