$1000 is just chump change to a guy like Harrison Ford.

Yer he's paid his dues.

He only got an audition as Han Solo because they were being held at Coppola's place and he was working there as a Carpenter. Lucas felt bad, and gave him a shot. At that point he'd already done 10 or more films, including working for Lucas, Coppola and Antonioni.

vacuum said:

btw does anyone think theres a way the ST could fix the PT retroactively, especially in regards to the continuity problems between the PT and OT?

Perhaps the episode numbers should be dropped altogether.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Perhaps the episode numbers should be dropped altogether.

I like that idea.

Actually, I'd really like an "episode number"-less version of then ANH, TESB, and ROTJ crawls.

I hate the "episode _" labeling. This of course arose during the prequels when TPM was referred to as Episode 1.

It was Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. Then it became 4,5,6,1,2,3. I always see this question pop up every month or two around the web.

"What order should I watch the SW movies?"

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Bah!

http://latino-review.com/2013/08/obi-wan-kenobi-set-to-return-star-wars-episode-vii/

First, Force ghost Palpatine.  Now, Force ghost Kenobi.  Next, Force ghost CPY?

That idea's been out there for awhile. It could happen, but if it did I'd hardly credit Latino Review for "cracking the scoop".

Those guys just write whatever they can think of to get site hits.

I really hope there won't be any old characters coming back as force ghosts. That was one of the things I really liked about Zahn's books - he recognized the stupidity of the scene in ROTJ, where Obi-Wan, instead of being a disembodied voice or a flickering apparition, appeared as a ghost to rest his but on a stone and have a whole expository conversation with Luke and so Zahn had Obi-Wan appear to Luke one last time telling Luke that he's moving on and Luke will have to deal with what's coming on his own.

It really cheapens the death of a character, when you  can just bring them back whenever it's convenient - it kinda worked in ESB, because it was handled pretty tastefully but I think that on the whole, it's a pretty cheap plot device and it would be even worse to use it just to give the dead characters some kind of a cameo. Plus, imagine the horror if they brought Hayden back as Anakin's ghost... Urgh!

At the risk of mixing metaphors and reading as a scratched record Star Wars as Dune lite takes some of the really clever ideas of Herbert and returns them to their more traditional narrative origins.

Herbert doesn't have ghosts but invading persona's from the (then fashionable notion) genetic memory of the drug enhanced and intensively trained minds of his eugenically conditioned characters.

Or they are clones that recover the memories of their previous incarnations in much the same way (sort of like Ripley 8 in Alien 4).

In terms of story mechanism it's still a ghost but it gives a harder science fiction explanation as to how the dead come back to interact with the living.

If Leia like Alia were to be tormented by an evil Grandfather figure she conspired against and helped kill, it would be an actual ghost not a split personality.

I have no problem with that as long as it's a genuinely frightening ghost story and not just a transparent red haloed return of the character as he was alive.

I agree with Harmy, Ben sitting on a log and delivering exposition was one of the dumbest moments of Star Wars.

SilverWook said:

Yeah, Hamlet being haunted by his dad was soooo lame. ;)

I presume what was left of Anakin vanished between Luke dragging him onto the shuttle and escaping the Death Star. Lucas said somewhere the armor was empty when Luke burns it. Had we seen the body vanish in the movie, that would have spoiled the ending a tad...

If it's the usual retcon by George, one can presume Ben and Yoda helped him cross over. Qui Gon didn't vanish either.

Hadn't thought about Vader not appearing to disapear, if you pardon the expression. The armour does look empty on the pyre now you mention it. If any FX savy editors are listening, I'd love to see a mockup version of the hanger bay scene where Vader's face disapears leaving just the armour. Just to see how it would play emotionaly.

I just assumed that the real reason Jedi's don't vanish in the PT was because George realised that they all needed to die and having hundreds of Jedi's all vanishing would look silly. It would've been like a bad FPS when all the corpses vanish 3 seconds after you shoot them. But then he never really explained it by the end of the PT. Just some throw away nonsense about Qui-Gon.

I don't think any force ghosts are needed in the ST as all the character arcs were all wrapped up in ROTJ. I always felt that when Luke gives them a contended smile in that last scene in the Ewok village, that it would be the last time they'd apear to him or anybody. Yoda, Ben and Anakin probably went to whatever the Jedi equivelant of the undying lands is ;-)