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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.
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I read somewhere the actress that played Rose took an absolute beating on social media after TLJ, so she told them she wasn't going to be in IX. That's not really fair to her - it wasn't her fault they wrote her character so badly and put her in a more awkward and out of place love story than Anakin and Padme rolling around in the wheat on Naboo.
Sweet images, tho. I like Lando and the gang in the Falcon, and that's a cool pic of Kylo and Rey fighting on the husk of the Death Star II.
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I read somewhere the actress that played Rose took an absolute beating on social media after TLJ, so she told them she wasn't going to be in IX. That's not really fair to her - it wasn't her fault they wrote her character so badly and put her in a more awkward and out of place love story than Anakin and Padme rolling around in the wheat on Naboo.
Sweet images, tho. I like Lando and the gang in the Falcon, and that's a cool pic of Kylo and Rey fighting on the husk of the Death Star II.
I thought she was going to be in this movie? She is listed in imdb and was at the Star Wars events recently. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I read somewhere the actress that played Rose took an absolute beating on social media after TLJ, so she told them she wasn't going to be in IX. That's not really fair to her - it wasn't her fault they wrote her character so badly and put her in a more awkward and out of place love story than Anakin and Padme rolling around in the wheat on Naboo.
And it isn't Talia Shire's fault that Adrian was such an irredeemable pain in the ass in the Rocky Franchise.
I still did an actual fist pump when we realized that she'd been killed off in Rocky Balboa.
It may not be her fault that everything about Rose sucked, but it was more her fault than it was mine. So I'd have still been awfully pleased to see that character vaporized offscreen and spoken of for only in a single line of mocking dialogue and then never referenced again. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
And it isn't Talia Shire's fault that Adrian was such an irredeemable pain in the ass in the Rocky Franchise.
I still did an actual fist pump when we realized that she'd been killed off in Rocky Balboa.
It may not be her fault that everything about Rose sucked, but it was more her fault than it was mine. So I'd have still been awfully pleased to see that character vaporized offscreen and spoken of for only in a single line of mocking dialogue and then never referenced again.
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The Falcon was amazing. Some reporter referred to it as a “religious experience” and I can't think of a better way to put it.
When you’re in the Falcon, it looks amazing, and the controls FEEL real. It always get like I was doing something.
And you feel a comradery with your flight group, even if they crashed your ship and you yelled at them to “listen to Hondo and go the fuck right.”
It felt like I was in the Falcon. And it was amazing. But for the first time it felt like I wasn’t riding a Disneyland ride, but I genuinely was in control of my Star Wars experience.
Plus I scored higher than anyone, so...
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it’s better than The Wizarding world. Hands down. It’s a cooler property, building a lightsaber far and above beats finding a wand, and frankly, butter beer can get tiring. The different drinks they have, and wealth of lore they’re pulling from make this a perfect land.
It’s as close as you can get to having a religious experience, coming face to face with a world you only ever watched in movies/tv or read about in books.
It’s phenomenal.
Also, no surprise, but John Williams' score is omnipresent. [Reply]
