Harrison Ford injured on Star Wars set

[BUTCH1]

Please, please dear god no more Jar-Jar Binks, please...

 

[drquest]

Maybe they can give him an Imperial Walker.

 

[SamQuint]

Imperial "walker" I see what you did there LOL :biggrin:

 

[lupi]

If only there was a thread about the movie.

 

[lord_emperor]

Seriously the Millennium Falcon is still around in this next movie? WTF the movie will be like 20-30 years after Return of the Jedi. You would think he would be able to afford a new ship by then. Why would he keep flying that hunk of junk around. Yes it is fast but there has not been a better ship made since then?

Technology in the Star Wars universe has basically plateaued, unchanged for some 20,000 years. That's why if you go back to the Clone Wars, or KoTOR there are still lightsabres, blasters and turbolasers.

Han is also very attached to that ship.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Do they have workman's comp in a galaxy far far away?

 

[GundamW]

Seriously the Millennium Falcon is still around in this next movie? WTF the movie will be like 20-30 years after Return of the Jedi. You would think he would be able to afford a new ship by then. Why would he keep flying that hunk of junk around. Yes it is fast but there has not been a better ship made since then?

Hunk of junk?! Hey, she'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. Han's made a lot of special modifications himself.
It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. He's outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, he was talking about the big Corellian ships now...

 

[sactoking]

Do they have workman's comp in a galaxy far far away?

Han Solo was an independent contractor, not an employee, which means he doesn't qualify.

Proof: As an independent contractor, he was able to walk away at the end of A New Hope and again at the beginning of Empire and the agency he was contracting with couldn't stop him.

Hunk of junk?! Hey, she'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. Han's made a lot of special modifications himself.
It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. He's outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, he was talking about the big Corellian ships now...

I love that George Lucas measures time with distances and brags about "point five past lightspeed" without realizing that it would still be lifetimes to jump from star to star.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Seriously the Millennium Falcon is still around in this next movie? WTF the movie will be like 20-30 years after Return of the Jedi. You would think he would be able to afford a new ship by then. Why would he keep flying that hunk of junk around. Yes it is fast but there has not been a better ship made since then?

She's the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Technology in the Star Wars universe has basically plateaued, unchanged for some 20,000 years. That's why if you go back to the Clone Wars, or KoTOR there are still lightsabres, blasters and turbolasers.

Han is also very attached to that ship.

technology has even declined, as has the strength of the force, compared to all the historical shit that officially doesn't count any more.

 

[Midwayman]

So he can't buy a new spacecraft and make those special modifications on it? Also now he is the husband of the Princess. Before I could see he didn't have money and couldn't afford it. Now he should be rolling in the dough.

Also I bet R2D2 will still be around. That sucker will be what 60-80 years old. You can't get a new one of those and one that actually can talk?

Its not unusual to keep large commercial vehicles for extended periods. They aren't traded in like cars.

 

[SamQuint]

Its not unusual to keep large commercial vehicles for extended periods. They aren't traded in like cars.

This next movie is supposed to occur 30 years after Jedi. I can imagine that the ship is 10-15 years old by the time it reached Jedi. Lando owned it before Han. Do you really want a 40-50 year old ship? Hell it was always breaking down in the first three movies.

Plus I bet it smells like wet wookie after all these years.

 

[mmntech]

This next movie is supposed to occur 30 years after Jedi. I can imagine that the ship is 10-15 years old by the time it reached Jedi. Lando owned it before Han. Do you really want a 40-50 year old ship? Hell it was always breaking down in the first three movies.

Plus I bet it smells like wet wookie after all these years.

Nerd Alert! According to Wookieepedia, the Falcon was built 60 years before the battle of Yavin, making it a whopping 90 years old by the time of Episode VII.

Canonically, the ship does appear in the background of Episode III. Which has been confirmed by Lucas. So that would make it at least 50 years old in the new film.