Star Wars: The Golden Years

[Teaos]

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Hammil and Ford might be coming back.

[Mikey]

I had heard Carries, too. Good Lord, I hope this doesn't happen. Any new 'Wars needs a completely new starting block.

[Graham Kennedy]

After the reception the prequels got, you know they are going to do this if they can. Movie executives are simple people with no conception whatsoever of what makes a good movie - the highest level their thinking rises to is that people like a movie because of the elements within it, so if you put those elements into other movies then people will therefore like those too.

In the mind of a movie exec the thinking will go "Fans like the original characters so if we bring them back fans will like the new films too".

They WILL put the actors into the new films, so you may as well stop trying to wish it away and get used to the idea.

[Mikey]

True. I just...

a) thought that Lucas was supposed to have a decent distance from this project; and

b) hope to Hell that if it has to be, they use these guys in a support role, to set up a flashback or something similar. I can't watch a 61-year-old Hamill try to play Luke throughout a Luke-based film. Ford's aged well, and even he was a little painful to see in "Crystal Skull."

[Tyyr]

I'm just praying for quick cameos as the old guard sends a new guard off on their first adventure.

Though I expect that they'll try to get me to buy Harrison Ford and Hamil as action stars.

[Mikey]

Exactly what I'm saying. Have aging Luke and Han send off the next generation onto their adventure, or relate a story of way back when, or complete a training sequence, or have Han helping mod a starship and give a "Back in my day..." quip. Not a feature-length film of Hamill and Ford fighting across the galaxy... please?

[Tyyr]

50/50 odds, maybe.

[Graham Kennedy]

True. I just...

a) thought that Lucas was supposed to have a decent distance from this project; and

b) hope to Hell that if it has to be, they use these guys in a support role, to set up a flashback or something similar. I can't watch a 61-year-old Hamill try to play Luke throughout a Luke-based film. Ford's aged well, and even he was a little painful to see in "Crystal Skull."

I think it could work well if they were around as older mentor or leader type figures. I don't want to see Luke Skywalker having adventures and action, and I don't even want to see Luke along for the adventure with some young person there to do the serious action, as in Crystal Skull.

But imagine Luke playing the sort of role Obi Wan had in the original film, or Yoda had in the second. The wise mentor who helps the hero along the way. Or Leia being the Queen, or President or whatever they have, who sends the troops out on their mission. That would make sense to me.

[Mikey]

Indeed - a supporting, mentoring, or otherwise background yet still prominent role would work; it could even be hugely beneficial to the film, if done properly. It's the idea of "Luke and Han and Leia were in the '77 one and that did great, lets reprise it!" that worries me.

[Tsukiyumi]

I think Luke and Han could have some action scenes. I loved Christopher Lee's fight scenes in the prequels (though he is an actual trained swordsman), and Harrison Ford's Han Solo was never much of a crazy action guy; more of a shoot 'em in the face kinda guy.

I personally always wanted to see Princess Leia with a lightsaber. None of the jumping, flipping, super-choreographed stuff like the prequels, but some training and stunt doubles could lend to her and Hamill doing well with a short action scene or two. Just my opinion.

[Teaos]

How old would the droids be in a movie based 40-50 years post ROTJ? Do droids have a life span?

[Tyyr]

No reason I know of that you couldn't just keep repairing them. By the time of RoTJ the droids are probably pushing 60. So they'd be pushing 100 to 110 that far past Return.

Actually that's just C3P0, we don't know when Artoo was built but it's likely before C3P0.

[stitch626]

There are EU records of droids in the several hundreds, so the OT droids are still in their golden years.

[Tsukiyumi]

In KOTOR, there was a droid what, 20,000 years old? Rakatan, but still.

[Mikey]

On the plus side for Carrie Fisher, any SW experience would be a novel one considering the blackout in which she spent the late 70's and early 80's.