It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.
Hard disagree. We’ve seen enough of these characters. They’ve told their stories. It’s time for new stories rather than just retreading the same ones over and over.
The strongest shows to come out of the franchise lately have focused on new/and or minor characters — like Rogue One, Mandalorian, and Andor.
How about we explore literally any group of years, from 20,000 BBY to 100 ABY, and finally stop writing more content for the Skywalker saga?
No, it isn’t. Three shit tier sequel movies and the killing of Expanded material are what fucked the franchise
Maybe we can write some new cannon that doesn’t suck. Nah let’s just make Chris Pratt play Luke, everyone loves Chris Pratt.
I would rather someone who is a little less known and doesn’t already have multiple major pop culture characters.
I really don’t think recasting is what’s holding Star Wars back - it’s the adherence to being strictly pre-Sequel Trilogy for anything new now.
Give us something new, either from the High Republic era and start building that up or something post-Sequels.
