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Gawd I hope they don't mess this up like Lucas did with the prequels.

After the work he did on the Star Tek reboot and the teaser for the next installment of that franchise, I'm confident this won't suck. There is a lot of written material to work with post-Jedi, so even if the three of them are portraying much older versions of themselves, there are good stories to draw from.

Because of the respective age of the actors relative to the canon timeline, It HAS been decided, (last I heard) that NONE of this will center on Heir to the Empire. Which means NO Grand Admiral Thrawn. Which SERIOUSLY pisses me off.

BRING ON THE (cloned) GRAND ADMIRAL!!!

Thrawn is one of my favorite players in the canon because he's so nuanced. There is no "evil" in his intent to obliterate the Rebellion, just the idea that STABILITY is better than conflict. He cares not wether the Sith or the Jedi Moral System rules the day, as there is a decisive RULE by one side or the other. The "civil war" between the 2 is what he prefers to avoid at all costs. In a story based mainly on the stark difference between Good and Evil, it's an interesting intellectual position for a character in such a powerful position to take.

I always liked the idea that he thought the Emperor was flat NUTS to spend that much capital (both political and monetary) on not one but TWO Death Stars, mostly as a useless Show of Force. In that respect, he either missed completely or intentionally overlooked the Siths' penchant for suffering and Bloodlust.

But goddamned if that mofo didn't know how to run Fleet Operations and Attack Tactics=)

Get off my lawn...........

We cannot recapture our youth no matter how hard we try.

posts never get old.

Shia Lebouf instead, he is Harrison Fords son after all, isn't he?

watch the latest installment of Indiana Jones..

he's got the reverse Midas touch lately.

Lucas no longer owns the rights to the Star Wars franchise.

I'm sure he gave it a thumps up (and that his thumps up matters).

He can't help himself.

That autocorrect was responsible, although that seems difficult to understand.

Midi-chlorians. Sheesh!

An elderly Disney Princess.

this sounds like a terrible idea. There is no way this story is going to be interesting and up to par with the original 3 when all the characters have aged so much. Ford looked like an old man and could hardly walk in the most recent Indiana Jones, so don't know how they're going to make this story believable unless he is going to play the new Yoda.

Sure, it will be interesting to see....but why can't they just leave well enough alone?? None of them need more money. Just bask in the immortality that the original trilogy gave you all and pick some different project to work on.

that excludes Lucas completely so he can't fuck it up. Hell, as far as he's concerned, he doesn't consider any of the extended universe canon, so why shouldn't we be able to just use what Drew Karpyshyn and the other folks at BioWare have created?

But where in god's name would you start something like that. My reccollection from playing those games is that a lot of the stuff that Bioware came up with is more Meta-type stuff, which was cool, and then placing their own hero into that Universe. It would be like making a movie BETWEEN Empire and Jedi, that centers on Jabba's the Hutt's disabled cousin or something...

You would have to write something based on Bioware's World, but with an entirely new arc of time and cast of characters..Not impossible, but not a task I would volunteer for lol.

the Republic winning the first war with the Sith, then the second could be the Sith's triumphant return to Korriban and reestablishment of a foothold in the galaxy. Personally, I'd like to see some pureblood Sith on the movie screen.

He did a great job in that one...

I am 74 and in fairly good health and do not need a walker. And you are insulting a lot of us seniors. Just hope you live long enough to have to use a walker.

...is your sense of humor. Serious, lighten up.

Same people that make the age jokes don't want to have anything to do with wellness, nor hear about anything to do with bettering health.

Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey sure looks fine in the new "42" movie about Jackie Robinson coming out opening day of the baseball season.

...I didn't think it was and I will be turning 60 within a month.

Some of The actors in the movie are older than you or me. I have physical problems. It is not an ageism joke. It's not a statement about all people who age which we 'all' do. Star Wars has Walkers and I think it is fair game. We all need to all lighten up some times. My Father and Mother when through pure hell before they died but were not above joking ab out they're own infirmities.

is that we're defined by our infirmities, whether imagined or real. I want to be defined by my actions and the way I treat others, not by some ageist stereotype. This is not OK and I'm sorry that you acquiesce. (This reminds me so much of how our biggest opponent during the ERA push was from WOMEN.)

I am not defining anyone. You are not being 'defined' by a Star Wars reference. But I do understand your actions and the way you are treating me.

and the assumption that if you're over 40, you're somehow a doddering old fool and it's OK to laugh at and dismiss doddering old fools. It manifests itself in tired old "walker" and "get off my lawn" jokes 'cause goddess knows they never get old. You're comfortable with that and I'm not.

"But I do understand your actions and the way you are treating me. "

Really? Oh, do tell. I'm breathless with anticipation.

No one is saying Ford et. al shouldn't get jobs in Hollywood---people are just joking that their previous roles in SW were for the young and now (reality check) they're not anymore.

But other than that, enough with the core characters already. How much of the universe can happen to the same six people?


And yes, I've seen Luke's Change.

I expect the Millenium Falcon to be renamed the Millenium Fabulous and look like a mall hair salon.

