Harrison Ford In 'Star Wars: Episode VII'? Han Solo Reportedly Back For New Film

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post



That Ford would return to "Star Wars" is somewhat expected. Back in November of 2012, shortly after Disney announced plans for further "Star Wars" films, EW.com's Geoff Boucher revealed that Ford was interested in coming back, though the star did have one request: that Han Solo perish in the new film.

Ford hasn't been shy about his vision of the Han Solo character; he famously wanted Solo to die at the end of "Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi," but George Lucas decided that would be a bad idea for financial reasons.

"I thought he should have died in the last one, just to give it some bottom; some gravitas," Ford told Peter Travers in an interview with ABC in 2010. "George didn't think there was any future in dead Han toys." During that same interview, Ford expressed concern about there being any future for Solo. "I don't think there's a way to weave him back into the story," he said.

The Latino Review report is just the latest "Star Wars" rumor to hit the internet this year. Some of the news has been confirmed (J.J. Abrams will direct the next installment in the franchise), while others have not (Disney still hasn't locked down any of the rumored standalone films, which could focus on a young Han or Yoda).

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Holy Crap! Unconfirmed, but I Will Take It.

I don't want to see another Zero like this one in a Star Wars film:

[Javaman]

1. My Star Wars Geekness just fainted with delight. LOL nt

[edbermac]

2. Harrison Ford will be in it?

Is he playing Yoda?

[Helen Reddy]

34. Hahaha!

Very funny. How old is Ford now? 102 he is.

[renegade000]

3. be careful what you wish for....

Planet of the Crystal Skull anyone?

[limpyhobbler]

11. oh dear god please no. just no

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. retccchh...

I am still trying to erase my memory of the last Star Trek film.

[Hard Assets]

37. Hmmmmm

I didn't think that was *that* bad... I saw it twice in the theatres.

[Hard Assets]

36. wasn't that bad of a flick.

Just wish that River Phoenix didn't die.

If you know what I mean.

[Liberalagogo]

4. Just sayin'

Harrison Ford - 70
Mark Hamill - 61
Carrie Fisher - 56
Billy Dee Williams - 75

Best to go the Star Trek route and reboot the characters.
Hence, JJ Abrams directing.
I mean, he killed Star Trek, why not kill Star Wars as well?

[DainBramaged]

10. The senior's bus is pulling up now

and they are passing out walkers

[azurnoir]

12. yep and in the JJ Abrams story

Padme Amidala doesn't die, she raises Luke and Leia as a single Mom with Obi Wan as her live-in partner...........

[graham4anything]

25. Logically, I disagree.

Star Trek was for all intent and purpose, dead.
Abrams revived it and has given it new fuel.

It was genius to have Leonard Nimoy come back as Spock with Zach Quinto as the younger Spock.

Now I would love to know if they remmber that Indy drank an immortality potion in Indy3
but they seemed to forget in Indy4 that Sean Connery also drank it.

and like the comics are doing, after 3 movies they do it all over so it don't matter.

As for Star Wars, Lucas isn't doing it for our generation anyhow.

Personally, I am curious if after the 9th one, it leads to Earth being born.

[KatyMan]

27. Agree with you completely

I thought the last Star Trek was great! Watch it often

[Liberalagogo]

45. Rebuttal

Star Trek was for all intent and purpose, dead.

Not by a long shot. It had dropped off the big/small screen, but still very successful in the literary field.

Abrams revived it and has given it new fuel.

Turning it into a brain-dead action movie franchise is not new fuel.

It was genius to have Leonard Nimoy come back as Spock with Zach Quinto as the younger Spock.

Never said anything bad about the casting. The writing is what was/is atrocious. Been slightly better without Nimoy and just a straight reboot.

Personally, I am curious if after the 9th one, it leads to Earth being born.

Battlestar Galactica reboot did it first. As did Douglas Adams.

