Disney buys LucasFilm! New Star Wars movie in 2015!

I think episodes 7-9 will be set decades after RotJ, so I suspect they'll use Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher and maybe Harrison Ford, too, if he'll accept the truckload of money they'll offer.

I almost kinda wish they'd recast the roles, though. I'd like to see the further adventures of a young Luke Skywalker. If they do re-cast, they should find unknowns. NO ONE mentioned so far is even remotely suitable.

 

If Disney is going to discard the EU and 'clean slate' it, then better to do a totally clean slate- no recasts or reboots. I'll buy the old crew in mentoring roles (aka Obi-Wan), but 7-9 should deal with the next gen of Jedi, complete with new villains and threats. (Or the remnants of the Empire, whatever.) But make it fresh, new, exciting, while keeping to the lore that is SW. (Music, text crawl, etc...)

 

My choice to play the new Han Solo:

 

I'm going to write the movie. Not that other guy.

 

Carrie Fisher is going to play 7 of 9???

 

I am going to have to respectfully disagree with your first sentence, but simultaneously agree with your last sentence. Ewan McGregor did a hell of a job in Star Wars II and III as Obi-Wan, despite the shitty writing and direction he was given. I have no problem with a new and much older actor playing Luke, but I honestly do not see Leia nor Solo having any part in the new trilogy. I feel like their stories were more or less completed, but Luke still had somewhat of a story left with rebuilding the Jedi. However, given Mark Hamill's increasing age, I can also settle for a performance from him. I would rather see a more accomplished elderly actor, but I would have no problem with him.

Having said that, let's go back to your last sentence. I completely agree that this new trilogy should entirely focus on a new generation of Star Wars characters, with the intro being Luke's character (played by a much older actor for at least one movie). Some sort of reintroduction of the Jedi would make sense, with Luke being very old in age along the lines of Obi-Wan. He would appear much the same as Obi-Wan, even down to Luke's refusal of shaving his Jedi beard with the Merkur TTO 2200 Vision Razor, which would be a bit of unexpected product placement, but might also prove timely outside of the movie during our present period of anti-Islamist attitudes. After all, what other religion do we most readily associate with beards? It would be an interesting choice, but it would ultimately be up to Disney, which has finally come around and started accepting facial hair.

 

Why do you need an older actor to play Luke? Mark Hamill is 61 now.

[EDIT] And seriously, the visionrazor trolling is getting old.

 

aged Luke as Obi-Wan type Guru?

Michael Caine of course.

 

I think Hamill is quite capable of pulling it off. McGregor was excellent as young Obi Wan, but the PT was backing up to an earlier time period and needed a younger actor. The NuTrilogy takes place after the OT. The biggest thing Hamill might have to do is drop a few pounds.

 

For some reason I thought he was in his 50s. 61 is an adequate age to play Old Luke (with some makeup). I expect Old Luke to be in at least his 100s.


My reasoning for an older actor to play Luke is such an actor would be better than Mark Hamill. Honestly, other than Star Wars, what other acting role has he been in? I wouldn't be opposed to Mark Hamill playing an Old Luke, but I would much rather see an experience actor playing him.

Not any older than nostalgia in the confederacy, surely?

 

Hamill has been doing a fair amount of actibg over the years, and voice for animated shows. Seeing as he pretty much made the role of Luke in 1977, I don't see why he couldn't reprise it.

I don't seem to recall bringing up the subject of the Confederacy.

 

Unless they plan on episode 7 following shortly after the events in episode 6, Luke needs to be played by Hamel. I don't want to sound fanboyish, but it's quite unreasonable to suggest anybody else for the role. Sure, he's not a first tier actor, hut he is Luke fucking Skywalker!

 

Nah, Jedi bathrobes hide a lot of imperfections.

 

Mark Hamill not only made a huge name for himself as a voice actor over the last 30 years, but as a Broadway actor as well. He played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway before it was turned into a movie.

