Would we as fans accept a recasting of Han Solo?

[T J]

If in the future they, i.e. Lucas, wanted to continue the story post ROTJ with the original characters some time soon after the last installment would we as the fans accept it? Ford is to too on in years to pick up where he left off. Your you accept it? Would it sell? What about other characters? Are we all so against it it could spark WW VI or like in Trek, would we accept it?

 

[Angry Angel]

Couldn't you have picked Luke for the question?

 

[T J]

Why?

I suppose in the end it applies to any of the main characters since they about come hand in hand.

 

[Aurian]

Any of the actors would be a bit of a stretch to get over. But if the story is good, then maybe.

Worked for me atleast with the new ST movie.

 

[Joy]

It wouldn't be as difficult for me to accept it was for a pre-OT, younger Han... It'd be harder to see someone else as Han post-OT unless they'd also recast and redone the OT.

If they did something in the NJO era, they wouldn't necessarily need to recast...

Of course, I recall that they did laser scans of Harrison's face several years back. I wanna say it was for an action figure, but I can't really remember. I do remember him saying something about how eventually they could use the laser scan to use his likeness for a CG character...

With how believable Davey Jones was in PotC, it wouldn't be too hard to believe that in perhaps 5-10 years ILM could have the technology to make an all-CGI Star Wars movie using the likenesses of the OT actors and it be photo-real.....

I think that's really the next step for CGI characters, is using the technology for if a series is being continued but the actors are either too old or not alive to reprise their characters believably.

Joy

 

[Aragorn]

Dennis Quaid for a recast.

Hugh Jackman for a reboot.

 

[FPAlpha]

It entirely depends on the actor and the script.

I can see Nathan Fillion as Han Solo for example mainly due to Firefly being a kind of back alley Star Wars show showing real life as a smuggler and being a scoundrel

Replace the Serenity with the Millenium Falcon and shrink down the crew to Chewbacca and the occasional friends who tag along and you could have had Han Solo as a TV show.

 

[RandyS]

I accepted it in 1981 when Perry King played Han Solo in the radio serials. In fact I prefer him to Harrison Ford. He had auditioned for the part in the movies but didn't get it. I wish he had. Nothing against Ford (who hates Star Wars anyway), but King was better.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I accepted it in 1981 when Perry King played Han Solo in the radio serials. In fact I prefer him to Harrison Ford. He had auditioned for the part in the movies but didn't get it. I wish he had. Nothing against Ford (who hates Star Wars anyway), but King was better.

Ford doesn't hate SW - he just wants people to think he does so that that isn't all they want to talk to him about...

 

[FPAlpha]

I accepted it in 1981 when Perry King played Han Solo in the radio serials. In fact I prefer him to Harrison Ford. He had auditioned for the part in the movies but didn't get it. I wish he had. Nothing against Ford (who hates Star Wars anyway), but King was better.

I think much of the dislike stems from overzealous fans and the sheer gigantism of Star Wars.. when you get stopped at every corner and asked about Star Wars you tend to get annoyed and maybe pissed off (especially if people act like Star Wars is all that he's done and the rest is just passing time between SW movies).

 

[Captaindemotion]

It would depend on who played him. If the re-casting was as unsatisfactory (IMHO) as it was in Young Indiana Jones, then I'd say no. if as good as in JJ Abrams' Star Trek or Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi, then probably yes.

Personally, when the new Indiana Jones movie was announced, I reckoned they should re-cast him with Nathan Fillion, the way Bond gets re-cast every few years. But in the end up, Ford was the thing I liked best about KOTCS. Fillion would be a decent, if too obvious, Solo too. An unknown would probably be the best way to do. Get someone who channels Ford's Solo the way e.g. Brandon Routh did Chris Reeve's Superman and I'd be happy.

 

[Angry Angel]

Why?

I suppose in the end it applies to any of the main characters since they about come hand in hand.

Because I couldn't care less if they recast Luke. But I'd have a hard time seeing Han played someone else. And that would turn into one of those Star Trek die-hard things and then people die and the world ends and stuff.

It's just difficult!!

 

[Trubinator]

Nope. Harrison ford IS Han Solo.

 

[Mistral]

Nope. Harrison ford IS Han Solo.

Oh, sure, we'd accept it. I know we're all looking forward to the casting of Rick in the remake of Casablanca, too. Please, some roles are iconic.

 

[Mr Light]

I don't care if they recast. Fillion would make a good Han Solo, or what's his name from SG: Atlantis.

 

[DevilEyes]

Nope. Harrison ford IS Han Solo.

Oh, sure, we'd accept it. I know we're all looking forward to the casting of Rick in the remake of Casablanca, too. Please, some roles are iconic.

Like Spock and Kirk?

It's been proven that any role can be recast. If they succeeded with Spock, they sure could with Han Solo. (Granted, it would be easier for me since I didn't care that much for Ford's Han Solo in the first place.)

 

[RandyS]

I accepted it in 1981 when Perry King played Han Solo in the radio serials. In fact I prefer him to Harrison Ford. He had auditioned for the part in the movies but didn't get it. I wish he had. Nothing against Ford (who hates Star Wars anyway), but King was better.

I think much of the dislike stems from overzealous fans and the sheer gigantism of Star Wars.. when you get stopped at every corner and asked about Star Wars you tend to get annoyed and maybe pissed off (especially if people act like Star Wars is all that he's done and the rest is just passing time between SW movies).

Which is nuts when you consider that it's been 26 years since his last appearance as Solo and three movies have been made in the decades since without him.

Speaking strickly for myself, I don't see him as only Han Solo. He's had so many other roles in so many other movies (most of which I don't care for), you'd think he'd be okay with Solo, but to each their own, I guess.

 

[Trubinator]

Please, some roles are iconic.

Amen to that.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

As a huge SW fan, I'd have no problem accepting new actors for familiar characters -- provided that the story and performances were solid. I love Ford's Han Solo, but I'm open to a new take on the character. For example, the new Clone Wars 'toon is fantastic, even with someone else "acting" the role of Obi-Wan, etc. But that's because the series is so well constructed. The same could translate to an OT cast provided, again, that whatever is produced is likewise well constructed.

 

[Spiderpope]

I'm in the odd position of having read the Star Wars novels long before actually seeing the films - imagine my disappointment when there was no sign of Thrawn in the original Trilogy - so i'm fairly open to the idea of a recast. But only if, like Captaindemotion said, they cast someone capable of remaining true to how Ford portrayed them. Basically i want a Karl Urban McCoy recast, not a Simon F***ing Pegg Scotty recast.