Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars 253
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."'"
reboot? (Score:5, Interesting)
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'
Re:It's a trap! (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.
Re:It's a trap! (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
Re:But (Score:5, 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.
Re:It's a trap! (Score:4, 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)
Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out (Score:3, Interesting)
Aren't Rodians all gangsters though? There's some Unfortunate Implications there.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfCopyhats [tvtropes.org]
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.