[graham4anything]

53. I don't consider the books part of the "real" universe.

I think of them as a side spin off, but not official.

It's like when TNG came out, and the original fans like me said it wasn't the same
but we got used to it, etc.

Just that the name is alive is a good thing.

Now if only the real world could have what they had, and instantly cure all diseases and stuff.

But it's like the remake of the Prisoner, I thought it was awful.
The 17 original ones were classic. Never come up with writing like that.
(and IMHO Drake was 6).(and 6 might have been 1 all along).

[Liberalagogo]

55. That's what you focus on?

You don't read the books, I get it.

The sequential series, even Enterprise to an extent, kept the spirit alive. These new films are just pandering to the brain-dead. If they got better writers, like sqay the people behind the Battlestar Galatica reboot, then it would make good movie Trek. They have a good cast, decent effects (except for the bridge and engineering of the new Enterprise), but the writing is atrocious and will stay that way as long as Abrams is associated with it. He is better suited for the brain-dead fantasy of Star Wars, which I enjoy, rather than the uplifting smart universe of Trek.

[graham4anything]

57. Kids these days don't like smart.

Look how David Lynch can't sell one ticket, and any crap Tarentino puts out makes a billion.
Any two year old could write that.

The books for Star Wars and Star Trek (and comic books and gothic books) always have been out, but they were never considered part of the official timelines. Just side projects.

In the end, does it really matter?

Take Superman.
George Reeves to me is the only Superman.And he was true to the original comic.
Most don't even remember him.
Eventually most won't remember Chris Reeve as Superman either
And the comics change the plotline so it makes no sense at all (but again, does it matter?)

If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today, would have been able to make say, Strangers on a Train?
I am sure it would not have been the same.
And Hitchcok's movies were better than the pulp books alot of them came from.

[Liberalagogo]

58. Yes, I realize it's called show BUSINESS

and today's generation considers comic books to be great literature.
And pretty much everything out of Hollywood is sequel/prequel after sequel/prequel or remake after remake. Little to no originality anymore.

It does matter, as if contributes to the continual dumbing down of our society. It's not totally repsonsible, but it doesn't help.

If you're served shit tacos, and told it's a meal, too many out there aren't willing to bitch about the taste.

Myself, I will not partake.

[graham4anything]

59. It's why I watch TCM, AntennaTV, my dvds and am selective about any new movie/tv.

But if I didn't go to the new Star Trek coming up, how would I know if its good or bad?
So I do.
Like I did Indy4. They need to make Indy5 to get rid of that stench.

Look at Leonard Cohen. He is playing places like Madison Square Garden now after being retired for years(while someone stole all his money so he came back). It is absurd to think someone like him should play MSG among 20,000 people. He should be seen in a club.
(though he makes it work, but its still absurd.) Few and far between.

What is really amazing in the first place is that any of this stuff actually still exists 50 years later. It wasn't filmed or recorded that way thinking it would be.

[Liberalagogo]

60. I went

to the new ST and will probably go to the new one with the horrible title. I enjoyed the cast is probably why. They did excellent work portraying the younger versions of the crew.

Indy 4....DO NOT get me started. I was so APPALLED it.

These older actors, while mostly still give good performances, many have not kept themselves in movie or HD quality shape. I prefer to remember their characters in their prime, not as actors trying to make a comeback or out of loyalty to the franchise.

Until they can perfect realistic CGI of humans where the characters are ageless, I'd rather see new cast members of proper ages for the characters. I sound ageist, but have no problem with actors and characters matching their ages with a good story. Although I doubt the studio execs nowadays would be likely to fund it.

The problem with the new Trek films is that so many fans get excitied and want a return to a weekly TV series. This new cast has a taste for being in successful films (Chris Pine for one), and won't for a long while go back to the grind of the small screen. Of course actors are whores, , so dangle a huge paycheck, and BANG....new Trek for TV!

