George Lucas to new ‘Star Wars’ film: I’m your divorced father

Disney Parks fans are surely familiar with Star Tours – and now the ride has been updated with characters and adventures from The Force Awakens. I thought I was gonna have a panic attack on the first day. “I do think they would go toward the Japanese”, she said.

But 35 years ago, that was the moment – unbelievably – we were about to double the amount of raw material from on high with a whole new Star Wars movie.

Despite the presence of powerful female characters such as Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) and now The Force Awakens headliner Rey (Daisy Ridley), the writers and directors on all the Star Wars films – both past and future – have been a veritable sausage party. In the 1977 theatrical version of Star Wars, Han fires before Greedo gets the chance to shoot at Han.

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It seems the new torchbearers of the Star Wars flame do not necessarily agree. In a universe where you can travel at hyperspeed, limbs get replaced with extraordinary technology and a clone army is created from a single New Zealand actor, the concept Padme dies from sadness makes no sense. Watching the Star Wars saga in such order will entirely skip Episode I, which is considered by many fans and critiques as an epic failure with bad scripts, disgusting special effects and basically irrelevant to the Star Wars story. “Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn’t like it. And then I took it off. Backstage”.

R2-D2 (L) and BB-8 attend Star Wars Celebration 2015 on April 16, 2015 in Anaheim, California. He used to look like the blond-haired Christensen and was a Jedi, which is a good knight who uses the metaphysical power of the Force to guard justice in the galaxy, but eventually he turned to the Dark Side. Man, imagine. But I also know if he doesn’t outdo the already done, maybe we’ll collectively realize it’s kind of a tough job to ignite the original magic, seven rounds, four decades and yet another giant space orb in. Alternatively your illustrations could celebrate the return of a beloved character or salute a new recruit (I’m looking at you BB-8).