[Closed] Star Wars, the reboot.

Bill Nighy as Obe Wan.

I'm wondering if Nathan Fillian as Han Solo is a little too obvious.

How dare you! (if you mean the original trilogy)

There's really no point, but it would have to be actors without much prior exposure, so that you can really 'believe' in them.

Some directing candidates:
Guillermo Del Toro
Darren Aronofsky

Although, to be honest, if you got Pixar to make it, it would probably be the best thing ever.

I'm wondering if Nathan Fillian as Han Solo is a little too obvious.

Nothing wrong with obviousness. It's the right choice to make.

For directing:

Darren Aronofsky

+1, but I'd like to propose a duo with Tarantino as well.

First person I thought of for Luke was Owen Wilson.

I shall, of course, kill myself immediately.

Although, to be honest, if you got Pixar to make it, it would probably be the best thing ever.

Errrr... didn't their live action space thing bomb horribly?

Directors, I fancy Paul Thomas Anderson, and Marc Forster.

Soundtrack, bored of Williams... but a score by **** Buttons? Might help give a post industrialist feel.

Dark, thrilling, violent, dramatic. Less child friendly.

I would also like to posit Chiwetel Ejiofor as Han Solo... just think about it a little bit...

Also Andy Hamilton as Chewbacca?

I was trying to think of someone who could play Leia. It can't just be a 'model'. She needs to have real character and 'spunk'.

Maybe:
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Lando - Denzel Washington
The Emperor - Hugo Weaving

Luke - Ryan Gosling..? Not sure about this one.

For Leia - Olivia Wilde or Emma Watson, can't really think of anyone else.

Also Andy Hamilton as Chewbacca?

"Aren't you a little short for a Wookie?"

The Emperor; what's John Hurt up to these days?

First person I thought of for Luke was Owen Wilson.

That couldn't be more bananas if you painted it yellow and hung it from a tree.

Luke Wilson for me.

I didn't say it was a particularly good thought.

Surely we can find a role for:
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they should do a Kung Fu version with Will Ferrel playing Chuck Norris playing Wuhan Solo.

if we change yoda from a green dude to a standard short dude, can we use tyrian the imp from game of thrones?

luke skywalker- bill bailey
obi wan- the guy who played father jack (in father ted)
han solo- the guy from black books (who owned the shop)
princess leia- cynthia rothrock (cos she can kick ass)
chewbacca- brian blessed (you know i'm right on this 😉
and david lynch can direct 😀

How about Angelina Jolie for Leia?

Surely we can find a role for..

only if he gets to say "shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit"

How about Angelina Jolie for Leia?

Yeah, and her lips could play jabba the hut.

Yoda has to be Andy Sirkis, surely.

only if he gets to say "shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit"

tom cruise as hand solo

matthew mcconnoheeee as luke skywalder

michael machentyre as chewbacco

tom jones as dart vader

hugh grant as oby one kinobey

I would suggest

[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/fullcredits#cast ]Can't mess with the holy trilogy![/Url]

Leia has to be [url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1720028/ ]Amber Heard[/url] if only for the slave costume part! 😯

Ah, if we're applying that logic, we need Christina Hendrickson.

Plus, we're long overdue a ginger Leia.

My cast would be:

Joseph Gordon Levitt as Luke Skywalker
Michael Caine as Obi Wan
Kiera Knightley as Princess Leia
Robert Downey Jr as Han Solo
David Tennant as the voice of C3-PO
Denzel Washington as Lando Calrissian
Gary Oldman as The Emperor
Ian McKellen as the voice of Darth Vader

Luke Skywalker - that would be me, I'm perfect for the part and would not let size, age or lack of acting ability get in the way.
Han Solo, oh, me definitely. Luke I am your long lost twin
Darth Vader - no, seriously, we're related too? wow, who'd have thought?

No i think C3PO should be Julian Clarey...

No i think C3PO should be Julian Clarey...

The obvious choice but too close to the original.

if it was remade today

theyd pick will smith for luke

oh and plus 1 million for christina hendrickson as leia

Luke - Jason Mewes
Han - Kevin Smith
Leia - Nicki Minaj

You know it makes sense

Don't you mean Silent Han - Kevin Smith?

I can see Kevin Smith as Lando, actually.

if it was remade today

theyd pick will smith for luke

There was talk of a live action Akira with Will Smith in the lead role 😳

The "lead" being Akira, or Kaneda?

Discussing this elsewhere, someone's suggested Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games woman) as Leia. Seems reasonable to me.

I assumed it would have been Kaneda or Tetsuo. Can't remember if they specifed who he was in line to play. Either way, it would have been crap.

That couldn't be more bananas if you painted it yellow and hung it from a tree.

Leave 4, 5, and 6 alone... Until you figure out a way to digitally replace ewoks with wookies.

Much more important is rebooting 1 , 2 , and 3. Starting with rewriting the stories from scratch.

Han Solo = Del Boy
Luke = Rodney
Chewbacca = Trigger
Yoda = Uncle Albert
Leia = Raquel
Millenium Falcon = Robin Reliant
Darth Vadar = Slater
Lando = Boycie
Death Star = Nags Head

This can be done by just superimposing customs over old repeats, bargain.