It makes perfect sense to have Hamill play Luke in his 60's like Obi-Wan as a mentor to new Jedi. However, I would still like to see him have a large role in the new movies and not just a glorified cameo. It's Luke Fucking Skywalker we're talking about here.

That's the thing about the OT that was light-years ahead of the PT. At least 2 out of the 3 movies were good enough to make you care about the characters all of these decades later.

An no offense to Ewan MacGregor whom I like as an actor, but he was completely wasted in those shitty prequel films. Those movies did their pathetic best to make you believe he was the real Obi-Wan, but it was not even a pale imitation of the greatness that Alec Guiness brought to the role. The PT Obi-Wan was a a baffoon.

 

To continue my earlier misgivings, and perhaps spark a debate, what could the story be? The Sith are all dead. Do they come back or what?

 

Everyone was a baffoon in the PT.

I wanted to see Palpatine win because he was a true genius, not because the good guys were drooling imbeciles.

It was like a bad horror movie where everyone dies because they're retarded.
(Suffered through a Jason Voorhees marathon on Halloween, man, those suck).

 

All you need to bring back the Sith, is for some of Luke's students to go emo.

 

Other than Obi-Wan Kenobi, as far as we knew in the first movie all the Jedi were dead.

 

There are a variety of plot mechanisms that could bring back the Sith, some of which have been used in extended universe novels. But there is a whole galaxy (or per New Jedi Order) a whole second galaxy, from which they can draw villains. The sith aren't necessary to 7-9.

 

Being a brainless punk, crashing his uncle's '63 Sand Raider into Beggars Canyon . . .

They come back as spirits . . . that possess the Ewoks!

Scads of Ewoks overrunning the galaxy, flipping around like Yoda and decapitating everyone with their lightsabers (are they darksabers if they're used by Sith? No, wait, that was a book). Hilarious? Definitely!

 

Regarding the question of Harrison Ford, many years ago I read an interview in which he said he had no interest in reprising Han Solo, but that he'd make another Indiana Jones movie "in a New York minute." I think it's very unlikely that he's changed his mind. I'd like to see Hammel featured somewhat prominently, at least as prominently as Alec Guiness in Episode IV. Fisher should get a cameo, and the story should mostly be about the Han and Lea's children.

 

My biggest concern is the villain.

Unless they can come up with something as iconic and badass as Darth Vader, they're going to fail... even if they can get Hammill et al to reprise their roles.

One of the main problems with the prequel trilogy (and I know there's a loooong list of problems) was that they had completely shitty villains. Plus, the prequels turned badass Darth Vader from a tragic hero/villain into a whiny cunt.

 

Maul and Dooku were cool, but they both died off too fast.

 

Nope. They were lame.

 

Why? What more did you want? Rockets out their asses?

Look at Vader's lines in ROTJ written down, they're not too impressive.

James Earl Jones, and nostalgia, are fogging your vision.

 

Sidious was fucking cool.

 

Think about it... the first time we're introduced to Darth Vader, he saunters through the door of a captured ship and casually looks around at all the dead bodies. His entire body language screams, "this motherfucker is in charge." Then he lifts the captain off the floor, chokes him to death, and discards him like yesterday's underwear.

The next time we see Vader, he gets pissed off and chokes one of his own guys with his fucking mind.

Dooku was a doddering old fool.

Darth Maul was some freak in weird makeup and horns that screamed "I'm here to sell action figures". The only cool part about Maul was the double-lightsabre.

The real Darth Vader (not the fag in ROTJ and the prequels) would have eaten these two pansies for lunch and farted them out while blowing up an entire star system.

 

But Sidious is an OT villain, not just PT.

 

Oddly, the only character in the PT with any passion, or a goal.

 

You know how cool Darth Vader is? I saw five-year-old kids trick-or-treating this year in my neighbourhood dressed as Vader. I haven't seen a kid dressed as Maul in over ten years.