hanshotfirst1138

Among nerds, that gold bikini is probably one of the most iconic pieces of iconography ever.

taffer

Will we see Leia's daughter in the gold bikini?

EctoCooler

One can hope.

Sean O'Hara

Better yet, she should have twin daughters. Played by Kristen Bell and Melissa Joan Hart.

Deadman31

^double yuck unless they are playing Jar Jar Binks children.

joe_b

Dennis Lawson said he was asked to reprise Wedge Antilles, but declined because "it just would have bored me".

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/loc...awson-1.353349

Remember, this is the same chap who advised his nephew Ewan to turn down the role of Obi-Wan unless he wanted his acting career to end by age 30.

EctoCooler

Fuck him.

stvn1974

When the complete 9 film box set is finally released Lucas would probably ask Disney to digitally replace him with an Ewok anyway. So why bother?

hanshotfirst1138

Hopefully, unless fans' paranoid theories about Lucas invoking some sort of clause to prevent the release of the OOT are true, what Lucas thinks or wants now is academic.

Sonic

Is that Jabba The Hut's daughter?

taffer

Stockholm syndrome...

Leia suffers from Stockholm syndrome. So she became more like Jabba.

resinrats

Because all of Hollywood is banging on Dennis Lawson's door with non-stop work. The guy should accept that Wedge is the character he will be remembered for. Besides from Boba Fett, what other character has such a following for such a little part.

Sean O'Hara

Well, he wasn't wrong.

You know, not every actor in the world wants to be in big Hollywood movies. Maybe he prefers having an actual character to work with instead of gobbledygook like "Three marks at one-ten," or "Red Three pull up."

EctoCooler

McGregor's career has ended? Interesting.

Kicker_of_Elves

Sweet Jesus

EctoCooler

A couple things wrong here. It was never Lucas' intention to make sequels after the original three. He was always going to go back and get to the Prequels first, he had binders of notes and history to eventually help him with that story back in 83. The sequels were always to take place well down the road where Luke would return in the older, Obi-Wan mentor role. Lucas revealed all this in that Time magazine cover story around the release of ROTJ. As for Starlog magazine, I still have every issue I ever owned as a kid including the Star Wars 10th Anniversary issue with the poster on the cover from 87. In it there is a transcript of a recent convention presentation Lucas had done to celebrate 10 years of SW. A good chunk of it is actually spent on Willow, which was filming at the time, but he also states he still had an idea for a sequel trilogy and that originally he had in mind FOUR trilogies.

Paul_SD

You may be able to find and read/download that Starlog here. They don't have every issue, but they have a bunch including the special summer 1983 "review" issue, which gives a scathing review to Jedi (that I had never read until recently, but contains much of what I've been saying about that film for the last 30 years). I think that is issue 76, IIRC. 71 or 72 is also a ROTJ centric issue.
The tenth anniversary issue would probably be somewhere around 130

Obi-Wanma

That was his plan at the time ROTJ came out, but before he made ROTJ, everything was not meant to wrap up neatly in that film. There were plans for episodes 7-9, and Leia was never meant to be Luke's sister. There was to be a whole movie about the search for her. But before ROTJ, Lucas decided that he didn't want to do the sequel trilogy, and sloppily made Leia the sister and wrapped everything up.

mcnabb

Its been 27 years, so my memory is a bit foggy. I just remember one of my friends coming in history class (I was in 8th grade), and he showed me some magazine that said that the ST was not going to happen, and I just remember being so depressed that it was the end of SW.

There was no internet back then, so magazines were the only way to get any updates on movies back then. I remember waiting every summer after 1983 for them to announce another Star Wars movies, and it never happened. For some reason, 1987 sticks out in my mind as when I finally gave up hope on any new SW movies.

As for the Prequels, you could be right that Lucas always wanted to do that trilogy first. I was never interested in the Prequels back in the 80's, so I never really hunted out material about them ever being filmed. I always wanted the ST, and that is what I cared about finding out so maybe I thought that is what Lucas wanted to do since I wanted that trilogy more.

Shannon Nutt

The earliest talk I remember about movies beyond the first trilogy (and I'm assuming I read it in STARLOG, although it was possibly something from BANTHA TRACKS) was that Lucas had planned nine of them, and that C3PO and R2D2 would be in all nine - saying that the nine films would eventually prove to be their story.

At some point, he scaled it back to six and made them Vader's story - although the droids are still in all the movies.

arminius

That is what I remember from Starlog as well. The droids would be the only ones in all nine movies.

joe_b

Frankly, I'm sick to death hearing about George's "master plan" for this series. He's flip-flopped so many times over the years that it comes off as a joke at this point. He's been quoted as saying he intended to make twelve Star Wars films, then changed his tune and decided it was going to be a trilogy of trilogies. He then implied that the idea of a sequel trilogy was fabricated by the press and that Star Wars was always "The Tragedy of Darth Vader". He made a firm statement that the story was over with Return of the Jedi and he had never, ever planned for any future installment -- even claiming to have left explicit instructions that no one could make more Star Wars movies after his death. Then the asshat hands Disney outlines for VII-IX that were supposedly stored in a vault for decades after they cut him a check for four billion dollars. I'm over it. I'm convinced the creators of "Lost" had a clearer vision for their series than George Lucas.

According to Gary Kurtz, they did have the intention to make the sequel trilogy... but other than it focusing on Luke's life a Jedi, very little was fleshed out. Luke's sister (who was not Leia) would show up in VIII and the Emperor would not appear until IX. The outline for the prequels was even more vauge, with the first chapter being about the origin of the Jedi Knights, Episode II being the introduction of Obi-Wan and Episode III being the story of Anakin's fall to the darkside. It was only after Lucas decided to change the plot of Return of the Jedi from "bittersweet and poignant" to a kid friendly adventure with teddy bears and a climax recycled from the first film that he and Kurtz parted ways. I'm sure Lucas saw that Empire didn't make as much as the original film and decided to go for a more commercial approach. Financially, it worked out. Creatively, it paved the way for Jar Jar Binks.

Rob V

Sounds like Wedge is out

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...usaolp00000592

Shannon Nutt

I love how the headline misquotes him - he didn't say he was bored with Star Wars, he said he would be bored working on it. That sounds silly to us, but if you've ever been an extra or bit player on a movie set, you know exactly what he's talking about.

TomOpus

See post 3464