Harrison Ford Predicted His Leg Injury In An Interview Taken Back In 1979!

Harrison FordYahoo.com found an interesting video taken back in 1979 from a BBC TV series called “The Risk Business”. In this documentary the cast and crew of The Empire Strikes Back explain what are the risks of making a sequel to Star Wars. It appears that Harrison Forn jinxed himslef 35 years ago.

 

From Yahoo:

Mark Hamill acknowledges that the reaction to Empire could be either “Terrific, when’s the next one?” or “Nice try.” Carrie Fisher worries that she could “end up being ‘The Fonz of Space’” after one too many sequels.

 

Harrison Ford, on the other hand, has just one small concern about making another Star Wars movie. “The worst risk would be spraining my ankle,” he jokes. But oddly enough, Ford’s quip turned out to be prescient, as he broke his leg on the Millennium Falcon set while filming the seventh Star Wars film.

 

 

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31 thoughts on “Harrison Ford Predicted His Leg Injury In An Interview Taken Back In 1979!

  • February 11, 2015 at 4:06 pm
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    Cool

  • February 11, 2015 at 4:32 pm
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    That’s so weird! Why did he say “ankle” and not just “leg”???

    • February 11, 2015 at 4:34 pm
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      Dum dum dummmmm

    • February 11, 2015 at 6:55 pm
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      Because ““The worst risk would be spraining my leg” would sound stupid.

  • February 11, 2015 at 4:38 pm
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    The Empire Strikes Back has been many things to me over the years. When I was little it was the worst film in the trilogy it was slow, boring, and had kissing in it and kissing was gross to me. Not to mention everything that happens to Han Solo. TESB was anything but the best of the OT. Then one day while I was waiting for one of the Prequels to come out I think Ep. II, I decided to watch all the films again and realized how wrong I was about TESB. Now Empire is not only my favorite Star Wars film but comes real close to being my favorite film of all time.

    So Mark Hamill also kind of called it when he said you’ll either like it or hate it and to me is been a rocky road to greatness.

    • February 11, 2015 at 5:14 pm
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      Funny you say that because I can remember the general feeling of TESB at the time was slow and boring I watched it with my cousins at the cinema and was bored shitless mind you I was only 8, but ANH to me was amazing and just a thrill to watch, now I’m much older TESB is a tremendous film and yes the best out of all of them.

      • February 11, 2015 at 5:34 pm
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        Which sort of shows the conundrum at the heart of making any Star Wars film. Its a bit difficult to please adults and keep in mind it is also meant for kids. Which is why when I was adult when the PT came out, I was smart enough to try and view them, not necessarily as a “kid” but simply an open minded fan. They definitely don’t compare to the OT, but they’re Star Wars. The PT is still fun and exciting cause I got to finally see more of the Star Wars “universe” which I always wanted. Many won’t agree but return of the Jedi has always been my favorite. I guess cause it had a great balance of fun kid stuff, as well as the drama and story telling that adults need. I hope TFA still takes plenty of both into account.

        • February 11, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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          see i dont know why the OT was for “kids”? teenagers and young adults, i get that, but the PT is definitely different imo that it was for kids…i remember seeing epiii in theatres and there were <10's all over the place…i would be surprised to learn that that was the case for the OT…but I wasnt alive so I dont know.

          • February 11, 2015 at 6:27 pm
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            Of course there were a lot of kids in the audience for the OT, Including myself. Saw Star Wars and Empire in an ’82 Re-release and Jedi during it’s original run in 1983 and I was only 6.

          • February 11, 2015 at 8:41 pm
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            Phantom Menace was the most kiddy Star Wars film. Revenge of the Sith was the least. I don’t think it’s a PT vs OT thing…

        • February 12, 2015 at 12:37 am
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          I would agree 🙂 I was 9 when I saw Return of the Jedi, the first Star Wars film to mee (the other two I had to wait 2 more years for a vhs copy) and till now it´s the one I love the most..maybe because it was the first to see, maybe because I´ve seen it with my brother and father…but all these years it remains in my hart

    • February 11, 2015 at 5:27 pm
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      Wholeheartedly agree. I always liked ROTJ because it had more action but now TESB seems to be my go-to when I wanna watch an OT film

      • February 11, 2015 at 6:11 pm
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        The balancing act is indeed hard. You don’t wish to lose the kids, but you want to have a movie that is still interesting to older fans. Abrams must aim for an audience of essentially ALL ages, at least up to the middle-aged fans of the OT that fell in love with Star Wars as children.

        But I can’t agree that ROTJ is a very good example. It is too uneaven and inconsistent in style — the juvenile Ewok stuff doesn’t sit well next to Luke’s test before the dark throne of the Emperor. We seem to be cutting back and forth betweeen a half-silly children’s movie and a dark Shakespearean drama. In these respects Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope are better; kids are able to understand those movies, but the films aren’t juvenile. Dark stuff is allowed to happen (Anakin gets disfigured, many pilots whose faces we see are killed in the attack on the Death Star). In The Phantom Menace, on the other hand, the cute little war at the end is too obviously sanitized for children (how many dead Gungans do we see?) In ROTJ we similiarly seem to have exactly ONE (1) dead Ewok when a race of living teddy bears with stone age technology are attacking what Palpatine claimed was a legion of his best troops.

