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[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

I was about to say I don't recall seeing that when my dad took me to see Empire in 1980, then I reread the part about it being for overseas showings. That's an interesting thing I never knew about the original run!

Yeah me too. I'd like to see it at least once. If nothing else, Lucas obviously believed in it and thought it complimented ESB well enough.

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‘Star Wars Episode VII’: Actors Battle for Lead Role

With Adam Driver in line to play the villain in the next “Star Wars,” the next order of business for Disney and Lucasfilm is finding the right Jedi to challenge Driver and the evil empire.

After meeting with several young actors this past year, sources tell Variety that “Downton Abbey” thesp Ed Speleers, “Attack the Block” star John Boyega, Jesse Plemons and theater actors Matthew James Thomas, and Ray Fisher are among the men J.J. Abrams is eyeing for the lead role. Though some insiders warn the search is still ongoing, multiple sources confirm to Variety these actors have moved to the top of the list in recent weeks.

Disney had no comment.

Exact details of the character are vague but the part is believed to be a Jedi apprentice. The original draft by Michael Arndt was said to focus on Han Solo and Princess Leia’s kids, however, Abrams and Kasdan’s recent rewrite reportedly puts their offspring in a supporting role.

Sources also indicate the reason for the delay has to do whether execs and creatives want someone of a different ethnicity from the previous Caucasian leads. Abrams has said on numerous occasions that he wants to have a diversified cast, which is why actors like David Oyewolo and Michael B. Jordan tested early on.

As previously reported, Abrams is expected to surround the less-familiar actor with more recognizable stars for supporting parts, including original “Star Wars” cast members Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.

“Star Wars Episode VII” will begin shooting in the late second quarter or early third quarter in London’s Pinewood Studios.

Produced by Abrams, his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burke and Lucasfilm head honcho Kathleen Kennedy, “Star Wars Episode VII” hits theaters Dec. 18, 2015.

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

My god, Landry is in the hunt for a lead role in Star Wars...signs and wonders.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

That man on right is gorgeous!

EDIT: I meant the man on the left.

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LOL That's something you don't hear everyday.

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Apprently I need to go back to school as I meant to say the one on the left. There is nothing gorgeous about Meth Damon

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Well Tyra certainly couldn't stay away...

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Meh. For me he is mildly attractive at best.

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

Took me a while to figure out where I recognized John Boyega from. He's Moses from Attack the Block, I think I'll be rooting for him. He played a good, strong, silent protagonist in that movie.

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Apprently I need to go back to school as I meant to say the one on the left. There is nothing gorgeous about Meth Damon

So mean and so funny.

Took me a while to figure out where I recognized John Boyega from. He's Moses from Attack the Block, I think I'll be rooting for him. He played a good, strong, silent protagonist in that movie.

If you read the article, even just the highlighted bit, you would have known that.

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Who reads these casting announcements? If there are pictures.

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And I agree. It's just that it diminishes the prophecy even more. Now Anakin will be no more a defeater of Sith than whoever took them down at the end of the Sith Age. Of course, the very existence of the sequels (as noted by others below) will also countermand Lucas' own claim that the movies are all about Anakin.

The prophecy is so vague, at least in part because I don't believe we've ever actually seen it written out. We just know what the Jedi say or interpret it to be. I know Lucas had said the balancing of the force aspect of the prophecy had nothing to do with the number of Sith or Jedi. The bigger question is how or why the force was out of balance to begin with. Was it because the Dark Side had grown too powerful and was overshadowing the abilities of the Light? Was it because the Jedi, like the Guardians, had become too arrogant and rigid in their ways? Both? And then you had Obi-Wan saying several times that Anakin, as the "Chosen One", was supposed to destroy the Sith, though technically Yoda gives them an out when he comments how the prophecy might have been misread. Especially since the prophecy was not supposed to say the "Chosen One" had to be a Jedi at the time he fulfilled it.

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Yeah, I think Yoda was never a fan of the prophecy. Remember in PM he's willing to ignore the fact that Anakin is force-born and not train him.

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Well, Yoda seems willing to accept he may be the chosen one, but he sees enough red flags to make him want to walk away. Anakin being "force-born" was never actually proven, certainly not in the movies and especially not in Phantom Menace, though the hints are there.