To be fair, the Family Guy parodies nailed it, so any remake is futile

Han Solo = Del Boy
Luke = Rodney
Chewbacca = Trigger
Yoda = Uncle Albert
Leia = Raquel
Millenium Falcon = Robin Reliant
Darth Vadar = Slater
Lando = Boycie
Death Star = Nags Head

My favourite episode is where Han Solo and Chewbacca are in the wine bar trying to impress a women by acting cool, when Han tries to lean on the open bar and falls over. I think the wine bar was the Cantina in Mos Eisley, South London.

I actually hope Lucas does do a Reboot of the originals. It's about time he tried to turn the Star Wars saga into a bit of a money spinner. I'm sure it has some potential to become a franchise.

BoardinBob - Member
To be fair, the [s]Family Guy[/s]robot chicken parodies nailed it, so any [b]Family guy[/b]remake is futile

 

To be fair, the Family Guyrobot chicken parodies nailed it, so any Family guyremake is futile

Ah, if we're applying that logic, we need Christina Hendrickson.

Plus, we're long overdue a ginger Leia.

Oh hell yes.

Dark, thrilling, violent, dramatic. Less child friendly

This

and Colin Farrell as Han Solo

and Terrance Malick collaborating with the Coen Brothers on screenplay/directing. I'd love to see how that turned out, maybe a kind of twisted dark violent version of Star Wars with an ethereal feel to it.

bwaarp - Member

and Terrance Malick .........

I'd probably switch off after 30 minutes of watching the sand drift beautifully across the desert planet. No dialogue. No action. Just sand drifting.

But the Coen Brothers would be good. Can we fit Steve Buscemi in as well? And possibly Jeff Bridges reprising the Dude as Obi Wan?

Steve Buscemi

Brilliant! I think he'd make a good emperor! LOL 😆

I'd probably switch off after 30 minutes

That is where the Cohen Brothers come in. Malicks videography in TTRL was simply stunning.

BoardinBob - Member
My cast would be:
Joseph Gordon Levitt as Luke Skywalker
Michael Caine as Obi Wan
Kiera Knightley as Princess Leia
Robert Downey Jr as Han Solo
David Tennant as the voice of C3-PO
Denzel Washington as Lando Calrissian
Gary Oldman as The Emperor
Ian McKellen as the voice of Darth Vader

Are you allowed to recast people, ie Kiera.

Han Solo = Javier Bardem
Luke = Jamie Bell
Yoda = Bjork
Leia = Roxanne McKee
Lando = Paddy Considine

From Ayup yorkshire website:

If Star Wars was set in Barnsley

Chewbacca would look roughly the same except he'd only be about 5ft tall, from Kendray and called Spanner.

He'd have the same amount of body hair but would also have tattoos, would permanently smell of drink and invariably sport either a Barnsley or England top.

Obi-Wan Kenobi would invariably be referred to as Chief or Cocker by his cohorts. People trying to start a fight with him would address him as ****y-Nobby

Darth Vader would referred to as 'Elmit Head' or in moments of stress 'that dome-edded get'

R2D2 would refuse to go out on the streets after 10pm because of the number of drunks who would try to stuff chip papers in his head casing or piss on him. He would also refuse to go near groups of young kids at any time because of the high risk of being spray painted/dumped in front of a speeding train/set on fire.

Although proficient in over 3500 languages C3P0 would still be unable to understand anything anyone from Athersley said. He would regularly get beaten up for being a knacker-faced poof from Sheffield.

The Millenium Falcon would have static strips, tinted windscreens and extra-flared exhaust ports. It would have a Barnsley Chronicle I Love Tarn Army sticker in the back window and a St Georges Cross SUN SUPPORTS OUR BOYS bumper sticker.

Princess Leia would get captured by Darth Vader because it's hard to run very fast when you're wearing 5-inch platform heels and a tiny silver mini-skirt which keeps hiking up over your arse every two steps. And you've been a heavy smoker since you were 6.

The best way to destroy the Death Star would not necessarily be a desperate all out attack. Two easy ways would be to alter its orbit so it passed through Grimethorpe and tell the locals it was full of Cockneys or leave it unattended in Alhambra car park. Or you could convert it into a huge Takeaway.

Lines from the film as they would be uttered in the vernacular:-

Han Solo "I've got a real bad feeling about this" translation: "Am Kackin Missen"

"Bring 'em on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around." "Come right art you bastards Al tek ont lotton yer"

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." "Bugger the mumbo - wot tha needs is a chuffin gret crickit bat"

Darth Vader trying to shoot down Luke Skywalker -"The Force is strong in this one" "Thar allus Laikin abart, theee"

Princess Leia - "You're a little short for a Stormtrooper aren't you?" "Ah dint think they took short-arses in t coppers?"

"This bucket of bolts is never going to get us past that blockade." "We nackered in this peece er crap"

Admiral Motti - "Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader." "You think you're that hard, yer southern get - artside!!"

Obi Wan - "I felt a great disturbance in the Force." It's looking black over Bill's Mother's"

Luke to the Emperor -"Your overconfidence is your weakness." "You think yer really something, dunt yer"

When I first watched Star Wars, Vader was terrifying. I want someone cast to bring some of that menace:

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Vader's comin'

I thought the live action remake that a few Fanbois put together in 2001 was pretty dramatic. I forget the date...

bring back all the original cast, they were fine, just leave frickin ego-maniac Lucas out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nolan to direct 😉

Nolan! A humourless Star Wars would not be good imo.