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The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the long-gestating rumors that Billy Dee Williams will return to that galaxy far, far away and will reprise his role of Lando Calrissian for next year’s Star Wars: Episode IX!
Williams made his debut as the gambling scoundrel in Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, reprising in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and in countless other Star Wars shows like Star Wars Rebels and games like Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast. He even voiced the character in various Robot Chicken and Family Guy episodes dedicated solely to Star Wars as well as The LEGO Movie. Donald Glover stepped into the role earlier this year to play a younger Lando in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
In Episode IX, Williams joins returning franchise stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver, plus newcomer (and frequent J.J. Abrams collabroator) Keri Russell.
The one idea he floated....why did Palpatine really go into the Unknown Regions.....made me think he could *maybe* be on to a sliver of an idea? Surely it wasn't to just build a fucking THIRD Death Star and a cruiser the size of Delaware, right? Palps cloned himself maybe, and his force essence find its way there? An army of Sith powered by whatever artifacts he found in the UR?
Eh, whatever. It's a theory, and it is Star Wars. I guess. [Reply]
The only way this works is if Snoke was given oversight to the "resurrection/cloning"-process, and simply chose to ignore his masters wishes. He could have re-ordered the system to withhold any cloning activity unless or until he was killed or died.
Palpatine could have possibly cloned his "essence" and had it on standby in case of his demise, but there's nothing in canon to imply that he had that level of mastery over the force. In past examples of cloning and essence transfer, the transferring party usually had to be present though.
I don't like it for several reasons:
1) Anything that fucks with the OT should be off-limits. I'd like to think that Disney has learned their lesson on this, but probably not.
2) If you bring Palpatine back, you have to redeem Ren or we just end up with another case of perpetual apprenticeship like Anakin/Vader; always the apprentice, never the master. And if you do that, you have to make Kylo Ren both embrace and then turn against Palpatine in the span of one movie, and that would be complete shit.
OR, we end up with ANOTHER rebellion vs. empire scenario, and the first 3 films of the OT become pointless.
So, the Palpatine Plan for Epi 9 doesn't hold water for me. [Reply]
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For some time I’ve been laying out how how I think the Sequel Trilogy will actually end with Rey and Kylo Ren as the champions of the light and dark sides respectively.
In addition, Episode IX will not be the end of the First Order/Resistance conflict, but the start of a much larger civil war.
Further, this story will be told in parallel with that of Luke, Leia and Han following Endor.
TLJ trailer and rumors had me liking the idea of "grey jedi" finding a way to balance good and bad and perhaps replacing the jedi-sith extremes. I thought it would be a fresh new direction and a natural evolution after defeating the empire.
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J.J. Abrams may be bringing the new sequel trilogy to its conclusion with the upcoming Star Wars: Episode 9, but we’ll be visiting a galaxy far, far away for a long time yet.
Disney and Lucasfilm have announced a series of new Star Wars movies from a duo with plenty of experience transporting audiences to bold and fantastical worlds: Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
So if you set up VII-IX as just an origin story for Kylo and Rey and end it with a cliffhanger...suddenly their characters get a lot more interesting.
Officer: "Your thrift store coat and battle-damaged helmet are very intimidating sir. At which victory of your might did your helmet earn its scaaahs"?