[City Lights]

31. Billy Dee was recently in an episode of Modern Family.

I can't imagine putting that crew together for another SW episode.

[longship]

41. Get it right. Lucas killed Star Wars. Nobody else.

Item 1: Never ending future toy product placement.

Item 2: Ewoks! See item 1

Item 3: Jar-Jar! See item 1

Anything else? See item 1

The first one was fun, and even a bit self-effacing humor. The second, "Empire Strikes Back", was the best of the bunch. All the rest had nothing.

And I'm really looking forward to Disney's version... NOT! They'll probably turn it into an animated musical.

[Liberalagogo]

46. Rebuttal

Lucas didn't do Star Wars any favors after Empire. Abrams probably won't either, but since it's not as cerebral as Trek, he may keep it gasping for air.

As for:

I'm really looking forward to Disney's version... NOT! They'll probably turn it into an animated musical.

Too late....Lucas already did. The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

[longship]

47. ROFL! Touché! nt

[Lionel Mandrake]

54. All the rest had nothing?

I respectfully disagree. "Return of the Jedi" had one redeeming feature: a truly creepy emperor. Every childish fantasy needs a villain. The emperor was needed when Darth Vader went all soft and cuddly.

Too bad the emperor died so soon. He could have seduced Luke into the Dark Side and taught him how to make purple lightning. Later, Luke could have renounced evil (like Michael Corleone in another bad third movie). Just imagine a reinvigorated Luke with the power to make purple lightning!

I would have exterminated the ewoks instead of killing the emperor. I hated those fucking ewoks.

[exboyfil]

56. I heard the Ewoks were originally going to be

Wookiees, but that was scrapped to sell toys and go for the cute and cuddly. That was Lucas' original sin. All the trash which followed comes from that. A real intense battle between the Wookies and the Empire to get that shield down, and the final sacrificial death of Han Solo. That would have been a far better movie and a fitting ending to the series.

Also Lucas should have gotten a real writer for the last four movies (someone of Leigh Brackett's caliber). He can't write worth a darn (actually after the special effects the plots themselves are pretty weak and derivative which isn't bad with good dialogue and character development.

Also Lucas leave the movies alone. Does a print even exist of the original movies? One that does not include the youthful Annakin in the ghost scene at the end of the third movie.

[redgreenandblue]

5. Of course he will be in it, as will every other member of the original cast who is still alive and

was plot relevant. Disney will make them offers they can't refuse. They have the means. As much as they have already paid Lukas, it is pretty clear that they aren't screwing around.

[derby378]

6. Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill should be a package deal

After all, Luke Skywalker is the last remaining Jedi. Someone has to keep the Jedi flame burning before some Exar Kun wannabe reboots the Sith and makes life miserable for the galaxy.

[redgreenandblue]

7. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are rather cheap these days.

At least compared to Harrison Ford. But I suspect, the Disney strategy will be "keep throwing money at it until it works" in any case.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. "keep throwing money at it until it works"

That has worked so well for Microsoft and the notion of a movie franchise based on Halo.

[onehandle]

9. Back around the time of Empire Strikes Back, there was a story that Lucas promised Hamill...

...that the 'third trilogy' would come out in the late 90s and that he would be in it.

I believe this was in Starlog Magazine.

[Hard Assets]

38. Oh God, not Mark Hamill. Not after this.

[Bennyboy]

8. The Search for Eskaton!

Can't wait to see the product placements for this...

[Ian David]

13. Abrams should remake the Star Wars Holiday Special

[Hestia]

14. I dunno - I think he is too long in the tooth for this role unless he is there in a

grandfatherly type of character. It will be downright farcical if he plays Hans 36 years later doing the same bootlegging and rebel. He is 70 something after all - ah, 70, just looked it up.

[onehandle]

15. That's what I would expect. Hopefully something cleverer than that. nt

[KatyMan]

20. He is a grandfather in the novels. SPOILER ALERT

Jacen had a daughter.

