Star Wars Rumors: Matthew Vaughn may direct, Harrison Ford may return

November 6, 2012 by | 2 Comments

ford stars wars Image There has been a lot of speculation about the upcoming third Star Wars trilogy, and now we have a bit more, fresh from the rumor mill. On Monday Collider.com reported that sources told them Matthew Vaughn would direct Episode VII, however, Collider also emphasized that these rumors were still unconfirmed. The second rumor comes from EW.com, which has reported that Ford is open to the idea of returning as the legendary Han Solo.

Matthew Vaughn’s credits include; Kick-Ass, Stardust and most recently X-Men First Class. Recently however Vaughn dropped out of directing the sequel to his highly successful X-Men film, with Bryan Singer returning to the franchise. It now seems that Vaughn’s decision was based on the understanding that he would instead be directing Episode VII.

Harrison Ford has reportedly said that he is willing to return to Star War, but only under the right circumstances. It wasn’t all that long ago that Ford returned to another iconic role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, however the situation is a bit different with this one. Ford seems to genuinely enjoy playing Indy, however the same can’t be said about Solo. Ford’s famously hates Star Wars, in fact he almost did not even come back for Return of the Jedi. Even once he was on board for Jedi he strongly pushed for his character to die at the end of the film. With that in mind, perhaps the “right circumstances” are a death scene for the smuggler in the next trilogy.

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  • Yetti Gold

    Dear Disney and LucasFilm,

    Congratulations! You now possess the power of the force and with it comes a great deal of responsibility. So here’s what you’re going to do:

    STEP 1 – you’re going to set the new films (Episode 7, 8 and 9) 30 years after episode 6 (Jedi) and you’re going to have the FULL original cast back playing themselves as older people. DID YOU HEAR ME? You are going to cast Harrison Ford as Han Freaking solo, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Leia, Billy Dee Williams as Lando and even Denis Lawson back as Wedge Antilles. HERE’S THE CATCH: THEY DON’T HAVE TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTERS. They are older now and you can use them as side characters revolving around NEW lead characters. We don’t care what new characters take over leading roles but you HAVE to bring back the old cast for this all to be LEGIT and to come FULL circle. PLEASE don’t cast new actors in these roles and don’t CGI faces to make them look like the actors 30 years ago (Like in Tron Legacy) PLEASE!!! You can even kill them off in the first scene, just don’t replace them.

    STEP 2 – DON’T LISTEN TO ANYTHING GEORGE LUCAS SAYS! You paid him $4 Billion so tell him to shut up take his money and go make Radioland Murders Part 2! Put somebody in charge of directing who knows what we want. WE WANT EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ON CRACK. That means ACTING, ACTING, ACTING, ACTING, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, DRAMA, DEATH!!!!!

    STEP 3 – Whatever you did to make AVENGERS as good as it was, do the same for STAR WARS! I feel the force is strong with you and your company can pull this off. The prequels were the worst films EVER MADE! They showed us just how evil the dark side of the force can be when it seduced George Lucas and took over his ability to distinguish right from wrong! Please redeem the Star Wars Universe. DO OR DO NOT…THERE IS NO TRY

    Sincerely,

    Geeks

    • So lo

      heck yes