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Star Wars’ reluctance to recast Luke and Leia is holding the franchise back (www.gamesradar.com)
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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.

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[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They tried to do this. That was the whole sequel trilogy. Except instead of growing the new cast they smashed everything that existed before and made everyone hate the entire series.