Seibertron.com Energon Pub Forums

ComingSoon wrote:The rumor that Harrison Ford had signed on to return as Han Solo in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII started last week, but Mark Hamill now says that he and the other original stars have not officially signed on for the film. They are talking to Lucasfilm about it, however.

"They're talking to us," he said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. "George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts – they would write us out. … I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts. We're in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm. Both have had meetings set that were postponed -- on their end, not mine. They're more busy than I am."

Hamill says in the interview that he doesn't know what he film will be about officially, but based on his tone, it would appear he knows more than he is letting on.

"I'm assuming, because I haven't talked to the writers, that these movies would be about our offspring -- like my character would be sort of in the Obi-Wan range [as] an influential character. … When I found out [while making the original trilogy] that ultimate good news/bad news joke – the good news is there's a real attractive, hot girl in the universe; the bad news is she's your sister – I thought, 'Well, I'm going to wind up like Sir Alec [Guinness]. I'm going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots.'"

Also with the rumors of Ford returning in full swing, Hamill mentioned that he thinks everyone should come back for the film rather than just one actor, adding fuel to the fire that he knows more than he's saying.

"Another thing I'd want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie and Harrison and Billy Dee and Tony Daniels, everybody that's around from the original [returning]? I want to make sure that everybody's on board here, rather than just one."

Hamill also mentioned the direction he thought the film should go in terms of tone and its special effects use, and it makes sense to us.

"I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway....hope they find the right balance of CGI with practical effects. I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings -- I'm sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that's unfortunate. … If they listen to me at all, it'll be, 'Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.'"

Star Wars: Episode VII is scheduled to hit theaters in 2015. J.J. Abrams will direct the film from a script by Michael Arndt. Disney and Lucasfilm are planning a new trilogy with a new movie coming every other year.

Burn wrote:With the new movies on the way it was pretty much a no-brainer that we would see the end of the Clone Wars cartoon.

Shame really. The last season has been the best yet, and frankly the final story arc of the season was better than the three prequel movies combined.

(Watch Ahsoka make an appearance in the new trilogy)

njb902 wrote:

Burn wrote:With the new movies on the way it was pretty much a no-brainer that we would see the end of the Clone Wars cartoon.

Shame really. The last season has been the best yet, and frankly the final story arc of the season was better than the three prequel movies combined.

(Watch Ahsoka make an appearance in the new trilogy)

I she isn't . They need to kill her off and make it 100% Anakin's fault, in a insurance of selfishness on his part. Give him just that little bit more of a push to the dark side

Shadowman wrote:

njb902 wrote:

Burn wrote:With the new movies on the way it was pretty much a no-brainer that we would see the end of the Clone Wars cartoon.

Shame really. The last season has been the best yet, and frankly the final story arc of the season was better than the three prequel movies combined.

(Watch Ahsoka make an appearance in the new trilogy)

I she isn't . They need to kill her off and make it 100% Anakin's fault, in a insurance of selfishness on his part. Give him just that little bit more of a push to the dark side

Actually, the way it happened makes absolute perfect sense. One of the conditions of becoming a Jedi Master is that you need to train a Padawan until they attain the rank of Jedi Knight. Ahsoka was offered the title, but decided instead to leave the Order. When he's denied the rank of Master, it makes sense that Anakin would be mad since he technically did fulfill that condition, and in his eyes the Council is screwing him over on a technicality.

Killing Ahsoka out of selfishness, though, is very out of character for Anakin. At least, Anakin before his fall to the Dark Side; Vader would have cut her down no question, although he might have tried to talk her into becoming Sith first.

njb902 wrote:I guess my take on Anakin's character is different than your's, to me Anakin is all about himself. He is all about what he sees as his due.