Actors. An Australian DJ (?!?) is claiming that John Noble will be playing the villain in Episode VII. You probably know Noble as Fringe’s Walter Bishop, or from Lord of the Rings, where he played Denethor, perhaps Middle-Earth’s least stable father figure. Like Walter Bishop, I have my skeptic face on.
Abrams alumni Keri Russell would be down for Star Wars, because once again, who’s going to say they don’t want to be in Star Wars?
And finally, Ewan McGregor doesn’t know anything about the new movies, but it seems like he’s still game. He’ll be talking about his new film, Jack and the Giant Slayer, on Ellen this Friday.
The once and future directors. HuffPo’s Mike Ryan has a great article exploring the Star Wars directors thus far. And at the Star Wars Blog, Bonnie Burton has the relevant quotes from her past interviews with J.J. Abrams.
Solo, solo. Hollywood.com’s Christian Blauvelt talks about casting (and writing) a younger Han Solo with Scoundrels author Timothy Zahn. Since the conversation naturally turns to casting Thrawn, Zahn spoke a bit more about casting his characters back on January’s book tour for Scoundrels.
Video. J.J. Abrams talks about Star Wars, Star Trek and the mystery box in a TED Talk from 2007. (via)
Money matters. George Lucas has filed to cash out his Disney stock – the 37,076,679 shares that were half the purchase price for Lucasfilm. (Note: The move doesn’t mean he has to or even will sell immediately, just that he can.) In any case, it was announced early on that Lucas would donate the company’s purchase price to fund “educational issues.”
Lists. Empire has nine characters who deserve a spin-off. They’re all dudes, naturally, but step over to Alyssa Rosenberg’s blog for five women who should be in Episode VII.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Stooge // Feb 7, 2013 at 9:37 am
Nice list there at the end. I can honestly think of only one person who I’d really like to see in a spinoff, and that’s Padme.
2 Nancy K // Feb 7, 2013 at 9:19 pm
I was so glad I got to see Kershner at Celebration IV. He was a joy to listen to.
3 George Lucas is not selling his Disney stock // Feb 13, 2013 at 9:35 am
[...] George Lucas registered for the ability to cash out his Disney stock last week, a Lucasfilm rep told The Bearded Trio he has no plans to do [...]
4 Lucas not Cashing out Disney Stock | Tosche Station // Feb 13, 2013 at 10:57 am
[...] week, George Lucas registered for the ability to cash out his Disney stock in order to build Scrooge McDuck’s Moneybin. Or use it for philanthropic efforts, one of the [...]
5 John Noble on Star Wars rumors: “I’d love to.” // Feb 18, 2013 at 1:56 pm
[...] John Noble has been rumored to be taking a part in Episode VII, But he knows about as much about it as we do, he tells fans at the Grand Slam Sci-Fi Show. “I’d like them too,” he says, but there’s no truth to it (via) [...]
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