Alternate Universe Star Wars Cast

Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey 2013) as Leia:

Toshiro Mifune (Red Beard 1965) as Ben:

Prince (Under a Cherry Moon 1986) as Lando:

Oliver Reed (Sitting Target 1972) as Han:

Michael J. Fox (Secret of My Success 1987) as Luke:

and Michael J. Fox (Teen Wolf 1985) as Chewbacca.

Peter Wyngarde (Flash Gordon 1980) as Vader:

Can anybody else think of better?

Oliver Reed would have been fantastic as Han, I can totally imagine him delivering the "Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy..." line.

Andre The Giant as Chewbacca. (Lee Majors provided for scale.)

Mime performer Robert Shields as C-3PO. His partner and former wife Lornene Yarnell actually played Dot Matrix in Spaceballs. Their best known characters were a robotic couple who frequently suffered mechanical problems.

Jonathan Harris as Tarkin.

Andre the Giant gets my casting vote ;-) and nice Spaceballs trivia.

What about...?

K-9 as R2D2:

Freddie Mercury as Biggs Darklighter:

Kevin Peter Hall as Boba Fett:

Orion slave girl as Tatooine slave girl:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Can I go for the gusto and choose actors that weren't even born/adults/still alive when the OT was made, or do I have to limit myself to actors who could have realistically been in the OT?

 F*ck realism.

Lon Chaney, Jr as Chewbacca:

In that case, Lon Chaney, Sr. as the Emperor:

Bela Lugosi always wanted to play a "good" character, he was sadly typecast as Dracula. Let's put him with the heroes.

General Rieekan, perhaps?

"Bevare of the Vampa!"

and Marty Felman as Yoda

"Judge me by my eyes, do you?"

Marty Feldman as Yoda, yes, yes and yes. Couldn't find any mockups but he did play Gollum apparently...

also, Scatman Crothers as Mace Windu (Scatman breaksdown and cries when Lucas makes him do 40 takes of Mace telling Anakin he will not be trained):

Joe Turkel as Grand Moff Tarkin:

Tarking blows up Alderaan...

Leia - "And you call yourselves Human?"

Tarkin "'More human than human' is our motto"

LMAO

and Shelley Duvall as Princess Leia (This would have been genuinely awesome IMO):

(See what I did there)

Chris Greenham as Vader (voice)

Burt Reynolds as Han Solo

Richard Dreyfuss as C-3PO

Yeah but if you cast Stoltz as Luke he'd only get replaced by my suggestion a week into production ;-)

Let's see, I did consider these....

• Malcolm McDowell as Luke

• Helen Mirren as Leia

• Peter O'Toole as Ben Kenobi

• Richard Burton as Han (maybe?)

• Marlon Brando as Jabba (original style!)

• Peter Capaldi as Tarkin (don't ask)

FrankT said:

Let's see, I did consider these....

• Malcolm McDowell as Luke
• Helen Mirren as Leia
• Peter O'Toole as Ben Kenobi
• Richard Burton as Han (maybe?)
• Marlon Brando as Jabba (original style!)
• Peter Capaldi as Tarkin (don't ask)

 ^ Tinto Brass directs Star Wars ;-)

^ Leia and Luke... write your way out of that scene Mr Lucas.

^ Dammit, now I wanna to see 'Carry on Star Wars' more than life itself LOL

Kenneth Williams as Tarkin, Charles Hawtrey as C3PO and Leslie Phillips  as Ben... f*ckin' YES!!!

^ "I say, it's been a long time since a tall rough like you has grasped my helmet in his big hairy hands, ooooo!"

Ryan McAvoy said:

 ^ Tinto Brass directs Star Wars ;-)

 Ah, good catch! ;)

Bingowings said:

• Kenneth Williams Tarkin
• Joan Sims R2D2
• Charles Hawtrey C3PO
• Sid James  Han Solo
• Kenneth Connor Motti
• Peter Butterworth  Tagge
• Hattie Jacques  Emperor Palpatine.
• Bernard Bresslaw  Chewbacca
• Jim Dale  Luke Skywalker
• Barbara Windsor Princess Leia
• Patsy Rowlands  Aunt Beru
• Jack Douglas  Darth Vader
• Terry Scott  Uncle Owen
• Leslie Phillips  Ben Kenobi
• Peter Gilmore Darth Vader

This. The idea did cross my mind at one point.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Kenneth Branagh as (young) Obi-Wan

 All the joking aside, this would have been genuinely an amazing casting choice that could have been.

^ This is what he looked like at almost exactly the time TPM was being shot and at the time AOTC was being shot...

...he looks even more like a young Guinness. Bet he could do the voice too.

That… would… be… awesome.

Kenneth Mars as Dr Evazan ;P

Kenneth was great in Henry V.

But Henry V is not Obi Wan Kenobi.

He also survived low pay and typecasting, being put in front of a greenscreen. And Lucas horrible handling of his actors.

Just ask Terence Stamp on his opinion over how Lucas directed him in Episode I.

DiCaprio looks like a genius for turning down shit like episodes II and III.

Eric Stoltz as Luke could have worked...

I really wish Orson Welles could have been Vader.