Posted on 03/07/2013 4:57:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
Another day, another Star Wars rumor -- though this one is more trustworthy than most.
In a new profile in Bloomberg Businessweek, George Lucas and Disney executives discuss the long road that led to the purchase of Lucasfilm in October. Of particular interest for fans of the movies is the fact that Lucas confirms that he had begun talks with original Star Wars stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford to have them return to the franchise for its new films -- before he had even begun the process of the corporate offloading.
"We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison -- or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation," Lucas told the magazine. "So I called them to say, Look, this is whats going on.' Maybe Im not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-dee-doo, but we were negotiating with them.
I wont say whether the negotiations were successful or not."
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not.
He also played the lead role in "Wing Commander III" and "Wing Commander IV" which were some of the earliest big-budget PC CD-ROM games to be filmed as movies. He was actually very good in those, too.
I beg your pardon. "Corvette Summer" - maybe the single greatest film in history. It makes "Stage Coach" and "Battleship Potemkin" look like utter dreck in comparison. Only Hammill could have given such a once in a century performance.
Decent Flick, though.
She’s 56. Very few women look the same at 56 as they did at 26, even with surgical makeovers.
Harrison Ford looks good, but I wish he’d lose that silly earring.
She has not aged well, though. That is an issue for women actors.
Particularly women actors whose audience remembers them looking like this:
They can work magic, I’m not concerned about it.
Age 26
Age 56
Yes, a few do.
Yeah.
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