Sporting sporadic changes such as the addition of some nascent CGI elements, Lucas famously re-edited the Cantina confrontation in A New Hope between Harrison Ford’s Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt’s debt collector, Greedo. “It’s a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to”. In an interview with The Washington Post, Lucas says Han Solo shooting Greedo in cold blood runs counter to what his principles should be. But it’s unlikely to put the matter to bed.
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By most accounts, the “Han shot first” camp seem to be a very vocal majority in the controversy.
Ford had been reading the part of Solo in auditions as a help to Lucas during the casting process, but ended up proving himself worthy to play the part in earnest.
The Harrison Ford portion of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens media tour rolled through The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night, hours after Ford appeared on Good Morning America.
Lucas reportedly has no access to the Internet, no Facebook account, no Twitter or even an e-mail. That didnt happen. And thank God no one listened to me! Make sure to read the full interview in the January issue of GQ, on sale Monday!
And to do that would never work, so I said ‘I’m going to get divorced.’…I knew that I couldn’t be involved. “You’re either the dictator or you’re not”. The movie isn’t due to shoot until January 2017 for a May 25, 2018, release, so they have plenty of time to make a choice.
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I mean, he was hardly going to say “it’s trash, see anything except this movie”, but his glowing review is encouraging nonetheless. It would probably ruin a vision – J.J.
