Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, has said he was initially reluctant to return in his iconic Star Wars role, believing that Disney would be unable to "catch lightning in a bottle twice."
  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    2 days ago

    Funny, because Harrison Ford really wanted out of the franchise for good.

    When Han was frozen in Carbonite, it was done to give some ambiguity to the return of the character, as Harrison Ford wasn’t sure if he even wanted to return for another film.

    Then in the new series, he immediately gets his character removed from the rest of the series. Make up your mind! Are you coming back or not?

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          I really hope that, if Disney has the bad taste to bring Solo back, they at least have the good sense to have the character feed multiple, improbable and usually contradictory explanations as to how he survived… more bragging scoundrel than rebel leader.

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      Apparently, he had always wanted his character to die. He lobbied for it hard in Return of the Jedi. So he was willing to come back only if they killed him.

      • Patches@ttrpg.network
        4·
        2 days ago

        Does Harrison Ford get a golden parachute if he dies on camera?

        Does he have a contact like the Rock?

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    2 days ago

    Need to pull the plug already and shelf this horseshit the franchise has been forced to devolve into

    Went from having six films, origin story comics, prequel/sequels with Bane and continued stories with future characters, and everything in between to this

    A zombiefied franchise that infects just a select bit of Star Wars with the virus so as to keep the most profitable parts moving with an unnatural gate towards enshittification and profits

    • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
      153·
      2 days ago

      If you don’t think pre-Disney Star Wars EU was worse than what Disney’s done, you either have cognitive dissonance from buying a hundred bad pulp novels or you never read them.

      The sequels have palpatine “somehow return” via cloning, while the EU justified Sheev building death weapons because of extra-galactic anti-force bugs.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        153·
        2 days ago

        Old EU had its bad points; it was basically commercial fan fiction after all. However, there were some really good stories in there too. A much better ratio of good to bad than Disney has managed.

  • Olap@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 days ago

    Disney didn’t exactly catch lightning the last time either! And Han Solo is dead, what can they need Ford for?

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    2 days ago

    There’s a video on YouTube which is a compilation of Mark Hamill interview moments where he was slyly trying to warn everyone about issues with the Sequels.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      I remember seeing a video review for TROS, and it opened with the main cast, JJ, and Kathleen Kennedy on Encore. The question was “without saying anything, what would your reaction to the ending of the movie be?”

      Ian McDiarmid Anthony Daniels immediately went to a shocked/horrified face, Mark Hamill put his head in his hands, I think John Boyega and Oscar Isaac both just nod their heads sarcastically, and Daisy Ridley has this look of “what the fuck?” JJ just turned around and this look of shock came over him like he honestly couldn’t believe they thought it was that bad.

      Here it is