Recasting our heroes — Page 3

Bingowings said:

Nope.

Never going to think about such an evil proposal.

New characters or the same actors.

Hear, hear.

I feel like making it take place many years after ROTJ makes just fine sense; they had a few decades of peace in the New Republic but now some new sinister evil threatens that peace and all the heroes of the New Republic are too old to deal with it, so bring on the next generation of hero.

It'll be a long enough time that the New Republic can be well-established and strong, the New Jedi Order can be established and training students (maybe just now getting to the maturation of the first class), and you can use all the original actors for secondary/cameo roles.

One of the biggest problems with the EU prior to ROTJ was that the New Republic was around for like ten minutes and it was already in another batch of huge wars and beginning to crumble and it devalued the conclusion of the OT. Give us some peace, make it seem like the Rebellion was a success; nothing interesting happens and everything is awesome for 20-30 years, then, suddenly, oh crap! Time to defend the Republic!

That just makes sense to me.

And if one more person blathers on about Nathan Fillion being perfect for Han Solo I swear I will burn the world.

I was just thinking about this, and it occurred to me that Nathan Fillion would be a great Han.

Is there any indication about when the sequels will take place?

I just don't understand how Obi-wan and Anakin aged 40 years in 20 from the prequels to the OT. Now that the actors have aged 30 years means that the story should reflect this change.

I hope that the child of Han and Leia isn't a teenager, is all I'm saying.

But this assumes that the original actors reprise their roles. Now, I would like to see an older Luke like everyone else, but everyone else said that they would like to see a young Anakin Skywalker 20 years ago. I think that a person's imagination does a much better job of aging Luke into a Jedi Master than the slow march of time.

On that note, why does everyone want to see the old characters again, yet also want new characters? For a character to work, they must contribute to the story. The Luke of the OT should not be the Luke of the sequels. The prequels showed us that. One of the reasons that the characters of the prequels failed was because they had to be a certain way in order to match the OT, instead of doing what they would more realistically do in a situation. Jedi Master Luke is not the same character as Jedi Knight Luke. To reprise the role is to concede that the character isn't strong enough to survive without the actor, in my opinion.

Darth Vader is such an enduring symbol of evil because his character is the result of the performances of many actors, including David Prowse, Bob Anderson, Sebastian Shaw, and James Earl Jones, and that's just in the OT. No one actor was Vader. He was a symbol. So was Yoda. Even Obi-wan was iconic, though he didn't need multiple actors to portray his character.

What I'm trying to say with all of this is that if the character is worth bringing back, it's worth looking beyond the actor for the deeper meaning of the character.

You already said it once so the world can live for now.

Like I said, I don't believe in recasting, but in terms of general casting I hope they don't choose a bunch of pretty people. I find the model look distracting.

And no major stars, please. That doesn't have to mean casting relative unknowns. I could see someone like Emma Watson.

And just say no to Robert “I actually kind of like Jar-Jar" Pattinson. I understand he was asked by the interviewer...as all big stars will invariably be asked. But I hope the big star impulse is kept in check.

Mrebo said:

...I hope they don't choose a bunch of pretty people. I find the model look distracting...

...And no major stars, please...

...I could see someone like Emma Watson...

wut

Also: no.

Bingowings said:

I hope they cast a big wobbly warty person as the romantic lead.

Lemmy?

Bingowings said:

I hope they cast a big wobbly warty person as the romantic lead.

C'mon, Mark Hamill isn't that bad.

I'm afraid it's gonna be all Tron Legacy. Actually, I'll be very surprised if it's not. Lucasfilm owns the rights to the characters likenesses and now Disney owns Lucasfilm... just seems inevitable that they will go that route..

ray_afraid said:

I'm afraid it's gonna be all Tron Legacy. Actually, I'll be very surprised if it's not. Lucasfilm owns the rights to the characters likenesses and now Disney owns Lucasfilm... just seems inevitable that they will go that route..

Aaugghhh!!!!! Don't even think that! My mind is now poisoned with the image of a CG Han and Leia and a litter of CG Jedi babies with Yoda-sized baby lightsabers. Aaaaughwhathaveyoudone?!!!?

Bingowings said:

Or my Uncle Bob's.

You have an uncle bob too?? OMG we're twins!