wabid said:
Cast Archetypes
The Robots
Jimmy Fallon - C3P0 Character
As much as I like Jimmy, can you imagine 3P0 biting his lip and cracking up with the giggles every five minutes?
James Spader - Tarkin Character
Not cold enough.
Billy Bob Thorton - Emperor Character
Whaaaat?
Alan Rickman - Dooku Character
:)
Harvey Keitel - Gunray Character
Okay, Keitel in Star Wars? I'm in. But something big, like say Palpy Mk. II.
Imagine the throne room going a bit differently... "What, you just gonna stand there-that's it? Seriously? Make a move, do something! Nothing? Okay here's how it's gonna go..."
I don't know if these can be recast and maintain the same sense of character, but I do agree with above that the group of actors selected certainly have to be older.
But no one replaces The Dee Williams and his Colt 45. That's where we find Lando in VII-selling Colt 45 through the Outer Rim territories because some investments went very south. Think of it as the unreleased fourth Lando novel: Lando Calrissian and the rigors of selling terrible cheap malt liquor to aliens on sparsely populated backwater planets because you have a terrible business sense and were once the administrator of this facility.