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Interesting.

I once heard a rumor that Lucas wanted Mifune to play Obi Wan. That would have made a good casting choice, but at the same time, I couldn't imagine that role without Guiness.
 
orpheus said:
Interesting.

I once heard a rumor that Lucas wanted Mifune to play Obi Wan. That would have made a good casting choice, but at the same time, I couldn't imagine that role without Guiness.
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I've read that, as well, and IIRC, in one of the commentaries Lucas says he wanted Mifune to be in the original movie. Supposedly Mifune turned it down because he thought it was going to be a kids movie.

Tsk.

Worked out ok, though. :)
 
I think that if it wasn't for all of the input from the talented people that Lucas surrounded himself with back in the day, the classic Star Wars movies would have been a lot more like the prequels than what they turned out to be. In other words, if his original vision had been allowed to run its course, the movies would have been flops.
 
Seems like a good choice. Seems like a safe choice. I guess I shouldn't expect anything else. They need to get the franchise back on it's legs again. Hopefully Disney will be a bit more creative with all the projects they spin from the main body. He is going to have to work pretty hard to distance it from his Trek flicks though. That's my only real concern. Oof...one thing they got right, his 'mums the word' policy as far as spoilers will fuel the excitement more than the actual movie will.
 
I'm just curious how he's going to work in Solo and Leia and Skywalker. Figure he'll do something similar to what he did with Nimoy in Star Trek? Cameo of sorts that lends itself to the plot? *Fingers crossed that Naysay doesn't come in here discussing the "plot" of Star Trek*
 
SmytheKing said:
I'm just curious how he's going to work in Solo and Leia and Skywalker. Figure he'll do something similar to what he did with Nimoy in Star Trek? Cameo of sorts that lends itself to the plot? *Fingers crossed that Naysay doesn't come in here discussing the "plot" of Star Trek*
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Hey man.........

I liked Star Trek. I liked it a lot.
 
Well, the differnce is Abrams is coming into a situation where the script is kinda written, and in order to make the proposed date there isn't a lot of room for tinkering. So yeah, it's a different situation than Star Trek. That's the most surprising aspect of this. This is a guy who wouldn't do Star Trek 2 unless he was able to move off the intended date by like a year.
 
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Awesome to hear the JJ Abrams news. Hopefully we get some Fringe ex-cast members added to the cast. :)
 
Star Wars Report: Episode Seven Would Have Starred Chloe Moretz If Matthew Vaughn Had His Way - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

We knew that work was continuing to get The Secret Service set up as Vaughn’s next film, and it looked to us at Bleeding Cool that he wasn’t moving forward on Star Wars.

But we didn’t know how far his conversations with Kennedy had gone.

Well, apparently they went far enough that they talked about casting, and Vaughn pitched Chloe Moretz as the lead of the film.

This doesn’t confirm that Michael Arndt‘s screenplay will have a female lead, as much as it might suggest it. Vaughn is pretty hands on with screenplays and it’s just as likely, if not more so, that he had his own ideas for where a seventh episode of Star Wars should go. That might be where Moretz fit in – in a Vaughn-devised plot.

Or maybe Arndt really is writing up a female lead.
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You could do a hell of a lot worse than casting Moretz.
 
SmytheKing said:
It's been a while since that was discussed. I thought you didn't like it because of all the continuity issues.
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Hmm....

that certainly sounds like me....

But no.

I love the new Star Trek. I'm perfectly fine with continuity issues or logical deviations so long as the movie knows what it is and has limited pretensions.

Star Trek was just fun. Fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun.

Did it have some glaring plot holes? I'm not sure... cus I was having too much fun watching it.
 
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