Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4bn, new Star Wars movie in 2015

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Quote from: The Larch on April 29, 2014, 01:43:48 PM
Von Sidow *has* to play a baddie. He's a poor man's Christopher Lee anyway, and Lee has already been in Star Wars and killed off.  :lol:

Did you just call Ming the Merciless the poor man's anything? :angry:
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Quote from: Ideologue on April 29, 2014, 06:38:30 PM
Quote from: The Larch on April 29, 2014, 01:43:48 PM
Von Sidow *has* to play a baddie. He's a poor man's Christopher Lee anyway, and Lee has already been in Star Wars and killed off.  :lol:

Did you just call Ming the Merciless the poor man's anything? :angry:

Von Sydow has made lots and lots of crap over the years, including some dreadful Italian fantasy TV movies where he specialized in cheesy scenary chewing baddies. A poor man's Christopher Lee he is.

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Quote from: The Larch on April 30, 2014, 06:30:11 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 29, 2014, 06:38:30 PM
Quote from: The Larch on April 29, 2014, 01:43:48 PM
Von Sidow *has* to play a baddie. He's a poor man's Christopher Lee anyway, and Lee has already been in Star Wars and killed off.  :lol:

Did you just call Ming the Merciless the poor man's anything? :angry:

Von Sydow has made lots and lots of crap over the years, including some dreadful Italian fantasy TV movies where he specialized in cheesy scenary chewing baddies. A poor man's Christopher Lee he is.

Well, so did Peter Cushing when he was cast in the first one. You can't make a Star Wars film without some washed-up B-film actor playing a villain, anyway.

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Quote from: Ideologue on April 29, 2014, 06:38:30 PM
Did you just call Ming the Merciless the poor man's anything? :angry:

Seriously.  Not to mention Brewmeister Smith.
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Quote from: Sheilbh on April 30, 2014, 08:09:29 AM
Saw an interview with Dave Prowse today, barely concealed rage.

In what sense? For not being in the cast? :huh:

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Quote from: celedhring on April 30, 2014, 08:15:01 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 30, 2014, 08:09:29 AM
Saw an interview with Dave Prowse today, barely concealed rage.

In what sense? For not being in the cast? :huh:

I think he always felt snubbed that Lucas chose a different actor to play unmasked Vader for Return of the Jedi. And that he was never quite given proper credit for his part in creating Vader as a character.
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The Larch

He also didn't know about James Earl Jones being Vader's voice until he saw the film during its opening.

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He even had a voice over as the Green Cross Code man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUBMBi_lp4

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Quote from: The Larch on April 30, 2014, 06:30:11 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 29, 2014, 06:38:30 PM
Quote from: The Larch on April 29, 2014, 01:43:48 PM
Von Sidow *has* to play a baddie. He's a poor man's Christopher Lee anyway, and Lee has already been in Star Wars and killed off.  :lol:

Did you just call Ming the Merciless the poor man's anything? :angry:

Von Sydow has made lots and lots of crap over the years, including some dreadful Italian fantasy TV movies where he specialized in cheesy scenary chewing baddies. A poor man's Christopher Lee he is.

Max von Sydow a poor man's Christopher Lee. :lol:

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Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 29, 2014, 01:09:23 PM
Lawrence Kasdan is writing it? Oh that's the best news I've seen about this so far.

No fucking shit.  Maybe he can save it from Lucas.

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Quote from: Syt on April 30, 2014, 08:32:23 AM
I think he always felt snubbed that Lucas chose a different actor to play unmasked Vader for Return of the Jedi. And that he was never quite given proper credit for his part in creating Vader as a character.

He has a point there I think.
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