Star Wars Kid & Episode III?

samsarajr writes "Many of you would have seen that homemade yet ever so embarressing video of 15 Year old Ghyslain jumping around with a pretend lightsabre. Well - he's back and I think we all agree that Lucas should put the kid with the lightsabre into Star Wars III." I tell you this is the story that just won't die. But in all fairness, some of those re-edits were hysterical.

Just Fixodent and forget it

[Faust7]

So far more than 83,000 people have put their names to an online petition that they're planning on sending to Star Wars director George Lucas.

Yes, and how many people do you think petitioned Lucas to put the original versions of the trilogy on DVD?

it almost doesnt matter

[WormholeFiend]

i was already debating whether or not to see episode 3 at all, considering my disappointment with Ep 1 and 2...

i guess i'll still go see it just because it s the end of that trilogy, and on the off chance that Lucas might save the day with an incredible movie, but i'm not holding my breath.

having ghyslain in it would be great poetic justice for the ppl who made fun of him, i suppose, but that would require ghyslain to actually want to be in it too...

He should be glad

[SerpentDrago]

Poor Kid ? !

He's famous , hell I wish i could have done something to make me that famous. If it was me i'd be having a hell of a good time with it . sure its embarrassing at first , but hell just have fun with it !.

I'd agree It would be great if he got the starwars3 cameo.

That's not all...

[pdaoust007]

The guys at waxy.org [waxy.org] also used donations [waxy.org] from the public to buy the guy a 30G iPOD and $3600CDN worth of Future Shop gift certificates.

Poor kid?

[rikkards]

It sucked what happened to him but since then he has had some good things happen to him:
1. He got an ipod from sympathetic souls which was nice and
2. His parents are suing the family of the kids who uploaded the movie to the net for everything they've got
3. He learned something Pam and Tommy should have learned: be careful what you video tape because someone could end up exploiting you for it.

I think it would be nice if he got a walkon but I don't really feel sorry for him anymore

Nah.

[TragicAnt]

Maybe if he hadn't gotten lawsuit happy [globeandmail.com], I'd still have an ounce of sympathy for him. As it stands, I couldn't care less about poor little Star Wars Kid's hurt feelings. If acting like a retard made one eligible for a Star Wars cameo, I'd be popping up the the background of nearly every scene.

Re:Petition

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't you want to sign it then since his family doesn't want him to do it? No signing it kinda supports the family. The interesting thing is that they did violate the kids copyright.

Re:Petition

[cethiesus]

Most stories have his parents doing the suing on their own accord. I haven't heard a word about how the kid actually feels or if he even wanted to take legal action. My thoughts are that he didn't, because it would give his already-trampled private life that much more public exposure.

I could very well be wrong, so anyone have any info about the kid?

Re:Petition

[stuntpope]

Yes, the lawsuit by the kid's parents made me roll my eyes at first, but you know what? (quick IANAL here) - there's such things as photo releases, and the parents may have grounds for action here. I was at a festival where a photographer took a pic of my kid and then approached me to sign a release in case they wanted to put the photo on their website. If you aren't a public figure, you can take legal action if a photo of you is published without your consent (and in the case of minors, a parent's consent). Especially if the photo is embarrassing, or someone is profitting of the use of your picture. Makes me wonder about the validity of those porn sites whose angle is "we fooled these girls to have sex then put the pics on the Internet against their wishes."

petition for what to do with Ghyslain' parents

[LostYouth]

This has always bothered me when parents try to go this far with protecting their little boy from humiliation. Everyone has to deal with it so deal with it. This kids situation might be a little different from us, but in a way it isnt. This will go away in a very short time now just like everything everyone has had to deal with, unless of course he's offered and takes a movie part. The fact that this kid's parents are going after everything the posting kids families have is NOT justifiable. Anyway, maybe Im the only one who feels this way. Someone should be hired to video tape something embarassing that the parents are doing and post it the day the parents lose in court.

Re:Petition

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, also notice that the anonymous donor who gave an amazing $500 to the cause, asked for his/her money back when news of a lawsuit came out. I agree with them.

If the kid stopped being a baby about it and accepted the fact that he's a celebrity and most people love him, then I'd love to see him in the new Star Wars movie. However, since he obviously doesn't know how to deal with it and because his parents are suing, I will be very disappointed if he shows up.

He's not the first person to be publicly humiliated in school and not be able to avoid the taunting...

It's obvious

[falsification]

It's obvious. Ghyslain should be cast as the young Wedge Antilles.