Friday, January 8, 2016

Would Star Wars 7 end differently if George Lucas had written the script?

SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen “Star Wars 7”  do not read any further.

Would Star Wars 7 end differently if George Lucas had written the script?  At least, Han wouldn't have been killed by his son.  

Of course, when Disney bought Lucasfilm, they were only thinking of making more money.  With Harrison Ford already getting a paycheque around $20 million or may be more to reprise his role as Han Solo, and Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher each getting a pay in the low seven figure range, that means their profit will be quite slim unless it turns into a huge box office success.  That's why Harrison Ford's Han Solo got to die in the first sequel trilogy, ensuring he will have no part in the second and third sequels.  It's all money talk!  I am sure George Lucas must have made a few suggestions to Disney, one of them must be keeping his heroes alive, including Han Solo, but Disney did not use his ideas!  Why?  Money, of course!

Also, it doesn't make sense that the son of Leia and Han would turn to the dark side and kill his father.  If anyone would turn to the dark side, it would make sense that would be Luke Skywalker's son.  After all, it's been a Skywalker who had turned to the dark side in the past!  Okay, the marriage of Leia and Han broke down, just like most marriages, but given their personality, their son couldn't have turned out to be such a brat, so cruel and heartless!  Neither Leia nor Han was a cold blooded killer, so their son Ren couldn't have turned out to be that bad!

I think J. J. Abrams would have a lot of explaining to do in the sequel that follows!  What exactly went wrong!  Here I would like to pick on Abrams...  What an awful scene when Leia saw Han again, after, God knows, how many years!  It was supposed to be a very moving scene, but it was quick and hardly touching!  There was no chemistry between the two, no compassion of any kind, no feelings, no agreement or disagreement.  Just NOTHING!  They vaguely talked about their son and she asked Han to bring him home, that's all!   I was very disappointed.  I feel there should be more interaction between these two actors...more talk, more scenes together!  Abrams must be taking his Mission Impossible speed here...no wasting of time...jumping quickly from one action scene to another!

Also, J J Abrams really isn't quite creative in this movie!  The battle scenes were old...we'd seen them all before in Star Wars 6...the TIE-Fighters, the X-wing Fighters.  Except...I like the Millennium Falcon and love to see it again!  The Starkiller Base or the white ball didn't look intimidating enough as the Death Star in the Star Wars prequels!
However, perhaps Disney sees the great profit they are making now, with its global bow at a record $1.5 billion as of January 6, 2016, they may reconsider bringing Harrison Ford back in the next sequel.  We all know that in science fiction movies, they can always revive dead characters.  And Harrison Ford can almost always guarantee box office success and great profits!  Remember, Han Solo was revived once in Star Wars 6, The Return Of The Jedi.  And in Star Wars 7, Han's body was never found!  

I will put in a petition to Walt Disney Studios to revive Han Solo for the sequel!!!  I hope you will do the same too! 

After all, Disney, as a major movie maker for children's movies, cannot teach kids to kill their father!

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