[KatyMan]

16. There is already a continuing Star Wars story arc in the novels--SPOILER alert

The novels cover from pre-episode IV to a time when Han and Leia are in their 60'sand 50's. Two of the Solo children have been killed (Anakin and Jacen); Luke's wife- Mara has died; Chewbacca was killed. There have been multiple wars; Jacen Solo walked the dark side path, etc. My wife is a Star Wars geek and has read almost all the books. Don't really see how Disney can get around the books unless they try to sandwich in something between the book storylines.

[onehandle]

19. Rumor is that, that entire story arc will be purged from the Star Wars universe.

Terrible, terrible books.

However, my bet is that the focus of the next films will be their children, or grandchildren.

[KatyMan]

21. Some of the books were pretty bad

But certainly not all- the New Jedi Order; The Legacy series are pretty good. They are over 60 books-- not all of them are bad. The focus of the novels is on the children. Only one grandchild and she is only about 5 or 6. Each novel is sanctioned by LucasFilms and we Star Wars geeks would not be happy to have it changed.

[csziggy]

48. They did that with Star Gate

After the movie, there were several Star Gate novels published. Then the Star Gate series came out with a whole different version of what had followed the movie. The books are interesting on their own, but the series went a completely different direction.

[SheilaT]

39. Because out here in the rest of the world

most people have not read those books.

[KatyMan]

44. perhaps there are more

Star War geeks than you realize- book sales total 1.8 billion dollars. Someone besides my wife is reading them
But the point is that a story arc exists whether you have read it or not.

[matt819]

17. Will he be using a walker? nt

[KatyMan]

18. Well,

in the books both he and Leia are still very active. And just because someone is 70 doesn't mean they are not physically fit and/or active. Just saying...

[matt819]

49. You're right, of course

But whenever I see those pictures of him from the early movies and then see him now, I just can't help but chuckle. You're right, though, folks in their 70s can certainly be active, but saving the universe and stuff?

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Hopefully not an Imperial Walker...

eom.

[csziggy]

50. Give him a powered wheelchair

Just like Captain Christopher Pike!


Or Ironside.


Or even Davros, leader of the Daleks!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. He ended the last movie as a general and a hero so he's not going back to the outlaw life.

[NBachers]

28. OK, but only if he's embraced the Dark Side and comes back as a Mega Villain

[geek tragedy]

29. Like he came back for Indiana Jones: Crystal Skull?

that turned out AWESOME.

[JVS]

30. More movies? They're going to drive the franchise as far into the ground as Platnet of the Apes!

[samsingh]

32. i adore Harrison Ford but can't stand when actors want their characters to die

Nimoy went through that phase
Shatner got his way and has been trying to reverse that stupid decision ever since the character died.

give me doctor who who just transforms when an actor wants to move on.

[COLGATE4]

33. All I want is for them to kill off

Jar Jar Binks!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

43. Hey, that's racist! Or something... ;)

Kidding, kidding. Just riffing on the old saw that the Binks character was supposed to have been African American-esque. I always trout the JJ Binks character was one of the franchise's worst ideas.

[csziggy]

51. Here you go!

[asjr]

35. I wonder if he will use a walking cane in it.

[SheilaT]

40. On the other hand,

Simpsons already did the parody of the never-ending Star Trek series

[Cleita]

42. The first ones were fun but then it got boring.

I hope Harrison Ford has a good plastic surgeon. I can't imagine women swooning for him these days. He's as old as me.

[tridim]

52. I'm betting they'll go all out to make it spectacular, old cast or not.

They kind of have to if they want to make more movies.

[Politicalboi]

61. Look out Indy!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187269/look-out-indy

[steve2470]

62. your image is not showing up below your link, the one of Anakin

this one: images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24100000/Anakin-Skywalker-star-wars-characters-24132197-300-460.jpg



Ok, see it now here and in your OP.