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Billy Dee Williams is on board for Episode IX

   
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Of course he is, they need an original cast member to kill off...

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Poor Denis Lawson, overlooked for death yet again...

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 Riquende wrote:
Poor Denis Lawson, overlooked for death yet again...


...they just can't catch him. Faulty starship, my arse.

Any takers on the the final movie resulting in the destruction of C-3PO and R2-D2. A final insult to the original trilogy but cementing the idea that the whole 9 story arc was the story of the droids? (Not that they've feature that much in the latest adventures....)
   
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 Riquende wrote:
Poor Denis Lawson, overlooked for death yet again...


speaking of overlooked people, you'd think they'd let David Prowse get a cameo in, with a speaking role.

He really is the living proof that lucasfilms has a long toxic history of attacking it's fans.

I wonder what horrors they're going to do to Lando. I'd love to see Lando ***** slap Finn, and say, dude I was the man, stop acting like the comic relief and grab your gun.



 
   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Billy Dee Williams is on board for Episode IX


Oh yeah. Lando was long my favourite Star Wars character. I was introduced to the Star Wars by comics before I saw the movies, and they took place between ESB and RotJ. So it was Lando flying the Millenium Falcon around. And when I saw the first movie, I was bit confused. "Where is Lando? Is this 'Han' character who they are always talking about in the comics but who is never shown? Whadda loser."

Can't wait how they kill him off in some horrible fashion

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I suspect Lando will take over from Leia?

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I suspect Lando will take over from Leia?


Or he will provide them with a safe place to crash while they recoup and maybe help broker some alliances with others to get them resupplied and remaned.


These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
 
   
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 Lance845 wrote:
 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I suspect Lando will take over from Leia?


Or he will provide them with a safe place to crash while they recoup and maybe help broker some alliances with others to get them resupplied and remaned.


Likely this, it mirrors his original appearence in ESB and they're shown that they want to repeat scenes and themes from OT.
Lando might even be the Emperor! Apparently, old Empire still exists, in rump form.

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I think he will be a used-Starship salesperson who they go to to get help, and he re-buffs them saying that is all behind him now. He has child-support payments now and can barely even afford a good cape anymore. Thus, the last hero from the Original trilogy is discredited and their legacy destroyed.

What's that you say?.... A different director? Oh, I have no idea.

Billy Dee was in Undercover Brother in 2002. Everyone should go see it!

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 Easy E wrote:
He has child-support payments now...


... supporting a half-human, half-toaster child...

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sirlynchmob wrote:
 Riquende wrote:
Poor Denis Lawson, overlooked for death yet again...


speaking of overlooked people, you'd think they'd let David Prowse get a cameo in, with a speaking role.

He really is the living proof that lucasfilms has a long toxic history of attacking it's fans.

I wonder what horrors they're going to do to Lando. I'd love to see Lando ***** slap Finn, and say, dude I was the man, stop acting like the comic relief and grab your gun.




Unfortunately, David Prowse is neither physically nor mentally up to that task these days. He has difficulty remembering many things and the the brummie accent just wouldn't work anyway.
(he no longer does con appearances for these reasons, too).

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 chromedog wrote:
...and the the brummie accent just wouldn't work anyway.


Brummie? Brummie?! Prowse is from Bristol!

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's alla same, tho innit?

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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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As much as I want to play (and am entitled to) the Buckinghamshire-raised received pronunciation "all you others are frightful oiks" card; Dave Prowse is a West Country farmer, not a brummie.

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It’s out on digital and I’ve just watched it again.

It remains pretty ace!

   
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I honestly had fun, and so did the wife. We both like the non-trilogy movies better than Episodes 7/8.



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Agreed. Rogue One and Solo are better than TFA and TLJ.

I would (and have) watched Rogue One again, and will watch Solo again. I have no need to see the Nu-Trilogy films again.

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I just watched Solo the other day, and I have to say I really liked it. Made me regret not seeing it in the theater. Its a shame they probably wont make a sequel. I though everyone on the cast did a good job, and that Solo's actor did better than I though he would based on rumors.

My one complaint is that it felt like the could have expanded on Beckett's crew, perhaps have the first part of the movie have been a separate film, focusing on Han in the Army and forming a relationship with Beckett.

