Carrie Fisher confirms Leia's in Episode VII

Speaking of Star Wars (rather than Hamill's resume; just look it up on IMDB guys! :D), is there any official lore on Yoda's race? He can't be last of his kind, that'd just be too weird IMO.
 
jimbo75 said:
I don't like the sound of this. They are all too old and it's better to hand their legacy down instead of risking it in what could be a disaster of a movie.
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It certainly doesn't need to be a disaster. I actually am feeling pretty good about it turning out well.
 
Grall said:
Speaking of Star Wars (rather than Hamill's resume; just look it up on IMDB guys! ), is there any official lore on Yoda's race? He can't be last of his kind, that'd just be too weird IMO.
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Didn't Knights of the Old Republic have a jedi who belonged to the same race?
 
Do video games count as official canon though? Anyway, I never played any of the KOTORs. Jedi Knight and JKII yes, and partway through Republic Commando (good game; I just got distracted and never managed to get back to it.)
 
There is going to be a quiet expanded universe fanboy meltdown as all of that is totally blasted into nothingness. :)

Mark Hamill's most amazing role was of course as Adrian Ripburger, villain of Full Throttle. Or that awesomely cheesy sci-fi movie, The Guyver. Or maybe his guest starring moments in Seaquest as some alien shapeshifter gone university professor. Hmmmm...
 
I thought KOTOR was set a long time before Star Wars, so Yoda is actually the last?
 
John Reynolds said:
Didn't Knights of the Old Republic have a jedi who belonged to the same race?
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Indeed: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Vandar_Tokare

And I'm pretty sure anything that's part of the Expanded Universe is considered canon, although games with multiple paths have to sanction a specific path as canon.

Malo said:
I thought KOTOR was set a long time before Star Wars, so Yoda is actually the last?
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Yeah it's about 4000 years before the battle of Yavin IV. So I suppose he could be the last.
 
It will be interesting to see how many thousands of lines in wookiepedia/jedipedia/etc will fly into trash when the new movie rewrites the 'official' canon. There's incredibly rich history of events post-EP6 written in books and comics - much of it is total crap, of course, but maybe it might be worth trying to keep coherent with some of the least crap parts.

Having the original cast in the retirement age would fit with implementing the new trilogy on Anakin/Jacen/Jaina Solo, Ben Skywalker etc. There's a clear risk of going over the edge into soap opera, though.
 
I read the Thrawn trilogy many years ago; it was pretty good for being mass-produced sci-fi pulp, not exactly high literature, but it killed time for sure. I'm pretty sure that trying to establish new movies on THAT particular canon would be completely disastrous though. You need a focused, cohesive vision to make successful movies; building upon a massive patchwork hodge-podge created over what, 20 years or so (maybe/probably more, I dunno!), by tons of different authors... No, it could only turn out badly.
 
I never actually read the Thrawn books but most of the "Rogue Squadron" books were pretty decent.

The "New Jedi Order" books, on the other hand... *Shudders*
 
The time line for the Thrawn books wouldn't work with Ford, Hamil and Fisher, they're much too old. Would be good movies though.
 
Mariner said:
I never actually read the Thrawn books
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Then by all means do it. They really are quite enjoyable if all you're looking for is something exciting to read. Timothy Zahn can spin some pretty decent action yarns actually! He treats the characters faithfully, and the storyline makes sense, largely anyway. There's also a very fascinating badguy involved.

Anyway, I wasn't suggesting actually shooting the Thrawn books as such; there's of course way too much stuff and way too many characters involved for that to work. You'd need to make a full trilogy of each book at least to do the story justice. It's the only experience I have of star wars beyond the Lucas movies (other than a single black-and-white comic book issue I got as a kid; now long lost in the mists of time).

Aren't all post-RotJ books considered part of the same timeline? It ought to be a real mess by now after so many years and books. You simply HAVE to throw all that old garbage out; start fresh, with a clean sheet. That's the only way that will work, although it will undoubtedly step on many fanboys' toes who are in love with those books...
 
I actually thought that the "New Republic" milieu created by the various authors (including Zahn) was actually pretty well-done and coherent. I certainly don't remember reading anything which contradicted events in any of the other books. There must have been some decent editing/organisation going on behind the scenes! It certainly wouldn't be disastrous if the new movies were to take a lead from this series of books.

Obviously not the way that Hollywood works, however. They'll just ignore all that potential source material and come up with a paper-thin load of bullshit which doesn't make sense but has lots of explosions and jerky-cam!
 
Mariner said:
Obviously not the way that Hollywood works, however. They'll just ignore all that potential source material and come up with a paper-thin load of bullshit which doesn't make sense but has lots of explosions and jerky-cam!
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You would never make it in Hollywood. You forgot the lens flares.
 
http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-7-cast-announced.html

New and old cast revealed.
Carrie Fisher for Leia, Mark Hamill for Luke, Harrison for for Han Solo, Anthony Daniels for C3-PO, Peter Mayhew for Chewbacca and Kenny Baker for R2- D2.
They really did bring the old team together.

All the new actors are fairly unknown to me, but everyone seems to be making a big fuss about Adam Driver.
 
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