Harrison Ford Will Return as Han Solo in Episode 7

[Soviet Heavy]

The last time that Ford did a Star Wars movie, he pushed for Han Solo to be killed off in Return of the Jedi, but Lucas vetoed the project.

Me wonders if Abrams took him up on his desire....

 

[axlryder]

Sigh.

10 years ago, maybe he could have made it work. But he was too old in Indy, and he'll be 7 years older than that when they start filming the new SW... And he has been getting significantly worse in the last 5 years or so after Indy, imo. Not just physically, either - some of the interviews Ive seen in the last few years he seems like the old grey matter is slowing down a fair bit, too.

Hope its just a rumour. He should learn from Lucas' mistakes and not try to go back adding to something that was already a fine and complete story.

I assume they'll be filming sooner than that; probably sometime in 2014. I think his performance in Ender's game will be a good litmus test.

 

[Caffiene]

I assume they'll be filming sooner than that; probably sometime in 2014.

I was thinking 2014 as well. Crystal Skull was filmed in 2007, so filming in 2014 he would be 7 years older than he was in Indy.

 

[weirdee]

He's the smuggler who made the bathroom run in less than 12 parsecs.

You win. Might as well shut the forums down now, there's no topping this one.

If I had to guess, I'd probably say it would just be a cameo, but who knows, stranger things have happened!

But we haven't even gotten to the part where he survives the destruction of the Millenium Falcon by hiding in a conservator!

 

[Blindrooster]

I love Harrison ford, but I hope the story is fresh and isn't focused on Luke and Han. Need some new blood for the series. (And please God put Kyle Katarn in there somewhere.)

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

han marries leia and does what in the EU? i know they have kids. beyond that i know jack squat about that side of sw.

Pretty sure their children are taught be be Jedi under Luke. Maybe they're going to do something with that?

 

[luckshot]

this just keeps getting more...interesting, this movie will be big. big good or bad i cant tell

 

[davidsoc]

Seems like a good set up for a sibling rivalry, Han being the father, one child goes evil while the other good. Maybe the bad child killing Han off.

You're half right. One of Hans children, if my memory of the vast mass of void that is the expanded universe is to be believed, did infact turn evil.

SPOILERS ahead (they are very old...if you wanted you have probably read...but you are warned)

Also i apologize, i do not know how to work the spoiler tagging..





In the EU, they had three kids, the youngest gets killed by the extra-galactic vong race....the other two are twins, the boy does go sith and earns a darth title, killing his aunt (mara) in the process....his sister kills him later in a duel. Yes i have read most of the EU stuff. Most of it is garbage, the Zahn books are actually pretty damn good. The bounty Hunter Trilogy is a fun ride, though not great. And one or two of the Vong series (23 or 25 volumes i can't remember it has been a long time) are decently written books, but that is about it. Beyond Zahn nothing really feels like a Star Wars type of book other than throwing the main characters around, to me Zahn was the only one that actually captured the universe it self well.

 

[axlryder]

I assume they'll be filming sooner than that; probably sometime in 2014.

I was thinking 2014 as well. Crystal Skull was filmed in 2007, so filming in 2014 he would be 7 years older than he was in Indy.

haha, my mistake, I was just thinking of CS's release date, not film date.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Well, at least with JJ Abrams, Harrison Ford will get to keep his dignity as Han Solo.
Abrams gave Leonard Nimoy's Spock some dignity.
Which is a far better fate than what Lucas would do; he already assraped Indiana Jones.

If you ask me, "Han Solo" is getting a break.

 

[Kesimir]

Script leak [Contains Spoilers!!!]:

Film opens with a republic corvette approaching what appears to be a lightning storm in space but is really the deathstar coming out of a wormhole captained by a mandalorian named Nemo Fett. A young jedi anakin skywalker resentfully takes the helm of the corvette as captain Qui Gon agrees to board the death star to negotiate. But once Qui Gon is aboard the death star Nemo kills him and fires on the corvette. Knowing the fight to be one sided anakin orders his pregnant wife Padme Amidala to escape in a shuttle while he rams the larger ship ineffectually with his own. The final dialogue of the scene has the couple deciding to name the child Luke. Cut to some years later a young boy having just stolen his uncles speeder is racing across the dune sea, while an anachronistic beasty boys song blares, being chased by droid police officers. After leaping from the speeder due to having driven it dramatically into the sarlaac pit the now dusty young boy identifies himself to the officer as Luke Skywalker. Another time cut shows an older Luke, played by Zac Efron, getting his drink on at Toshi station when some rebels enter including Zoe Saldana as Leia Organa. Luke tries unsuccessfully to hit on Leia before getting into a barfight with Biggs and Tank. The next morning while Luke is nursing his wounds Old Ben Kenobi walks in and plays on Luke's daddy issues to get him to join the rebels. Then through a series of unlikely coincidences Luke winds up on the Millenium Falcon with younger versions of the entire Episode IV cast: Threepio is inexplicably a sword wielding robot samurai... After a failed attempt by Luke to convince everyone he is a Jedi the young Han Solo maroons Luke on Hoth where, as fate would have it, he meets up with a much older Han Solo being reprised by Harrison Ford. It turns out Harrison had been brought back in time and stranded on Hoth by Nemo Fett so that he could watch Alderaan get annihilated by the death star as payback for Han's accidental murder of Nemo's father Boba in his past which is now the future that wont happen because time paradox. Anyway, the two seek out an old rebel base manned only by Robin Williams playing chewbacca with a scottish accent for some reason (it is estimated the production will save millions on body hair prosthetics) who deus ex machinas all three of them back to the millenium falcon in time to perform a trench run scene culminating in the destruction of the death star and kickstarting a new continuity.

