Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars 253
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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."'"
Re:reboot? (Score:3, Insightful)
zahn trilogy or gtfo
Re:Ford? (Score:5, 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.
Who? (Score:5, 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?
Re:Uh, oh... (Score:5, Insightful)
Sir, the possibility of successfully creating a good new star wars movie is approximately 3,720 to 1!
WIlliam Shatner (Score:5, Insightful)
JJ Abrams is a hack (Score:5, 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 [ign.com]
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...
Re:Who? (Score:2, Insightful)
You mean canon?
Or um, you actually spell "Leia" as "Cannon"?
That seems confusing.
Re:It's a trap! (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think Alice Cooper never ever had a career based on his good looks....
Animation / Voice Actors (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It's a trap! (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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"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
Re:It's a trap! (Score:4, Insightful)
He does, just in a different way.