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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
Not a bad article and I agree with most of it. He sort of lost me here, though:
"That’s because Kennedy had two choices upon being granted the helm of the Star Wars universe: (1) fast-forward fifty years, beyond the original characters, and reboot, losing the nostalgia of the original characters but gaining freshness; (2) recast the original characters and pick up where Return of the Jedi left off. Instead, in fully risk averse fashion, she chose door (3): leech off the nostalgia while introducing new characters a few years in the future. "
What? Why would #1 be one of the two only options? 50 years forward, like twice as long as between the first two trilogies? Why? #2, the opposite -- recast the original characters and pick up where Return of the Jedi left off... and have no gap at all between trilogies? Weird!
#3 was the soundest of the doors... she just needed to not do a remake and actually have at least a very basic plan for the trilogy, not made up on the fly.
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Agreed. #3 was a good plan, it has just been very poorly executed.
And everybody knew from Day One that Han Solo would be killed off... Harrison Ford wanted him dead in
Return of the Jedi, how do you think Star Wars talked the man into returning to the series?