  • February 11, 2015 at 6:09 pm
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    Im surprised so many people seem to have felt that empire was slow…it opens up with one of the best battle scenes ever and the rest of the movie involves the falcon being chased through space by vader and boba fett. the thing about sequels is that they can jump right into action since the character and story development has already taken place, just that some sequels get carried away and lack plot. empire did it well and so did the dark knight. films like aliens missed it.

    • February 11, 2015 at 7:32 pm
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      Actually I probably should have said that after the battle of Hoth and the Asteroid chase the movie slowed down and kind of bored me. I was not old enough the understand the wisdom of Yoda or grasp the romance between Han and Leia. To be fair i remember as a child just wanting to get to Cloud City that when the action kicks back up. Jedi was my favorite OT film because at the time it was more kid friendly. I Like (and sadly still do) the Ewoks and the whole movie had something interesting going on whether its Jabba the Hutt or every scene with the Emperor. Now in the present Jedi is good but not my favorite film.

      As for the Dark Knight or any sequel for that matter they have a tough time of not only trying to live up to the standards of the first film but also being its own person. What makes both the Dark Knight and TESB special is that they are different then the first films yet still feel like they belong together.

  • February 11, 2015 at 6:17 pm
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    Nice to read about similar experiences. I didn’t like TESB as a kid but think it’s the best now. It was weird, slow, emotional, and more of a cerebral film. I remember thinking it was weird the stormtroopers didn’t talk in TESB. ANH will always be extra special though because it was the first. It was new. No other film can be “first”. Plus, when you consider being a kid, there’s no way an adult will ever recapture those feelings no matter how great the new films may turn out.

  • February 11, 2015 at 6:23 pm
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    The Dark Knight was good because it didn’t open with a 20-minutes flash-back montage, that and Heath Ledger ran the show. I still maintain the the Dark Knight trilogy was bad except for the Joker Scenes. Begins was a new thing so it was applauded, Rises was mediocre and lesser liked, Dark Knight was actually about on level with Rises except for the scenes with Heath Ledger. Think about it. Name one really good scene in Dark Knight that has no rushed feeling, doesn’t feel like plot-exposition, and doesn’t have Heath Ledger. I can’t name one, except Morgan Freeman, he’s cool, there was that scene where he explains to some a##hole that it makes zero sense to blackmail him, nice. But that’s it, every other scene just plain out wasn’t that enjoyable. Dark Knight is a good film IN SPITE OF being a Nolan Batfilm. That’s the way I see it.
    Wait, what were we talking about??

    • February 11, 2015 at 8:18 pm
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      Without the mesmerizing performance of Heath Ledger keeping you aghast for 2 hours, TDK is a pretty mediocre film. Nolan paced it perfectly to hide some of the so-so plot holes, but overall leaned heavily on the Joker’s depiction.

      ESB is the better overall film.

      • February 12, 2015 at 12:45 am
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        I agree. I was telling everyone back then that the movie is mediocre. But they were all “Heath Ledger´s dead let´s give him an Oscar, he´s so great actor”…and the movie was overhyped just because of that….And then came Dark Knight Rises….a movie so bad that I dare to put it at the same level as Smaug and Five Armies…The only ona rewatchable to me is Batman Begins….(I still prefer the first two Burton´s)

  • February 11, 2015 at 7:28 pm
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    It says Harrison Forn in the article:

    “It appears that Harrison Forn jinxed himslef 35 years ago.”

    Nice precognition skills btw.

  • February 11, 2015 at 7:29 pm
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    I’m surprised people aren’t talking more about Gary Kurtz and how he may have the most important quotes in this video- ironically describing the future prequels to Star Wars while talking about Sci-fi films:

    “There’ve been a lot of science fiction films throughout the history of movies. Some have been really good and some have been terrible, but the elements that make them good are the characterizations. The space hardware that we have and the special effects are as good as we can possibly do them, but we can have a whole movie full of great special effects and people would fall asleep.”

    SO TRUE. Eps 1-3 are perfect examples of that.

    • February 11, 2015 at 8:26 pm
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      Kurtz was integral to the best two films of the series. (HINT: The first two made).

      • February 11, 2015 at 8:40 pm
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        No, he wasn’t. He was just the line producer.

  • February 11, 2015 at 8:25 pm
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    Is that Alan Partridge presenting?

  • February 11, 2015 at 8:25 pm
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    Han Solo is Kanan Jarrus.

    Clearly.

  • February 11, 2015 at 9:32 pm
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    Jedi is still the best for me, just need the remote to fast fwd past those Ewoks..

  • February 11, 2015 at 10:38 pm
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    Carrie Fisher was hot in those days.

    mmmmhhhhh

  • February 11, 2015 at 10:51 pm
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    Man, I love that set!

  • February 12, 2015 at 2:30 am
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    Guess its news compared to posting unconfirmed, anonymous scoops.The latest being a one liner. Please show some restraint community. Why even, I don’t have the slightest?

  • February 12, 2015 at 3:25 am
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    People are going to absolutely flip out when they see Han/Leia/Luke on screen again. The teaser is nothing compared to second trailer.

  • February 12, 2015 at 10:42 pm
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    That’s pretty damn funny.

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