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Star Wars sequel: Open auditions to be held in UK "According to a casting notice the film-makers are looking to fill two roles. They are a "street smart and strong" orphaned girl in her late teens and a "smart capable" man in his late teens or early 20s."

The article says Mark Hamill got his part through open casting or something similar. Surely one of you guys can act at least as well as him? That shouldn't be too hard.

I guess it could be much worse. They could pillage the casts of all the Disney shows to fill the ranks for Star Wars.


Im sorry, but if I see Selena Gomez using the force...im leaving this planet.

Well she did play a witch so its sortive close ...

But seriously I am with you if this happens....

Cant be worse than the 4th one that was the first one.

Star Wars VII: The Deathly Hallows

first thing that came to my mind from reading the OP.

Nice too see they have the creativity to use some of the most overdone character portraits in movie history though.

The problems with the Prequel Trilogy can pretty much be boiled down to 2 things: The utter lack of a Compelling Everyman Character for The Audience to Relate To and Be Emotionally Invested In, and a lack of anything resembling internal consistency and continuity.

Compelling Everyman Character like both Luke and Han Solo had absolutely no surrogate in the prequels. It certainly wasn't Anniken. It certainly wasn't Qui Gonn. It certainly wasn't Amidala.

It was Nobody. That's a pretty fatal error, and to just toss out such a fundamental, Day One of Screenwriting Class like that and pull it off, one has to be a genius like Kubrick, not a marketing businessman like George. Ugh.

And the consistency and just sheer continuity......why is there the scene towards the end of Phantom Menace when Yoda finally declares Obi-Wan as a Jedi Knight.....when the movie's opening text crawl already clearly states that "2 Jedi Knights" are on their way to 'do something somewhere'. Oops. Ugh. And welcome to Film Flub Notoriety.

These are actually 2 really simple things to avoid.

Writers: Okay so what if we have the Death Star run... No wait, here me out. So we do the trench run but the hero is nine years old and the stakes are much, much lower. Like bargain basement who the **** cares about Naboo lower.

George: I like it but it still seems to serious, can we throw in some cartoony racial stereotype accents for comic relief. Asians, Jews Blacks and the like? Not hip hop blacks mind you, act stupid so whites feel superior blacks.

Writers: Can we ever! Yousa gonna love dis master. The fans are not going to be disgusted with this movie on ever conceivable level at all.


Actually you can't. Padawan is the squire in training, Knight is the standard rank and Masters are the leadership.

Jedi is the collective term, not Knight, that is a rank and only a rank.

Was it Episode I that more or less opened with a lot of dialogue about the politics within the Empire? "Princess Cerise Galette is supposed to succeed Emperor Kuro Zawa, but insidious Minister of the Satrapy Rashoman has a plot with Space Admiral Orang Utan to assassinate her and frame Chancellor Baba Ganoosh. Meanwhile Grand Vizier Tai Chi is en route to the Hidden Fortress in Souvlaki Prime to warn Kuro Zawa about the plot. But he has to pass through dangerous Chai Tea. Jedis, go to Chai Tea and make sure Tai Chi gets through!" Huh?

It was like having to follow an Economist story-- dictated to you-- about an upcoming elections in Afghanistan. What a way to start a new movie trilogy.

With a non-compelling 9 year old who has absolutely no conception of the danger he is in, therefore, neither does the audience......and just saves the day at the end by a sheer accident. Hoo boy.

And the convoluted political yammering, is, after even 5 viewings, utterly incomprehensible. And in light of the obvious continuity mistake pointed out in just the opening screen crawl, those machinations are suspect and most indeed. It's George having a good laugh.

Funny part of Mr. Plinketts review of the film shows two kids about 5 years old sitting in rapt attention at the screen showing that horrifyingly long and boring speech in that senate chamber. Yeah, George, your 'children's films' explanation even falls flat on it's face with that.

It's all just so hard to believe really. Seriously one of the worst films to ever grace the screens.

I have a confession to make: I truly liked it when they finally got around to wiping out all the Jedis in the third movie. That´s how annoying they have become.
Also that ridiculous giraffe-neck guy.... someone please kill me. Or him. Oh, wait....