Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo?
Hollywood star Harrison Ford will reportedly return as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII.
The 70-year-old actor has closed a deal to reprise his role in Disney’s new trilogy, reported Digital Spy online. Although it is not clear whether Ford’s appearance would be a cameo or a more substantial part.
Disney is also planning a series of standalone spin-off movies based around individual characters, including Han Solo and Boba Fett. J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, while Michael Arndt is writing the script.
Earlier today, it was reported that Ewan McGregor has also expressed an interest in returning to the franchise.
McGregor, 41, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy, told MTV News that he liked the idea of a film following the Jedi knight in his wilderness years.
He said: “I think it’s a good idea.”
“The only bit that I could get away with doing is after the last one I made, Episode III, before Alec Guinness, there’s that period where he’s in the desert. That might be my window, there, to tell that story. I don’t know what he did in the desert. We could make up some stuff.”
Mark Hamill, Frank Oz, Carrie Fisher have also said they would be willing to reprise their roles as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and the voice of Yoda for the rumoured spin-offs.
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Blacklisted screenwriter dies at 98
Los angeles: A blacklisted US screenwriter who later named names to Communist hunters during the McCarthy era has died. Richard Collins was 98.
His son, Michael Collins, tells the Los Angeles Times that Collins died on Friday of pneumonia. Collins was one of 19 writers and directors called by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 in a probe of supposed Communist subversion in Hollywood. He wasn’t asked to testify, but 10 who refused to answer questions about their beliefs were jailed in what has widely been called a witch hunt. Collins was subpoenaed again in 1951 and identified more than 20 colleagues as Communist sympathisers. He later expressed regrets. — AP
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