Honestly though, I’d rather they just called it a day on the Star Wars films. Whilst I am a little hopeful that having Disney fund and JJ Abram direct a new film, I’m still suffering from the first three films.

I seriously question if they’d be able to NOT screw up even Timothy Zahn’s trilogy. And that’d be quite an accomplishment.

Not his fault that Red Dawn Stunk.

Obama should have a role and play…………yes, the dark side.

Cherokee on February 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM

Typecasting.

Meanwhile the kids who are doing daring deeds choose to defeat evil even though it will cost them there lives then when the evil is vanquished and the plasma wall from the exploding star is about to kill them the geezers arrive in the nick of time swooping them to safety.(The Falcon having set a new speed record.) lea welcomes the kids onto the falcon with cookies and then drags Han back to the bunk where the Solo Kids were conceived to try for one more. (Much to the disgust of the kids.)

Doesn’t really matter to me. George Lucas is way past his 3rd strike with me. No more star wars for this fan.

There’s nothing wrong with watching celebrities over 50 or 60 star in movies. Nobody stays 25 or 35 or 45 forever.

True, but let them play older characters–who may be dealing with issues of their grandchildren or adult sons or daughters. Meryl Streep and Michael Caine, for example, have had several starring roles where they look their age.

If George Lucas really wants the aging Harrison Ford as Han Solo, he should play an elder “mentor” to a younger spaceship pilot, and the film could include clips of the younger Han Solo as flashbacks.

If they throw away the establish timeline, the franchise is dead, as far as I’m concerned.

There is only one heir apparent to Han Solo. If you have seen ‘Firefly’ then you know Nathan Fillion is the perfect guy for the role. Even has the Ford look a bit…

(too bad he is a liberal douche though)

Chubbs65 on February 15, 2013 at 8:52 PM

I didn’t know Fillion was liberal, but most actors are, so I guess I should have expected that.

I’ve heard that suggestion before about Fillion playing Han Solo, but I don’t know.

Fillion does have the swagger of Solo/Ford, but something about Fillion playing Solo bothers me. I can’t put my finger on it.

See what I did there?

Splashman on February 15, 2013 at 8:49 PM

Just toss a random insult at some guy that wasn’t even clever.

There’s nothing wrong with watching celebrities over 50 or 60 star in movies. Nobody stays 25 or 35 or 45 forever.

And the Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino, starring Eastwood (who is in his 60s, 70s now and was when it was made?), was quite good.

You should care more about storyline and character development than about age.

If you’re that fixated on age, and that immature, by all means buy a copy of ‘Transformers’ to oogle Megan Fox all day. (One day Megan Fox will be 65 years old, by the way.)

Splashman on February 15, 2013 at 8:32 PM

Nah, I pretty much agree with the other guy.

I don’t care about the ages of the stars.

I am below the age of 45. We all get old. Why hold it against celebrities?

I’m tired of seeing ageism. I don’t care if Harrison Ford, Fisher, Hamill have grey hair and wrinkles and put on some weight. I think I’d rather see a few wrinkles than the unnatural, overly botoxed, face-lifted to here stars.

Loved Judi Dench in ‘Chronicles of Riddick’, and the older cast members in the action film RED were good, too.

Okay, enough already. It would take crazy old cat lady AP to start this thread,
but it’s disappointing to see others take his lead.
So what’s the idea here? That nobody ever gets older?
That there’s no value to exploring the evolving contributions people make as they age? That there’s nothing of interest in exploring character development in movies? That we all need one more slam-bang shoot-em-up space opera

Havent posted here in awhile, so sorry if I commit any faux pas. I also admit that I have never seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the last Indiana Jones movie I have seen was a few decades ago, and generally the only movies that I view are techno-geek ones like Star Trek and Star Wars.

Anyway, I agree with fabrexe. It would be interesting to see how HS evolves. It would be awesome to bring back HF as a renaissance man Han Solo – kind of a Jean Luc Picard, as someone suggested. But leave Chewie out of it – I never really understood the affinity for that big shaggy carpet – a bit annoying to me, though not as annyoing as Jar Jar Binks. It would be ridiculous to try to cast some younger actor as Han Solo, IMO.

by having him climb the ranks of the Rebel Alliance and appear as a General or Admiral, etc.

Amateur alert. Solo was already a general for the Endor battle of ROTJ.

The Zahn trilogy did a good job of it. In that one Solo was wearing suits and ties, and working as, if I recall correctly, in intelligence and diplomacy, and had turned into a right proper magnificent bastard.

In this movie Han doesn’t shoot first, because he’s really damn old and has slow reflexes.

Rambotito on February 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM

Thread winner

faster faster.. I read Peter Jackson bought the rights, but can’t get studio backing for it.. and I’d love to see that on film.

It doesn’t matter what Harrison Ford looks like, as long as Calista loves him.

listens2glenn on February 16, 2013 at 12:25 AM

Calista ?? Oh yeah they are great together huh ?

Althought I admit when I first saw a photo of them hand in hand, I thought HF needs a pair scissors to cut that loose thread hanging from his sleeve.

Hard to call something that is a worldwide cultural phenomenon and paved the way for the summer movie blockbuster cr*p.

RedRobin145 on February 15, 2013 at 6:25 PM

It was pretty easy for Sir Alec, considering the GOOD movies that he was in…

upcoming Ender’s Game movie?

Woo Hoo!