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Disney CEO Bob Iger’s announcement Tuesday that the studio plans new Star Wars spinoff films has caused an avalanche of rumors online about which characters will star. Jedi master Yoda, bounty hunter Boba Fett, a young Han Solo are named the most. Deadline, however, has learned that nothing is written in stone yet. A source tells me: “Nobody knows when these movies are even coming out. Right now, people are just kicking around ideas. Which is why you hear it’s Yoda one day and a young Han Solo another. It’s all in early development right now.” Iger, whose Disney recently bought LucasFilm, himself said yesterday during an earnings call that the concept for the new films is simply “becoming more real”. He also confirmed that Simon Kinberg and Lawrence Kasdan are going to handle the screenplays. Right now the studio’s attention is on Star Wars: Episode VII which is expected out in 2015 with JJ Abrams directing and Michael Arndt scripting. Two more Star Wars movies, Episodes VIII and IX, are coming in the next few years.
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Just kicking ideas around means just that. Not even in pre-production yet.
He needs to kick this idea to the curb.
A April’s Fool joke that was perhaps two months premature?
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Young Han sounds good till you remember that he can’t have anything to do with Jedi till he meets Luke and Obi-Wan. Yoda could work as an animated kids movie. Boba Fett becomes a bore when he takes off the helmet.
Disney, just do the obvious thing and get it over with: recast Luke, Leia and Han with pretty actors who can pick up the story where Return of the Jedi left off. That will give you decades’ worth of movies with the highest profile characters.
Then figure out a way to make more $$$ off Darth Vader. How about a reboot of those awful prequels for starters?
Vader can be in all the movies that take place before the first trilogy or even if they take place in between the events of the first trilogy.
The problem is what happens if James Earl Jones passes away before he’s able to record hundreds of pages of new dialog for future use?
My guess is he’s already recorded hours and hours of new dialog that can be used at any point in various new formats. That would be the smart thing to do while he’s still healthy.
Without that distinctive unique voice Vader is just a guy in black he has to have the James Earl Jones voice.
“My guess is he’s already recorded hours and hours of new dialog that can be used at any point in various new formats.”
Sure. What’s it like living in Narnia? Is Aslan a just and fair king?
Re: Episode VII, have Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in a few scenes to bridge their kids into future episodes. Make Mark Hamill the main character in the first movie, then have him in an Obi-Wan role for future movies a la Empire & Jedi. He starts a new Jedi Academy, whatever. I know it’s obvious, but it has to happen.
Re: stand-alones, it could be about Salicious Crumb and if Kasdan were writing it, it will be amazing. I’ve been screaming Kasdan since I walked out of the theater from Jedi – that dude gets it. CAN. NOT. WAIT.
That would be tight if they made this new series based of the Old Repulic bioware video games