Lucas made another three Star Wars films between 1999 and 2005.
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While you may have thought Disney and Lucasfilm have already set their sights on the actor who will be playing a young Han Solo in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 2018 Star Wars Anthology movie, a new report reveals that over 2500 actors have so far met or sent in audition tapes.
The scene traditionally depicted a held-up Han Solo sneakily drawing his blaster under the table and proactively shooting Greedo.
More than 2,500 actors between the ages of 18 and 32 have thrown their names in the hat for the part, which was originally played by Harrison Ford in the first Star Wars trilogy and the new film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
71 year old Lucas sold the franchise to Disney just over three years ago for $4 billion, and told The Washington Post in a new interview that he had no involvement whatsoever with the seventh instalment, billed as the first of three sequel stories to the much-loved originals. “When you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people (first) – you let them have the first shot”.
“There is no such thing as working over someone’s shoulder You’re either the dictator or you’re not I knew that I couldn’t be involved”, he said. “It’s a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to”. Those fans always saw Han more as a duplicitous, lovably amoral pirate with a heart of gold rather than a properly polite cowboy. In essence, it is generally believed that Lucas unnecessarily nerfed everyone’s favorite scruffy-looking nerf-herder. “I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down”.
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When the interview was conducted – apparently in mid-November – Lucas said that he hadn’t yet seen The Force Awakens.
