Is Billie Lourd Really Playing Young Leia in The Force Awakens? Fisher to Receive an Oscar Wilde Award, Hosted by J.J. Abrams!

Billie Lourd LeiaIt seems that the rumors about Billie Lourd taking up the role of young Princess Leia, are gaining more credibility. This would also support the rumor that flashbacks will appear in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens in some capacity, be they visions, holographic messages, or dreams.

 

 

While the prospect of Lourd playing a young Princess Leia itself has been discussed for a while, many had believed that she may have been playing Leia’s daughter instead of Leia herself (HERE).

 

Now, two reliable sources report that she might indeed be playing Leia in articles discussing her role in the upcoming television series Scream Queens.

 

From Deadline:

On the feature side, Lourd has been rumored to be playing a younger version of her mom’s character, Princess Leia, in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens.

 

From E Online:

Lourd will make her big screen debut playing the younger version of her mom Princess Leia in flashbacks in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens.

 

The implications this has on the film itself is interesting – while visions, holographic messages, and dreams have all played their parts in the narrative of the previous six Star Wars movies, none of the movies have used those plot devices to delve into the past of the Galaxy Far, Far Away. It will be interesting to see how Billie’s scene will play out in the film – and if any other members of the cast make surprise appearances as established characters from the era of the Original Trilogy.

 

Also keep in mind that Pablo Hidalgo, one of the leading minds at the Lucasfilm Story Group in sorting out canon from here on out, made a statement at SDCC 2014 in which he did not completely ruled out the possibility of flashbacks for Episode VII (HERE).

 

 

 

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In related news, TheHollywoodReporter just announced that Carrie Fisher will be honoured at this years Oscar Wilde Awards. The event will be hosted by none other than J.J. Abrams himself.

Carrie Fisher has joined the list of honorees at the 10th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, which will be hosted by her Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams on Feb. 19 in Santa Monica.

 

The nonprofit US-Ireland Alliance created the party — held each year the Thursday before the Academy Awards — to recognize the contributions of the Irish in film and television. Fisher, born in Beverly Hills to actress Debbie Reynolds and entertainer Eddie Fisher, is the latest in the line of “honorary” Irish to take the podium.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

107 thoughts on “Is Billie Lourd Really Playing Young Leia in The Force Awakens? Fisher to Receive an Oscar Wilde Award, Hosted by J.J. Abrams!

  • February 3, 2015 at 2:13 pm
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    So now this royal hollywood family now will have a third generation girl hitting the big screen, i like that as she is not only beautiful like her mom have been a long time,but getting her first big role in Star Wars is the dream jump into fame for anyone.What ever she will play i can’t wait to see her in the movie !

  • February 3, 2015 at 2:31 pm
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    Yeah JJ, why not, Flashback, great idea…

    Oh my god …

    • February 3, 2015 at 3:09 pm
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      haha!

      • February 3, 2015 at 6:09 pm
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        lol no likes

    • February 3, 2015 at 4:37 pm
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      If Jedi can see the future, why not remember the past…?
      I’m sure if EVII has flashback it will be well done. (again, i trust in Lawrence Kasdan)
      It’s something new in SW. Probably it’s a “critic move”. With a flashback you’re not copying OT, even if it’s made with practical effects, shot in 35mm, original cast, and so on…
      Let’s see it and then criticize

      • February 3, 2015 at 4:59 pm
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        I agree. The idea that Star Wars doesn’t have flashbacks because “Star Wars doesn’t do flashbacks” is ridiculous. This is the first time that the movies are picking up 30 years from where the storyline left off, it’s the first time that flashbacks have become so appropriate of an option. It all depends on how it’s handled (not that casting an inexperienced actress will necessarily work out well).

        • February 3, 2015 at 6:40 pm
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          Thing is with Star Wars anything you need to to with a flashback, you can do as a hologram.

        • February 3, 2015 at 7:39 pm
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          @anon 16:59, yeah, so quit criticizing Sabine because Star Wars characters don’t wear pink armor. Eat a slice of your own humble pie man.

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:07 pm
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      Wow people are seriously nitpicking this movie…I mean I expected it because its star wars but jeez..a flashback is not the end of the world.

