That's certainly the buzz right now. Latino Review's El Mayimbe, who is one of the more reliable scoopers on that site, went on Fox Latino to say it was definitely happening. EW's Geoff Boucher, also reliable, says a deal isn't happening just yet, but might be months away (I'm guessing 6 months - Disney's D-23 convention is in August and it'd be a hell of a thing to announce there). HuffPo has the latest roundup.
In other news of old sci-fi stars, William Shatner appears to be trying to angle his way into the Star Wars sequels in trademark style, by being a semi-ironic blowhard about the whole thing. They should mo-cap him for a fully grown Rotta the Hutt, unless Rotta somehow died in some episode I missed.
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Yes, in episode 7 Han will be arrested for the murder of Licensed Bounty Hunter Greedo. The rest of the movie is Han escaping trying to find the three armed Besalisk that he always said actually shot Greedo. Movie ends discovering that Greedo faked his death and staged the whole affair.
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Interesting implications. If they are using Old Han, then I guess we're getting the stories about Luke's kids or something. Still, I find this depressing.
If they gussy Ford up into CG Young Han for a supporting role, then we're in a bit of an odd place since we're either before or right after the first trilogy... probably after since we're inevitably involving Jedi.
So--- Luke's kids, or the continuing adventure of Luke as he... does stuff?
I guess they could do some of the novel based stuff. Personally I wouldn't be opposed to a movie that starred new characters and wasn't just jammed with referential cameos, but that's probably too much to ask.
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@toxicroach It's a tough line to walk. Too few cameos "THEY'VE COMPLETELY REDONE STAR WARS IT'S NOT TRUE TO ORIGINAL FAN RAGE ARG"
Too many cameos "THIS ISN'T EVEN ORIGINAL AT ALL IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF TERRIBLE REFERENCES TO THE CLASSICS IT BUTCHERS THE ORIGINALS OH MY CHILDHOOD FAN RAGE ARG."
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@rabidronnie@toxicroachEither way, you get this...
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@rabidronnie @toxicroach redlettermedia did a bit where they looked at how each scene in RotS was an attempt to steal scenes from the original trilogy, but basically yeah, so far they have done nothing to make me think they're making movies rather than fan service toy commercials
@arivalscientist@BearrI remember liking it as a kid, going back to watch years later with some trepidation, but as soon as their new supervisor talked and I (metaphorically) shouted "IT'S GOLIATH!" I was resold.
I also remember finding what I thought was a used VHS copy, but it was a Chippendale's rip-off.
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Jesus, MVN, why are we STILL seeing the code AND the gif? One or the other, webmonkeys.
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Looks like my guess that Harrison Ford will do a Jeff Bridges in Tron:Legacy thing is coming closer to fruition...
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@Canadian.Scott Jeff Bridges (who I find extremely annoying) did a much more professional job in T:L than Ford did in IJatKotCS
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@Gallen_Dugall @Canadian.Scott OT, you could've saved your self a ton of time by simply typing "Indy 4."
Carry on.
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@Gallen_Dugall @Canadian.Scott Bridges has always been a better actor. Even now he kicks Ford´s ass at not giving a shit.
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@Gallen_Dugall @Canadian.Scott I don't disagree but I truly believe the technology will be used to bring Han Solo back into the fold. I also believe it might be a deal breaker because Harrison Ford seems to curmudgeonly to sit through the process.
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@Canadian.Scott that's an interesting thought. Disney now owns a cutting edge special effects company. From a certain point of view the prequels were made to finance the development of special effects technology - I wonder how much of that Disney will be willing to engage in.
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Alright, I'm less and less against this as the day goes by. I mean if George Lucas were coming anywhere near the script with a pen or the director's chair, I'd probably just swear off the entire enterprise now, but they've got a screenwriter and a director who have done some good work in the past, so... maybe having Old Man Solo in it for a supporting role wouldn't be that bad.
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So let me get this straight: an actor who has already expressed interest in returning to the franchise, to play arguably one of the most popular characters in said franchise, may or may not be in talks to do EXACTLY that, and in so doing make millions of dollars?
Pardon me while I don my "shocked" face. . .
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@jonap Yes. He will be swinging on a vine through the swamps of Dagobah with a thousand screeching Bogwings behind him to come into your nightmares.
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@ComradeDread1 @jonap for the record I contend that Shia acted circles around Ford in that IJatKotCS movie
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@ComradeDread1 @Gallen_Dugall @jonap I'm tempted to suspect that he'll put effort into it, but his response to decades of fan begging him to return to characters he no longer cares about seems to be to phone in performances just to dick with fans.
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@ComradeDread1@Gallen_Dugall@jonapI'll be curious to see how he does with Ender's xGxaxmxex END.
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@Gallen_Dugall @ComradeDread1 @jonap I'll be curious to see how he does with Ender's Game.
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@ComradeDread1 @Gallen_Dugall @jonap Let's be honest Ford stopped giving a crap about any of his franchise movies before he agreed to star in IJatKotCS, and I sure don't think he'll have a change of heart for any Wars films, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwep_FFRwY
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@Gallen_Dugall@ComradeDread1@jonap
I’m guessing that’s because Ford stopped giving a **** right around the time the nuking of the fridge happened. Though, that could be projection on my part.
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