Still though I liked it, I liked it much much much more than Episodes 7 and 8.

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If it does well on home release, pretty sure we’ll see a sequel.


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Also, now watching the extras.

Man, they put some genuine craftsmanship into this, and the amount of practical effects is really quite something. I do recommend watching them, especially to marvel at just how much Ron Howard managed in a very short timescale.

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I won't be racing out to purchase Solo, but I would watch it again.

I maintain my main criticism that the movie goes inverse though - the best action and most interesting portions are up front, and the movie gets progressively less interesting/boring as it finishes. Bizarre that.
   
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 Elbows wrote:
I won't be racing out to purchase Solo, but I would watch it again.

I maintain my main criticism that the movie goes inverse though - the best action and most interesting portions are up front, and the movie gets progressively less interesting/boring as it finishes. Bizarre that.
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Wow, I could not disagree more with this. I thought everything up to and including the train heist was complete garbage and everything afterward was quite good. Different strokes I guess.
   
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Elbows - I can follow your point insomuch as the scale of the action is smaller toward the end of the picture. But I thought that was appropriate because the final issues of the plot were intimate questions about personl loyalty.

   
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I'd second that, the various double crossings are the highlight of the film.

Of course, the thing I found was, while it's pretty obvious that everyone short of Chewie is going to start double crossing people, I never did work out who was going to doublecross whom in what ways.
   
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I finally saw this for the first time a week ago. I thought it was okay, or at least acceptable. Until they brought back a character i've always felt should stay dead, cause he was never interesting and a 1 dimensional character who was literally maimed dead in a past movie. As soon as this character showed up my jaw just about hit he floor in horror and disgust. I almost feel like saying I wish Lucas never sold SW to Disney, i'd almost rather have no new SW films than see them turn into absurd fan fiction stylings.

 
   
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Yeah I was on the fence about Qi’ra throughout. It was esepcially enjoyable because I really liked the relationship between her and Han. When she tells him to go ahead and she’ll catch up, it was like, oh damn I have seen enough 80s movies to know you ain’t coming baby.
 Thargrim wrote:
i'd almost rather have no new SW films than see them turn into absurd fan fiction stylings.
The kicker is, the particular thing you have in mind was done by LucasFilm prior to the sale.

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Yeah if that happened in a cartoon/comic or book then I was definitely unaware of it becoming some kind of canon thing. I consider myself a casual SW fan at best. Whatever free time I get i'm not gonna spend on reading books or watching cartoons to try and keep up to date. I've got too much stuff to paint and build, there's an immense amount of things i'd rather be doing.

 
   
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It was a major plot arc in the Clone Wars TV show. I agree with you about the character being terrible and bringing him back being dumb. But I had known about it for years so it wasn’t a make-me-want-to-puke gut punch when I saw him in Solo. To the contrary, it seemed like a neat way to weave a common thread through what, at the time, was going to be a series of one-off movies culminating with a film about Obi-Wan Kenobi.

   
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 Thargrim wrote:
Yeah if that happened in a cartoon/comic or book then I was definitely unaware of it becoming some kind of canon thing. I consider myself a casual SW fan at best. Whatever free time I get i'm not gonna spend on reading books or watching cartoons to try and keep up to date. I've got too much stuff to paint and build, there's an immense amount of things i'd rather be doing.


Don’t write off The Clone Wars. It’s a superb series which adds a new richness to the setting.

   
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 Thargrim wrote:
I finally saw this for the first time a week ago. I thought it was okay, or at least acceptable. Until they brought back a character i've always felt should stay dead, cause he was never interesting and a 1 dimensional character who was literally maimed dead in a past movie. As soon as this character showed up my jaw just about hit he floor in horror and disgust. I almost feel like saying I wish Lucas never sold SW to Disney, i'd almost rather have no new SW films than see them turn into absurd fan fiction stylings.


In Disney's defense (I NEVER thought I'd be saying that in relation to Star Wars), LucasFilm had already brought that particular character back during the Clone Wars animated series... well before the Disney buyout.

EDIT: And I see I've been beaten to the punch several times over...

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