It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.
Hard disagree. We’ve seen enough of these characters. They’ve told their stories. It’s time for new stories rather than just retreading the same ones over and over.
The strongest shows to come out of the franchise lately have focused on new/and or minor characters — like Rogue One, Mandalorian, and Andor.
Maybe we can write some new cannon that doesn’t suck. Nah let’s just make Chris Pratt play Luke, everyone loves Chris Pratt.
I would rather someone who is a little less known and doesn’t already have multiple major pop culture characters.
You have twisted my arm, but I’ll do it.
The guy they got to play Luke in Boba Fett looked like a perfect replacement for Mark already even without the deepfake stuff on top.
Yep that’s it. That is the one reason Star Wars is being held back.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Bake em away, toys.
I really don’t think recasting is what’s holding Star Wars back - it’s the adherence to being strictly pre-Sequel Trilogy for anything new now.
Give us something new, either from the High Republic era and start building that up or something post-Sequels.
Studio executives would rather rehash the same story.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away there was only one family and like a dozen planets that are worth telling stories about.
Lets just move on to actually new stories, yeah? Let Luke and Leia rest for a bit its been like almost 50 years.
I’ve been saying this for years. Let some young, promising actors take the characters and grow out from the original cast’s shadows.
I do think it odd the author did not mention Alden Ehrenreich’s take on Han. He didn’t quite measure up to Harrison Ford, but that’s a tall task and I wouldn’t hate seeing him get another shot at the character.
They tried to do this. That was the whole sequel trilogy. Except instead of growing the new cast they smashed everything that existed before and made everyone hate the entire series.
Every time I go rewatch Solo I think man you know what, this IS Han Solo. Sure he has some shit lines and writing but that’s not the actors fault
Hope solo…
