ST New report: Ep VII to focus on the OT "big three"

Good grief I hope this is true. Disney has plans to release a ton of new Star Wars films, so one more heavily featuring the "big 3" is an extraordinary idea. If this pans out this ratchets up my excitement for VII to beyond the outer limits.

 

I don't necessarily mean they will have lied. If you market the Big 3 and they have equal roles to the newbies, then those targeted by the marketing will, in their mind, keep the Big 3 in the spotlight. It's not like I'm saying when the movie comes out they end up having cameos.

 

I would bet the farm they got bumped up from "2 scene cameos" to "costars" along with the next gen, which in Hollywood trade speak translates to "main leads".

 

It could be like Indiana Jones and Henry Jones in The Last Crusade. Both generations had key roles.

 

It all depends on the plot, IMO. I will wait until anything is confirmed to have an opinion. However, I will say this: one thing that the ST will benefit heavily from is the fact that Luke, Leia, and Han have already been developed. So while they may take center stage with the action and advancement of the story, we won't have to worry about their character development, and can completely focus on whoever the "next generation" is. With the PT, we had to worry about getting to know Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padme and in some cases, Qui-Gon). The ST won't have to suffer from that.

 

With the prequels George Lucas effectively rewrote the previous saga of Luke as lead and switched it over to Anakin. So actually the six main Star Wars films we have do feature the story of one man's journey from boyhood to death, and how his life affects the entire galaxy. When we see the opening of A New Hope Vader is no longer a mysterious villain, he's now a central character we saw literally grow up in the previous three films. Anybody watching the saga in chronological order now inherits Anakin's story in IV, with Luke, his son, playing a role in HIS story.

The great conflict we're now inheriting is not Luke's or Leia's battle against the Empire, but the leftovers from Obi-Wan and Anakin. In fact, since both characters have significant screentime in ANH, they can almost now be confused as sharing leading positions with Luke, and certainly on par with Leia and Han.

So sorry, we actually do have a huge precedence for older characters crossing over into new films as the strong focal points.

 

Everyone always forgets Lando...

 

Let's be real here. Of course they're going to have the big three as the main characters. Why? Because that's what the fans want and expect. JJ knows this.

 

I never forget Lando! Also, I have six Landos in my avatar to make sure that nobody else forgets him.

 

Aren't the big 3 enough?

 

I love Lando, and fully expect to see him or his offspring. But Lando was always a supporting character who had a stronger place in Empire, and a very secondary role in Jedi (Jedi does not do a very good job at even keeping Lando's best characteristics in tact). For me it's like Threepio, R2, and Chewie; I love them, can't wait to see them, but I rarely talk about them at this point.

 

Just say Lando met a girl and got heavily into Spice and flew off into the unknown regions and was never seen again

 

Why would Lando be left out? The now middle trilogy carries over Anakin, Yoda, Obi-Wan, Palpatine, Beru, Owen, Chewie, Threepio, Boba Fett, R2D2, Tarkin, Luke, Leia, and Jabba the Hutt from the PT (and this works in reverse obviously).

Considering the history of carry over with this saga, it seems perfectly fitting that Lando would be brought into the ST onscreen. Why the hell not?

 

Depends on how he would be written. Or do you just want Fan service?

 

Lando will be in the ST at some point. Why? Because most of the characters who carry over from the PT to the OT are dead so they need some OT'ers in the ST. Otherwise if only 3 characters from the OT show up (and everyone else is freakin' dead) would be kind of a bummer.

 

I'd like to see Lando. Any good writer could insert him logically into a sequel to ROTJ without it being unnecessary or pointless. We're not talking about Palpatine showing up from the dead for a wink and a nod here. Again, in a saga that has great carryover from trilogy to trilogy, there is no actual reason NOT to include Lando.

 

Now if Lando showed up in Episode 8 that might work better. Rather than stacking everyone in Episode 7.

 

This conversation is hilarious.

It's as if the PT was released before the OT and upon hearing that Yoda would be returning for the OT, people started to complain that they don't understand why he didn't just die between the films. I mean he was already so old, so why bring him back for some "fan service"?

 

So let's say Obi-Wan had a love child with Satine during TCW. And let's say this 20-something mixed race girl is the granddaughter (not daughter) as a result of that affair. The mixed race thing can come from the generation in between.

Remember last year when a rumor popped up that some British black actor named Dave (can't remember his last name) was gonna play a character in VII and an "ancestor/ relative" to that character in Rebels? Is it possible that's connected to the whole Kenobi family tree thing?

 

Maybe it's just a leak? As we get closer to production, more and more people learn these details, which is impossible to hide.

 

Two words: "Chancellor Calrissian"

Roll it around. It feels good. You know it to be true.

 

I think Lando in Ep. 8 would work if only because he's introduced in Ep 5 as is a wild-card to the plot so it'd be nice if they did the same thing in Ep. 8. I'd be fine with Lando in Ep. 7 but holding him back to Ep. 8 to stir things up might not be the worst idea.