Somehow I feel I have seen this movie before........

 

[Olas]

As long as they respect his age and don't force him into action scenes that can't possibly live up to the originals like with Crystal Skull this is a good thing. In fact this could be really interesting.

 

[Norix596]

If they regather all the original actors for this there's probably going to be some awkwardness about Harrison Ford being the ONLY ONE who had a successful career after their big break.

 

[Infernai]

Seems like a good set up for a sibling rivalry, Han being the father, one child goes evil while the other good. Maybe the bad child killing Han off.

You're half right. One of Hans children, if my memory of the vast mass of void that is the expanded universe is to be believed, did infact turn evil.

SPOILERS ahead (they are very old...if you wanted you have probably read...but you are warned)

Also i apologize, i do not know how to work the spoiler tagging..





In the EU, they had three kids, the youngest gets killed by the extra-galactic vong race....the other two are twins, the boy does go sith and earns a darth title, killing his aunt (mara) in the process....his sister kills him later in a duel. Yes i have read most of the EU stuff. Most of it is garbage, the Zahn books are actually pretty damn good. The bounty Hunter Trilogy is a fun ride, though not great. And one or two of the Vong series (23 or 25 volumes i can't remember it has been a long time) are decently written books, but that is about it. Beyond Zahn nothing really feels like a Star Wars type of book other than throwing the main characters around, to me Zahn was the only one that actually captured the universe it self well.

Oh, i agree it's mostly garbage...there is a reason i used the words "Vast mass of void" to describe the EU. It's also the reason i employ Selective Canon with it (Although i am grateful for them having Boba Fett survive the Sarlacc and for making Kyle Katarn). For example, there was apparently a rumor of the emperor coming back to life somehow...good thing THAT never happened in starwars amirite? *plugs ears* LALALALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LALALALALA! IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! LALALALA!

 

[Bleidd Whitefalcon]

If they regather all the original actors for this there's probably going to be some awkwardness about Harrison Ford being the ONLY ONE who had a successful career after their big break.

Actually Mark Hamill has had quite a successful career as a voice actor. You might know him as the Joker

 

[Norix596]

If they regather all the original actors for this there's probably going to be some awkwardness about Harrison Ford being the ONLY ONE who had a successful career after their big break.

Actually Mark Hamill has had quite a successful career as a voice actor. You might know him as the Joker

Fair enough, he also voices like ALL of the English dub Miyazaki movies so he's up there in the voice-acting A-list but I mean that Ford is the anyone who's been on a prominent movie poster in the last 30-ish years.

 

[Dascylus]

One down, four to go...

By that I mean Luke, Leia, Lando, and 3PO. Everyone else who might show up in the version of episode 7 that I want to see is minor enough that they can be replaced with a look-alike, wears a costume, or is dead.

C3P0 and R2D2 are kind of given... R2 is easy and 3P0 is voice work for Anthony Daniels.
In fact if R2 isn't in the new trilogy I may join the hords in nerd rage.

I don't think the films would benefit from too much of the old. They need to respect the history but give us something new. I'm even ok with them taking a few (A FEW) liberties with the canon novels.

 

[gorfias]

He's the smuggler who made the bathroom run in less than 12 parsecs.

Trust me, getting old sucks. Beats the alternative.

 

[TAdamson]

What does anybody want Han Solo to do really? His Arc ended when he got released from the carbonite. You *might* be able to get Luke to fill the "Yoda" role, or perhaps the "Kenobi" role. But anybody else? Is Han really going to be adventuring around the galaxy with his giant dog and committing crimes?

REally there's only three things I can imagine happening to Han Solo:

1) He's married Leia and has a boring high level security job busting the kind of crooks he used to be that he is likely soon to retire from.
2) They're divorced and he's pissing away the last of his smuggling profits while hiding from bounty hunters who want his blood.
3) He's dead.

None of those ideas make for particularly epic story telling.

Chewie? Chewie's probably an elder statesman of his tribe or something, or he's running a successful and legal freighter company after offloading his newly married loose cannon of a partner. This would make a dull movie.

Lando? He'd be back in administration. He seemed to really like it, and was good at it. Maybe not at Besbin but probably a space station somewhere. Again I don't find this to be particularly compelling thrilling space adventure material.


Mark Hamill is the obvious choice because you could just drop him into the Ben Kenobi character and it wouldn't matter an inch. In fact I can think of all sorts of things that Luke Skywalker could be doing. Running a new Jedi Academy, secretly running a Jedi Acadamy, refusing to run a Jedi acadamy, trying to warn the new senate of a new Sith presence. Han however? Retired, dead or clocking hours at a boring desk job.


Leia would actually be interesting because she's an Ambassador and that might lead to some serious interstellar hijinks. But good luck getting Carrie Fisher cleaned up enough to play that part.