The Palm Beach Illustrated has an interview with Carrie Fisher which is nearly as strange as we’d expect an interview with Carrie Fisher to be. Besides the many questions about Carrie Fisher’s bedroom — geez, Palm Beach Illustrated, take a cold shower — there were two questions of particular interest to us. Fisher confirmed she’ll return as Princess Leia in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII.
Disney is going to continue the Star Wars saga, producing movies set to hit theaters starting in 2015. Can you confirm whether you’ll reprise the role of Princess Leia?
Yes.
What do you think Princess Leia is like today?
Elderly. She’s in an intergalactic old folks’ home [laughs]. I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle.
And still wearing the bagel buns?
The bagel buns and the bikini, because probably she has sundowners syndrome. At sundown, she thinks that she’s 20-something. And she puts it on and gets institutionalized.
This makes Carrie Fisher the first cast member to be confirmed for Star Wars: Episode VII, if she’s not mistaken. Previously, Entertainment Weekly said Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill are “open to the idea” of reprising their roles as well, although nobody has found the time to talk to Hamill about it. Well, maybe if he had better coke, movie executives would call him.
(H/T: io9)
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Well, people would be pissed if she wasn’t back, Disney had a quadrillion dollars to spend on this, she’s not terribly busy, the dots have kind of connected themselves on this one.
I have my own personal Star Wars canon where I pretend Episode I-III didn’t happen and the Expanded Universe books continue the story. These movies are going to fuck that all up for me.
Star Wars Episode VII: Attack of the Bi-Polar Disorder.
Anna Kendrick as her daughter in the lead please! And Jake Johnson as a smuggler.
Technically, she says yes, she can confirm whether she’ll repise the role, not yes, she is reprising it. And agree with RockFlagNEagle… Although I wouldn’t mind a trilogy of Young Jedi Knights. After all, they’re gonna have to skip any of the parts where Luke actually DOES stuff beside be in the roll of a teacher.
What is she coming back as? Jabba the Hutt?
Wouldn’t she stop being a Princess at some point? Is she never upgraded to a Queen?? Or stripped of the title altogether? I never read the later books so I dont know what is happens there. Anyone know?
Well because the planet she’s a Princess of doesn’t exist anymore she can never be coronated as a queen. Princess hangs on as more of an honorary title, though she does go through several “official” titles from Senator, to Minister of State, and eventually Chief of State
I hope they ignore all the books and imply that Leia and Han lived a long, boring, content life after the war. Because in the end, seriously, what kind of happy ending is “and they continued to constantly be in the middle of violent intergalactic shit ever after, and out of their three children, two died, including the time when one fraternal twin killed the other, oh and Han’s best friend died too.”
And yes, this means I want to see Chewie. Part of the reason people hated Eps I and II so much, I believe, was a severe Wookiee drought.
Coming soon: Star Wars The Retirement Home of the Jedi.
If most of the big names in your cast are going to be performing while wearing adult diapers, its probably best to just not bother.