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Another Star Wars movie??

Matt1970

Matt1970

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Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill will all return to the Star Wars galaxy, George Lucas told Bloomberg Businessweek.

The film series' original stars had hinted they would be up for reprising their roles in the outer-space adventure before, but Lucas made it seem as though at least a few members of the trio have already signed the dotted line.

In fact, they may have boarded "Episode VII," as its known to the Star Wars faithful, before Disney plunked down over $4 billion to buy Lucasfilm last December.



"We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison -- or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation. So I called them to say, 'Look, this is what's going on,'" Lucas told Bloomberg Businessweek when asked about whether he kept the actors in the loop about the Disney acquisition.
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Ugg, just don't. It's the Who at the Super Bowl all over again. Harrison Ford is going to turn 70 this year. They were too old to do it 10 years ago. Not to mention it seems that since Empire Strikes Back George Lucas has had a Muppet fetish.
 
Matt1970 said:
Ugg, just don't. It's the Who at the Super Bowl all over again. Harrison Ford is going to turn 70 this year. They were too old to do it 10 years ago. Not to mention it seems that since Empire Strikes Back George Lucas has had a Muppet fetish.
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What's funny is that Lucas denied up until pretty recently that Episodes 7 through 9 were being made but he admitted in an interview around the time of the Disney purchase that he had been working on Episode 7 since 2009.
 
Matt1970 said:
Ugg, just don't. It's the Who at the Super Bowl all over again. Harrison Ford is going to turn 70 this year. They were too old to do it 10 years ago. Not to mention it seems that since Empire Strikes Back George Lucas has had a Muppet fetish.
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Did you completely miss the news several months ago about the whole disney bought out lucasarts?

There is an entire new trilogy being planned with more after that if they do well.
 
mnewsham said:
Did you completely miss the news several months ago about the whole disney bought out lucasarts?

There is an entire new trilogy being planned with more after that if they do well.
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I thought they just did it for the merchandise. That alone is still huge.
 
Matt1970 said:
Ugg, just don't. It's the Who at the Super Bowl all over again. Harrison Ford is going to turn 70 this year. They were too old to do it 10 years ago.
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Bullshit. They are not too old to reprise their roles. They're too old to be the 20 or 30 somethings they were in 35+ years ago.

If done well, this could be a good thing - and an excellent transition into new character fodder for the continuation of the SW universe.

Case in point:

Clint Eastwood was 62 when he did Unforgiven, widely considered one of his finest westerns. If you haven't seen it, he plays an aging gunslinger... and he plays it brilliantly.

Is there any reason why Harrison Ford couldn't play his finest role as an aging hero? Or Hamill?
 
Rakewell said:
Bullshit. They are not too old to reprise their roles. They're too old to be the 20 or 30 somethings they were in 35+ years ago.

If done well, this could be a good thing - and an excellent transition into new character fodder for the continuation of the SW universe.

Case in point:

Clint Eastwood was 62 when he did Unforgiven, widely considered one of his finest westerns. If you haven't seen it, he plays an aging gunslinger... and he plays it brilliantly.

Is there any reason why Harrison Ford couldn't play his finest role as an aging hero? Or Hamill?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a major difference be that in Unforgiven Eastwood was playing an aging gunslinger and not an aging Man With No Name?

That seems to me to be a crucial difference, that these old stars aren't playing aging characters, they're reprising the role of famous, younger characters that made them stars, except now they're aged.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
What's funny is that Lucas denied up until pretty recently that Episodes 7 through 9 were being made but he admitted in an interview around the time of the Disney purchase that he had been working on Episode 7 since 2009.
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He's always planned for SW to be a 9 part series from the get go. He saw far far away in the future what the storyline would be. Hopefully it wouldn't be like the parts 1-3. Glad they are doing this with Ford, Fisher and Hamill. 😉
 
sactoking said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a major difference be that in Unforgiven Eastwood was playing an aging gunslinger and not an aging Man With No Name?

That seems to me to be a crucial difference, that these old stars aren't playing aging characters, they're reprising the role of famous, younger characters that made them stars, except now they're aged.
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Agreed, hopefully their roles are minor supporting to the new movie.
 
First, their supposed return hasn't been confirmed by Disney. But it seems likely.

Second, the sequels would not take place immediately after the original trilogy. They would be years in the future, so the 30 years of aging would actually be a good thing.

Carrie Fisher will need to lose some weight if she's going to fit in that gold bikini though.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
He did, but he said many years ago that he was stopping at 6 movies and repeatedly stuck to that story.
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He's lied or changed his mind about pretty much everything to do with Star Wars, there's no point in believing anything he says anymore. Hell even his famous "I always intended there to be 9" line is a lie.
 
Rakewell said:
Bullshit. They are not too old to reprise their roles. They're too old to be the 20 or 30 somethings they were in 35+ years ago.

If done well, this could be a good thing - and an excellent transition into new character fodder for the continuation of the SW universe.

Case in point:

Clint Eastwood was 62 when he did Unforgiven, widely considered one of his finest westerns. If you haven't seen it, he plays an aging gunslinger... and he plays it brilliantly.

Is there any reason why Harrison Ford couldn't play his finest role as an aging hero? Or Hamill?
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That's the key thing here. There hasn't been much done well since Empire Strikes Back.
 
sactoking said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a major difference be that in Unforgiven Eastwood was playing an aging gunslinger and not an aging Man With No Name?

That seems to me to be a crucial difference, that these old stars aren't playing aging characters, they're reprising the role of famous, younger characters that made them stars, except now they're aged.
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The characters in SW and Unforgiven are different, but while Eastwood's character's younger self in the movie is technically unknown, the movie indirectly pays homage to Eastwood's 60's gun-slinging roles.

My point is that you cannot write off character and universe progression because of "age", as the OP did.
 
Matt1970 said:
That's the key thing here. There hasn't been much done well since Empire Strikes Back.
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RotJ wasn't that bad... but you're right, the prequels were a disaster.

I'm trying by damnedest to remain optimistic, here. In the right hands, this universe could really shine, ST TNG-style.

The writers are a lot better this time around - Jesus, episodes 8 & 9 are written by Kasdan. (who wrote Empire and Jedi.)

http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/star-wars-8-and-9-writers/

It's already going to be better than the prequels- And that is more than enough for me, at this point.

My 2 cents.
 
J.J. Abrams is still in charge, I'm not worried he'll use them too much if they are indeed signed.

Hopefully they'll bar Lucas from the set.
 
K1052 said:
J.J. Abrams is still in charge, I'm not worried he'll use them too much if they are indeed signed.

Hopefully they'll bar Lucas from the set.
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It'll be the writers who decide how much the characters are used.

But yeah, hopefully Lucas will be in chains somewhere during production.
 
These movies will be great. ...if they hire good writers.

They won't, so expect more of the same hackneyed kids movies.
 
K1052 said:
Hopefully they'll bar Lucas from the set.
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And from :

writing
character design
and any input at all

I couldn't even stand to watch the latest trilogy's last film; stopped it halfway through and sold the disc on Ebay.
 
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