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Liam Neeson wants to appear in a Star Wars spinoff film as Qui-Gon Jinn
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Gentleman Jack
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I think you're overstating the amount of work it would take to de-age Neeson to his 20 years younger self.
SatoAilDarko
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Honestly dude killed it in that role. Loved his performance.
Winterfang
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Is nice to want things.
I think you're overstating the amount of work it would take to de-age Neeson to his 20 years younger self.
I think he could get away with playing Episode 1 Qui-Gon again. But going younger than that would be a stretch.
Because you don't promote your own TV series by prefacing it with "This show actually doesn't matter!"
Cheebo said:
I know what they said. What I'm saying is that no one at that studio is going to realistically say, "Well, having Liam Neeson in a new movie would be cool, but unfortunately we can't do it because Clone Wars already said he's just a voice."
If the movies themselves can be retconned, then there's not going to be anything "immovable" about a tangential cartoon series either.
TangoAlphaLima
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Help us, Gary Whitta, you're our only hope...
Shanks D Zoro
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I would be pissed off too if I had to raise Luke for 20 years, kid is an ungrateful brat. Didn't even want to work one more harvest, that Biggs corrupting him.
I think it is too dangerous for him to go off on adventures. yoda is one of the most powerful jedi ever and he just has to go into hiding. For me, an Obi Wan story line would feel kinda force.
Escape Goat
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The less time spent referencing the prequels the better off the movie will be
The show had ended by that point. It was full steam ahead on the Rebels series already.
Not to mention they had books and comics coming out to promote but they said those were non-canon anyway. It had nothing to do with that. It was about what was determined to be canon. Which was they decided to scrap everything unless it directly came from George Lucas and use that as their base going forward.
A Link to the Past
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Episode I prequel starring Liam Neeson and Christopher Lee thank you
I think I'd be okay with it. I kind of like the idea that there could have been one or two attempts to either kill Luke or expose him to the Empire in-between the trilogies that the Skywalkers never knew about because Obi-Wan kept them safe.
2003 Clone Wars is better.
Christopher Lee playing a younger Dooku? His first appearance (in a movie filmed 15 years ago) took place 10 years after Qui-Gon died. Lee (who is no spring chicken) would in theory have to play himself 25 years younger minimum than he is today in that scenario.
I loved it but that has been wiped away pretty blatantly. They even took the dvds of it out of print years ago.
Dirtyshubb
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Im really fed up with these news stories, they are always portrayed as So and so specifically asks for this certain role when it 99% of the time is the reporter asking the question and them saying Yeah, I wouldnt mind doing that I suppose.
Jason Frost
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Wait, he is 62 years old?
Wow, I thought he was only near the end of his forties or mid fifties.
Wow, I thought he was only near the end of his forties or mid fifties.
He was the best thing of the prequels but I don't see the reason why he needs to be in the new movies. It's kind of shoe horning him in there needlessly unless he takes on the whole Obi Wan role and even then it seems forced. (HA!)
Still the man needs to do other movies besides the Taken roles he's been getting.
Still the man needs to do other movies besides the Taken roles he's been getting.
lol, I totally thought this as well
I love Liam, but the guy has been typecast for a while now
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Shanks D Zoro
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I would like that, could see Dooku being converted to the dark side.
I would hope any Qui Gon jin film would end with him being summoned to the council to take on his new apprentice.
I think I'd be okay with it. I kind of like the idea that there could have been one or two attempts to either kill Luke or expose him to the Empire in-between the trilogies that the Skywalkers never knew about because Obi-Wan kept them safe.
I just can't see anything that would be interesting or make sense even in that scenario. Nobody knows that Luke is of any relevance, and Obi Wan killing anyone would most likely just draw more people to the area.
PhantomHound
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Woah, woah, woah.
There's a taken 3?
There's a taken 3?
I really hope they get them back in print now that were post Lucas
You would be too if you had a special set of skills.
Bobby Roberts
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They're not going to do this. There's basically not enough time. They've already got 2 spinoff movies in some form of production or another, plus the actual sequel trilogy. It's pretty obvious one of these movies is NOT going to be a Qui-Gon spinoff, otherwise the quotes in this interview wouldn't have come out of his mouth. So that means if it were to come, it would have to come somewhere after 2018/2019 at the earliest.
He's saying it'd be nice to be Qui-Gon in a movie again. It probably would be. But by the time a slot opens up for such a thing to happen, he'll be almost 70 - playing a version of the character YOUNGER than the one he played in 1998/1999.
He's saying it'd be nice to be Qui-Gon in a movie again. It probably would be. But by the time a slot opens up for such a thing to happen, he'll be almost 70 - playing a version of the character YOUNGER than the one he played in 1998/1999.
Every time I think about Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan from the prequels I'm reminded of the Plinkett Reviews, specifically about how their roles should be reversed. In the movie the older Qui-Gonn, who is a Master Jedi, is a rebellious risk-taker who constantly goes against the Council's wishes. While Obi-Wan, the younger apprentice, is actually the cautious rule abiding Jedi. It really makes no sense.
This logic won't work on this thread sadly, you have multiple people theorizing on Christopher Lee playing a pre-Episode I Dooku!
Perfect Cha0s
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Eh, by the time anything could come of this, he will be well-past being able to appear younger than he did in Ep I.
I mean, the dude is 92. With a little makeup, I could believe he's a 67 year old Jedi.
I preferred the assessment that "Qui Gon Jinn and Obi Wan Kenobi should have been combined into one new character...called Obi Wan Kenobi"
The only thing that Qui Gon provided was motivation for training Anakin, and that wasn't earned on screen. We just had to trust that Obi Wan believed in his vision so much that he'd go along with a plan he hated while the guy was alive. It would have been a much better story if Obi Wan was the one who believed in Anakin, actually giving some bit of emotion later when they fight. But there are a thousand dominos that would have to fall into place to allow that last movie to have anything resembling emotion so it's not worth wondering what would happen if you fixed one of the many problems these movies had.
He is very very frail, there is no way he can play someone in his mid-60's.
Christopher Lee at 92:
Christopher at 67 (the age he'd have to play for a film set at the time of Episode I. Assuming they filmed it right now not even a few years down the line):
Renegade Yeti
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Means we can get more use out of this GIF
Perfect Cha0s
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Oh I know. I was being funny, but I do think with some makeup it wouldn't be too hard to visually sell audiences on him being a 67 year old version of himself.
At BEST he'd look like he did in Attack of the Clones ala Hobbit to Lord of the Rings though. Any film would be set over a decade before that if it had Qui-Gon, Episode II was 10 years after Episode I.
Shanks D Zoro
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It kinda makes sense, Obi Wan is around 20 in Episode 1, and has spent most of his live learning about the rules and ways of the Jedi. he is still learning the ways of the galaxy and doesn't dare go against that which he knows. But you can tell in the later films that he has become more of a risk taker.
BlackGhost
Banned
He's 62?! Would have never guessed
I think you're overstating the amount of work it would take to de-age Neeson to his 20 years younger self.
Why de-age? The spin-offs could take place after E1.
You know he died, right.
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
Simple, Dooku was already 92 when Palp first turned him. Palp then used the mediclorins to experiment on Dooku to stop Dooku ageing.
Dooku is actually in his hundreds in attack of the clone.
Where do i sign to start work on the script?
Dooku is actually in his hundreds in attack of the clone.
Where do i sign to start work on the script?
Did he give him the gift of being able to walk as well? Lee can't walk anymore...
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