Star Wars Episode 7 - 2015

[Professor Zoom]

They should throw a curve and make Han a crazy hermit living in the desert. We see this character in a hood and robe and go in for the reveal. The hood drops and it's Han Solo??????!!!!!

If we're talking crazy, then he needs to carry a burlap sack that has the head of a certain wookie friend in it. That he talks to.

But I am serious: the more I think about it, I don't want Solo. And I love Han Solo. But...

 

[Nerys Myk]

I can see them going with a scenario like, Ford as Old Han, reminiscing on his deathbed about the terrible and dramatic events in the long ago past...as a framing device to stories of the younger (recast) characters...

So it's the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles?

 

[Set Harth]

He's got his own planet,
Although it's kind of wild.
Wookiees love him.
Women love him.
He's got a winning smile!
Though he may seem cool and cocky,
He's more sensitive than he seems,
Chorus:
Han Solo,
What a man! Solo.
He's every Princess's dream!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Well that's exciting!

Elder statesman who drinks, that's what I want.

Probably more like the drunk husband of an Elder stateswoman.

That will be even better.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Well that's exciting!

Elder statesman who drinks, that's what I want.

Probably more like the drunk husband of an Elder stateswoman.

I always imagined Han running legit businesses while Leia is busy.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I think their relationship is doomed. He's the flyboy badboy of the youth she didn't have being raised for public service. He'll get bored with the duties and she'll get bored with the attitude.

 

[Slurms MacKenzi]

It'd totally undermine his arc in the OT if he dumps Leia and returns to smuggling.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

 

[Rarewolf]

I think their relationship is doomed. He's the flyboy badboy of the youth she didn't have being raised for public service. He'll get bored with the duties and she'll get bored with the attitude.

With the love of repeated dialogue and situations in the franchise you could almost imagine him being confronted by Luke's son.

'No. I am your father'

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I read that as "comforted" rather than "confronted". That was interesting.

 

[sojourner]

Harrison Ford is the obvious one of the original actors to return, a la Leonard Nimoy, to pass the torch to the younger actors who are going to be playing the brand-name characters.

Ford is a bankable name. Hamill and Fischer aren't. Being bankable compensates for the wrinkles.

I can see them going with a scenario like, Ford as Old Han, reminiscing on his deathbed about the terrible and dramatic events in the long ago past...as a framing device to stories of the younger (recast) characters...

Then you get maximum value of all the brand names: Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Harrison Ford (who is the only actor who is also a brand and therefore valuable to Disney). And you don't scare away the young audience by making them look at a bunch of codgers for two hours.

So we know from the start that, whatever happens, Han doesn't die. That's okay if he's the only one whose fate is known. Maybe everyone else croaks in the course of the three movies, or go dark side or whatever.

Do you have any actual indication that these iconic roles will be recast beyond some self delusion that it's all about "the demographics"?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

No one seemed to mind that the OT had plenty of "old codger" Obi Wan.

And no, Alec Guinness was not a hip name among teens of the time.

 

[Slurms MacKenzi]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

By the end of ROTJ, Han had become pretty domesticated. He could easily become similar to Lando in ESB while staying with Leia: responsible and diplomatic while using his charm to succeed in some larger role in the government.

 

[lurok]

If it's not a grumpy old Ford, I'm not interested.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

By the end of ROTJ, Han had become pretty domesticated. He could easily become similar to Lando in ESB while staying with Leia: responsible and diplomatic while using his charm to succeed in some larger role in the government.

And that's why I don't need to see him again. His story, his life of adventure, is over. Who would want to see a "successful" diplomat Han Solo? Sounds AWFUL.

Lando, at least, had some shades of grey.

 

[Skywalker]

Harrison Ford is the obvious one of the original actors to return, a la Leonard Nimoy, to pass the torch to the younger actors who are going to be playing the brand-name characters.

Ford is a bankable name. Hamill and Fischer aren't. Being bankable compensates for the wrinkles.

I can see them going with a scenario like, Ford as Old Han, reminiscing on his deathbed about the terrible and dramatic events in the long ago past...as a framing device to stories of the younger (recast) characters...

Then you get maximum value of all the brand names: Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Harrison Ford (who is the only actor who is also a brand and therefore valuable to Disney). And you don't scare away the young audience by making them look at a bunch of codgers for two hours.

So we know from the start that, whatever happens, Han doesn't die. That's okay if he's the only one whose fate is known. Maybe everyone else croaks in the course of the three movies, or go dark side or whatever.

Do you have any actual indication that these iconic roles will be recast beyond some self delusion that it's all about "the demographics"?

No, she doesn't.

 

[Dream]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

Have you read any of the SW books that take place after ROTJ?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

By the end of ROTJ, Han had become pretty domesticated. He could easily become similar to Lando in ESB while staying with Leia: responsible and diplomatic while using his charm to succeed in some larger role in the government.

We saw him for 5 minutes at the end of a battle. Everything was still VERY exciting regardless of him being on the right side of the law. I would hardly call this domesticated.

Let him be married and up to his neck in diplomacy for ten years and we'll see how happy he is with domestication. He's going to get bored and she's going to get irritated with his boredom.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

Have you read any of the SW books that take place after ROTJ?

All I ever read was the Thrawn trilogy but that was a long time ago and I can't remember a thing about it.

 

[Dream]

I'm talking 10+ years later. And I didn't say he returns to smuggling, just that it's doomed, especially if there is an extended time of peace.

Have you read any of the SW books that take place after ROTJ?

All I ever read was the Thrawn trilogy but that was a long time ago and I can't remember a thing about it.

I would say the Thrawn trilogy were the only great Star Wars books. The author did a good job writing a believable Han and Leia married relationship too.

Most of what happens later is pretty... well... stupid.