Plus lots and lots of lens flare.

unless they set it around the time of the Legacy of the Force novels? At least in that time period Han and Leia are in their 60s.

The Phantom Menace was literally one of the biggest disappointments of my life.

n/t

\Drops Mic and walks off stage.

I can't see a way this doesn't fail, and fail epically.

Who even calls the guy a great actor? He's certainly never won an Oscar, dunno if he's ever even been nominated. And I think he's aged pretty normally ... not everyone can be a freak like Clooney or Connery. Kinda harsh to bag on a guy just for getting older-looking. And I wouldn't mind one bit looking like him when I'm 70 friggin years old.

Also, IMHO, Ford is a perfectly passable actor, at least in certain genres, doing a certain type of character. He was great as Han Solo, for example, so I don't really get the beef on that level.

I'm sure if these guys are all in the next iteration, they won't be the main stars ... I'd bet money they'd be used in a way similar to Nimoy in the recent Star Trek reboot, which worked out fine, frankly.

However, the issue I'd have with it is just the blatantly commercial aspect of it, the producers banking on the idea that having these three actors in the movie will enhance the box office tremendously.

So for me it comes down to whether they manage to insert these characters in a meaningful and believable way, or whether they're worthless cameo's, appearing just for the sake of a better box office.

Someone mentioned above that these people are all rich already ... well, for sure Harrison Ford is wildly rich, and Carrie Fisher I'm sure has some bucks. Mark Hamill, though? Unless he is being paid royalties still for all things "Star Wars" (which an unknown actor at the time of the first movies may very well not have been able to negotiate), what has the guy done otherwise? Voicing The Joker in some cartoons and video games (and doing an AWESOME job of it in the Batman: Arkham game series) is about all I can recall hearing about recently ... wouldn't shock me to hear Mark could really use the dough

Having seen Ford in the most recent iteration of Indiana Jones, and Abrams' work with Star Trek, I'm kind of looking forward to this.

The Old Guard cast members turning over the franchise to new actors and new adventures under the guiding hand of Abrams' frenetic pacing allows me to think this may be pretty cool.

However, as I thoroughly enjoyed the three most recent SW films, my tastes are obviously not as evolved or refined as that of most others.

they each sucked progressively less.

But I am concerned. How much story is there left to tell? Return of the Jedi tied up every loose thread (a little too tidy, in my opinion).

It was the first night they showed the film. Back then they use to change the movies starting on Thursday night, midnight.

We went completely baked and just sat there and by the end we both just said Dude.....

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I've heard that the movies would follow Zahn's Thrawn triology, but those took place just a few years after return of the jedi. I wonder if these will have to be something more like 30 years down the road. That seems more like the timing of the new jedi order and anakin solo, and that thing about Chewbacca.

eta I guess 30 years is after Anakin solo, I was thinking the movies might be about the invasion that I could not spell if I tried.

Which sucks for anyone who read those books. The Grand Admiral is one of the best Star Wars characters ever put to paper. But you are right, this will have to either be completely original writing by JJ and crew, or drawn from material relative to the age of the Adult Twins.

that Lucas said there would be 3 movies 20-30 years before star wars and 3 movies 20-30 years after. I think he had always planned the next trilogy to be when the original characters were in their 60-70s. So the adult twins and that whole dark side thing. But it just occurred to me. With the clone wars series at an end, maybe their will be another animated series between episode 6 and 7. That would be the Admiral Thrawn time, and I guess the whole Luke/Mira Jade and the solo kids time. As technology and cgi keeps coming along, that could be amazing. And I bet disney would foot the bill for their disney channels.

and use the Thrawn Trilogy as centering materiel for it...yes, DO the entire trilogy, but break it up into pieces and put it into a greater Universe of the Galaxy comming back together after the overthrow of Palpatine...

There is a lot of good material between Empire and Jedi anyway (Vader had an apprentice, The Emperor had more than one "Hand", if I remember correctly form playing through TIE Fighter), etc.

There's Gold to mine all over, and Disney WILL spend the money to make the money, as it were, and give it to people who love that material as much as Lucas does, who ALSO bring the talent of actually being great film Directors.

And this movie trilogy is going to be great. Lucas is not writing or directing and it's Disney. Home run.

While important in the originals, that character was no where near the focus of the action unlike the prequels.

In this new set, the big three will serve an important role, but would expect the action to revolve around the next generation, i.e. Han and Leia's kid(s) mentored by uncle Luke. Clearly handing off to the next generation will be important in the first one with flashbacks to fill the ensuing 20-30 years.

Just MHO.

I've always maintained that the Star Wars franchise is the biggest-budget Shaw Brothers film ever. The original Star Wars series shares the same general plot outline with many of the most popular martial arts films ever, including the Wong Fei Hung sagas, at least one of Bruce Lee's films, and so on.

All of them center around a young and usually somewhat immature adept who makes contact with an often quirky and reclusive mentor... after the mentor proves his or her superior ability:

even Spock's cave was polished to a mirror finish...

Abrams is killer and I love what he did for Star trek..

The Star Wars universe is vast and there are plenty of tales of Han and Leia's kids as well as Luke's.