You didn’t need to be a prescient Jedi master to predict the minute Disney and Lucasfilm made last week’s big, exciting announcement that the
Star Wars galaxy would return to our screens, the rumours about who might be involved would start flying.
And fly they have, with word on both Harrison Ford possibly being up for a return to Han Solo’s trousers and our first rumoured director candidate.
Entertainment Weekly’s new hire, Geoff Boucher (formerly of the LA Times) has a source saying that Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are all “upbeat” about returning to the franchise that effectively helped launch their careers.
While we naturally have to file this one in the soon-to-be-bulging New
Star Wars Rumour File, it’s a hopeful sign that we really will see the three original leads passing the torch – or the lightsaber – to new characters.
The new trilogy would presumably pick up about twenty years after the end of the three original films. Building an entire arc around Ford (70), Hamill (62) and Fisher (forever 27) is probably not the best of ideas, but including the original stars in a hand-off to a new generation could be a way to appease the fans and inject some new life into the series.
Ford, who has never been the most vocal fan of
Star Wars’ scripts, also thought Han should have died in
Return Of The Jedi to give it more emotional weight. He was the least likely of the three to make a return, but the idea he’d even consider it makes us very happy indeed. And Boucher is not a man to spread wild rumours, either.
As to the director rumours, the gang at Collider have heard that Matthew Vaughn, who recently departed the big chair on
X-Men: Days Of Future Past, could be in talks to pick up the megaphone for the new Wars outing, due in 2015.
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