Star Wars 7 shit talk

crazy people

"I swear I'll change, baby. Just take me back. No more Jar Jars, I promise."

Ford was 35 or so when they shot SW

Ansel Elgort
Jack Reynor
Logan Lerman
Blake Jenner
None of these names meant anything to me, after a skirt through IMDB they all seem pretty much diametrically opposed to Harrison Ford. Like, these all seem Zack Efron types. Maybe I'm being hastily judgemental here.
Scott Eastwood
Don't really know him either, except that I just watched Diablo; he was bad(meaningbad) in it.
Miles Teller
Actually quite like him, cannae really see him as Han Solo though.
Emory Cohen
He's good, again not convinced he'd fit the role.
Dave Franco
PLEASE GOD NO.

No idea who I would cast honestly, if that's the age bracket we're going for. Need someone reasonably scuzzy.

Michael Angarano maybe. But no one seems to rate him as much as me.

If I could just throw out a casting suggestion of my own real quick

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01864/fred-figglehorn_1864340c.jpg

agree with the Big Trouble in LIttle China angle discussed here

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/686618817515139072

yeah if they have to make this film, a light, fun, portent-free adventure/heist/caper/scrape picture is pretty much the only way to do it. i mean the whole thing w his character arc in star wars is that anything set before that *can't* be him doing anything especially heroic or saving the galaxy from the sith or whatever. just like, some situation han solo gets into. dunno how much movie you can really get out of a guy starting an asshole and staying an asshole though. feels like they'll either screw star wars by making him a hero, or doing some dumb thing like he starts out with hopes and dreams but the events of the movie (likely to include death of love interest or her ending up w someone else) lead him to adopt his tough cynical demeanor (and in the last scene, the local smuggler bandit he's been battling says 'you got moxie, kid,' and hands him a certain familiar jacket....)....

really though, i feel like 'ant man' or sth like that is more likely to be the template in tone/feel than BTILC sadly. but let's not kid ourselves, this doesn't exactly promise to be a great star wars movie. thinking of RLM's observation near the end of the ROTS review that han solo not being ruined (''we never had to have THAT scene. you know the one.'') was one of the few things you could be glad about from the prequels.

I want to see a Han Solo film set between ESB and ROTJ.

Han was in Nam. It's about the Nam years.

I'm guessing the Kessel Run will figure prominently. As will meeting Chewie and winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando. All squeezed into a two-day span.

If it goes that way I will hate this world forever.

Killer Mike as Han, El-P as Chewie

RUN THE KESSEL

hell yes

lol

Emory Cohen
He's good, again not convinced he'd fit the role.

he'd fit the role all right

Han was in Nam. It's about the Nam years.

http://thephilter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Apocalypse-Now-Colonel-Lucas-8.jpg

I want to see a Han Solo film set between ESB and ROTJ.

^^^

maybe a Bresson or Warhol type of thing

30 minute static shot of frozen Han in a warehouse somewhere

picturing more of a bounty hunter farce, as they get stoned and keep screwing up, losing the han slab, ohhh man jabba's gonna FREAK! careening through the kessel run recklessly, an uptight imperial commander constantly trying to catch up with them despite his own bungling assistants. ashton kutcher in a winking cameo as frozen-carbonite han, not revealed until the last scene: dude, where's my carbonite?!

Weekend at Han's

Weekend At Jabba's

xpost!!!

that would be great - even less competent, cocksure smugglers hoping that by propping up carbonite han in badly-lit rooms they, too, can talk their way out of sticky situations, evade their creditors, and save the orphanage.

so basically the Blues Brothers.

would watch, but only if our leads are actually the Max Rebo Band

The short story about the OG cantina band was a wacky caper IIRC, so not without precedent.

han is a great character but i'm sure they're going to fuck this up completely

Mostly because Han basically is Harrison Ford.

hmmm, reminds me of the sad attempt to build up indy's kid as a possible successor in 'crystal skull.' wait that's it, they should get shia labeouf

In the same way that Indiana Jones wouldn't have been as successful or had the same resonance with Tom Selleck in the role, it's fair to say that Ford is largely responsible for the popularity of Han Solo. To the extent of being arguably the most irreplaceable member of the original cast (aside from maybe James Earl Jones's vo). So, yeah, a young Han Solo film feels a bit like a fool's errand.

sounds like the surest thing since those 4 other guys who played Inspector Clouseau.

http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/1227-3.jpg
"Han belongs in a museum!"

It's weird to think that there was a time where Harrison Ford was just a working stiff actor doing bit parts in Coppola movies and not embodying this incredibly iconic characters.

It's weirder to think of some other great Harrison Ford roles that no one thinks of. Like "The Mosquito Coast" or "Witness." Or "Frantic."

he got an Oscar nod for Witness!

More importantly, he's good in it! And "Mosquito Coast," and "Frantic."

Witness was his breakout from the genre box; his other straight romantic dramas before it tanked.

Was the next one Working Girl? did Frantic succeed at the b.o.? i know Mosquito died.

Oooh, forgot about him in "Working Girl." I wish he had done more funny supporting character stuff.

i remember admiring Mosquito Coast while noting he'd been a li'l nicied up from the Theroux novel, and that River Phoernix was already a better actor. Never saw the Polanski.

He's good in the Frisco Kid IIRC.

He really fell apart after Working Girl (Fugitive excepted).

I love Mosquito Coast. River Phoenix was the best in movies where he had troubled parents.

or was gettin paid for a beej in the first scene.

Or that, yes.

You put the gun down you stupid asshole, Paul, guns down!
*oscar nod*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdW1BlDtcyU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Rqx9TvtlM

Wow, forgot about "The Fugitive." He's great in that.

i actually thought ford was good in the last indiana jones movie, it's everything around him that was terrible.

also K-19 is a super effective and kind of weird and totally depressing movie and spotty accent aside Ford is great.

clear and present danger is great too! he's got that 'how dare you sir!' scene which is sort of the apex of latter day ford shouting at people moments. and the action scenes in it are A+.