Star Wars Can’t Recast Classic Characters, Says Kathleen Kennedy

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Kathleen Kennedy says Star Wars has learned it “cast” recast classic characters with new actors.

Placing the blame on the movie’s failure on the idea of attempting to recast a character as iconic as Han Solo with a young actor — with poor Alden Ehrenreich trying to sub in for Harrison Ford — Kennedy said “there should be moments along the way when you learn things. Now it does seem so abundantly clear that we can’t do that.” That meaning recasting legacy characters.How long that dictum lasts remains to be seen, but it’s an interesting comment for a few reasons.

Yes, Lucasfilm brought back Mark Hamill instead of hiring a lookalike when they wanted to feature Luke Skywalker on with Ewan McGregor, who was essentially the Alden Ehrenreich of his day when he replaced Alec Guinness as the young Obi-Wan in the Of course, people loved McGregor in the role from early on and Ehrenreich’s Han Solo was much less warmly received.

 

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Such a horrible stance for them to take. A sign of an inflated ego perhaps. It's a shame they will have to cancel Obi-Wan as they couldn't get Sir Alec Guinness.

He was great in Solo

The only reason Solo lost money was firing the first director and reshooting the whole thing.

shaded_lenz I learned a long time ago we need a new head of Lucasfilm.

Not why it failed!

…don’t think they did

The one time they should have just said 'the fans were wrong'. lol.

wrong answer, Disney how about 'don't let 2 directors split-direct the movie'

Because it worked out so badly for Ewan McGregor...I just want my Sebastian Stan 'luke Skywalker' series

Except they can. Alden was great as Solo

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