ST Harrison Ford (Han Solo) in TFA

Well, I don't imagine they're going to have him shooting action scenes quite yet. They'll do scenes like the Falcon's cockpit where it doesn't matter if he has a cast and doesn't have his full range of mobility.

It shouldn't be the exact same as his OT costumes, no. Inspired by, yes, but no one is wearing the same clothes after 30 years.

 

I'm not sure which one is the lesser of two evils... the Star Wars set, or a British hospital... How quickly he's motivated to do his scenes depends upon which one he hates more.

 

Anyone else heard the news from his publicist that he actually broke his leg and not ankle?

 

Han doesn't wear clothes anymore. In fact, in this new society, nobody does. It's illegal.

 

Wow! His leg? My goodness.

 

Han naga ta poodoo pawa.

 

Glad to hear the surgery went well and he's on the mend!!

 

He's looking forward to returning to work? I don't think this is the real Harrison Ford anymore.

 

Bionic Han Solo!

 

I would imagine a broken leg will heal easier than a broken ankle. It is easier to stabilize, and a much bigger bone. With an ankle you are dealing with many small bones, ligaments, and the sort. This is good news, not only for Star Wars, but Harrisons long term side effects.

 

So his leg was broken and he had surgery. Apparently it was a bit more intense than we thought.

 

...and hopefully the spokesman really meant "leg", rather than "said leg but meant ankle". Time will tell.

 

When they said "Break a Leg!", they were speaking metaphorically, Mr. Ford.

 

So did they turn Ford into Robocop?

 

Hmm..just learnt of the 'leg break' news and I have to admit to being slightly concerned by it. Above all else, the main thing is that Harrison is ok. But what worries me is that Harrison isn't a young man anymore, and these types of injuries take longer to fully heal in people of advanced years. If action scenes are required of him then he may not be fit and able for quite a while yet. Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but I worry there's a chance this may affect the release date?

 

Give Han a bionic leg. Problem solved.

 

Here's something that I think may be being overlooked in this whole matter: the news reports I've heard over the past week have consistently said that he got injured on the Millennium Falcon interior set by a hydraulic door coming down on his ankle with sufficient force to do all the damage it did.

What I want to ask is this: a HYDRAULIC DOOR?! As in a REAL one? I understand perfectly well the need to go practical this time around, to keep things real and/or real-looking whenever possible. But is that how they were done back in the day? Does anyone remember the doors of the previous Falcon sets as actually being hydraulic in nature? Sure, they were probably intended to REPRESENT hydraulic doors, or the GFFA technological equivalent thereof; but on-set, weren't the doors just pulled open and closed by a bunch of guys off-camera, and then sped up in post-production? And wouldn't it have been simpler, cheaper - and, in the end, possibly safer for Harrison - if they went that route now?

Plus, we've all seen these movies: we know that hydraulic doors, particularly in the OT, go down so fast that they could get a second job as guillotines (the Death Star takes the speed prize, but the Falcon's doors weren't much slower). If they were trying to reproduce that visual effect mechanically, it's no wonder it came down hard enough on Harrison's ankle to do damage. A couple inches to one direction or another, and we now might be mourning not the possible loss of a fictional character, but the genuine loss of a good actor.

 

Give Han a Segway to drive around in!

 

I've read reports that it was actually a stage door.

EDIT: Nevermind, I looked for it but couldn't find anything...

 

That's why I think it was a stage door and not a door on set.

 

Whoa, so he broke his leg? Oh well.

 

I've seen it reported every which way... "stage door", "garage door", "airlock door on the Falcon"... Since the other actors now want everything ON THE SET checked three times over, and based on other things I've read, I'm betting on "airlock door on the Falcon" (which may involve hydrolics, and closes like a garage door).