I love me some good Star Wars rumor material and the like. Having missed out on the reporting fun back during the prequels, the news of new Star Wars coming in 2015 now has it so that we can talk about it lots and that inner fan from youth gets to get really, really excited. With the new features in the works and apparent word that both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are completely on board for returning to the franchise in some form when Star Wars: Episode VII hits in 2015, everyone has long figured that Harrison Ford would opt out completely. He’s spent years talking meagerly about how he hated the experience, all the blue screens to work with and the potential for type-casting that he did manage to avoid. With his longstanding grudge against how Blade Runner worked as well, it’s no surprise that he was excited to learn that Han Solo was to be killed in Return of the Jedi, only to learn it wouldn’t happen because his action figure sold far more than anyone else’s. You don’t scramble all your golden goose eggs.
But now word comes via EW that he is open to the idea, having phoned it in for Cowboy’s & Aliens and having a key role in the upcoming Ender’s Game science fiction movie due out next year. There’s no details on what’s involved but the general idea is script approval for him, which could be problematic considering how invested he was in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and had script approval for that as well. Still, the chance for the original trio to get back together in some form for one more outing has the potential for a lot of awesomeness.
Interestingly, there’s also a report out of Collider that one of the reasons that Matthew Vaughn may have dropped out of X-Men: Days of Future Past is to try and snag the director’s chair for this feature. Once it was known that new features were coming and that George Lucas wasn’t going to direct them, it was a given that a variety of talent is going to make a bid not only for the main trilogy but also trying to pitch other ideas as well. Vaughn supposedly left to go work on Secret Service for Mark Millar and Fox, but it would be an interesting choice to have the man behind X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass and Stardust behind the film.