  • February 3, 2015 at 2:41 pm
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    I’m completely cool with a plot device that shows us a glimpse of the past, so far as it doesn’t dwell there. I mean, thats what all these new comics, novels, and Rebels are for. I hope the focus is on the current time period moving forward. I’m not one of these that will be offended by the lack of screen swipes and the addition of lense flares and new plot devices (although not starting with the crawl would be disappointing and it may be weird just to not hear the 20th Century Fox theme at first, but I digress). That being said, I do notice that Lourde is the same age (+ 1 yr) that Fisher was when ANH was first released in ’77. It’s not out of the question to make her play an even younger version of the character as many movies have had 20-somethings play teenagers in the past. But I hope they leave Leia from ANH to now to Carrie Fisher. A “flashback” of Leia from this time period would in essence be a re-cast, so I don’t think that will be the case. But time will tell.

  • February 3, 2015 at 3:12 pm
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    Star Wars films and flashbacks are two completely different things, but who knows. If it come to be true, the nature of this new trilogy may will very far from what we already know as “star wars”; I mean: a bigger plot that ties together many eras, and perhaps a closer eye to the old characters’ past. The flashbacks idea makes me a bit disappointed, but I also think that if the plot needs to be explained with some flashbacks, we will see a very BIG and intense movie.

    You know: nobody would upset the story of a such great saga, if it was not strictly necessary…

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:40 pm
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      particularly when JJ and Kasden are carbon copying the OT every step of the way so far.

  • February 3, 2015 at 3:13 pm
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    Carrie Fisher as “honorary” Irish? Just how much booze do you have to consume before the Irish except you?…. I know it’s a cheep shot but hey we are all thinking about it. 😉

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:12 pm
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      At least the Irish know the difference between “accept” and “except”, even when pished.

      • February 3, 2015 at 11:34 pm
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        That’s a “cheep” shot man. 😉

    • February 4, 2015 at 12:16 am
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      Aren’t you lucky you aren’t making bigoted remarks about African-Americans or muslims!

    • February 5, 2015 at 12:09 am
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      I complained about this being a racist remark yesterday and that comment seems to have been deleted. So let me repeat that this poster’s characterisation of Irish people as drunken is racist. And as others point out, the post itself is also illiterate. I find it very distressing that my complaint about the comment has disappeared but that the comment itself is allowed to stand.

      • February 6, 2015 at 6:45 pm
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        In order for it to be racist the Irish would have to be a race. They are not, Irish is a nationality not a race. People of all races can be Irish. Culturally insensitive? Yes, but not racist.

  • February 3, 2015 at 3:25 pm
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    Given the time that has passed since ROJ, it seems like a flashback could make some sense so long as, as Hard Case suggested, they don’t dwell on it.

  • February 3, 2015 at 3:46 pm
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    WHY does everyone seem to have such a problem with flashbacks? There is 30 years between movies and if they have characters that weren’t in the OT they may have no other choice other than to use flashbacks.

      • February 3, 2015 at 6:49 pm
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        are you impying that I said a new hope did have flashbacks?

        • February 3, 2015 at 7:03 pm
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          You’re implying that i’m implying that you said that A New Hope had flashbacks? The answer is no, you’re being ridiculous. What i’m saying is the story of Revenge Of The Sith was around at some capacity when A New Hope was made. A New Hope is set 19 or so years after Revenge Of The Sith and has characters that weren’t in the prequels and didn’t have flashbacks, so it should with good writing work just fine without flashbacks.

          • February 3, 2015 at 7:36 pm
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            You’re delusional if you think Lucas had a plan for rots when he made anh originally…

          • February 3, 2015 at 7:51 pm
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            Maybe you didn’t read this part? “What i’m saying is the story of Revenge Of The Sith was around “at some capacity” when A New Hope was made.” A New Hope Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: “A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.” I’m not going to discuss this with you if you keep jumping the gun into some kind of argument.

        • February 3, 2015 at 8:30 pm
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          I wish it did, a montage while Obi Wan told Luke of Vader and the Clone Wars.

          • February 3, 2015 at 8:50 pm
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            Hell no that would have killed the moment.
            It would have been incredibly stupid. All flash no substance.

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:47 pm
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      probably the same reason some of you have problems with CGI: it’s not traditionally included in Star Wars… with no other apparent reasons.

      • February 3, 2015 at 10:19 pm
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        “probably the same reason some of you have problems with CGI: it’s not traditionally included in Star Wars… with no other apparent reasons.”

        No. It’s because it looked fake and was overdone. Not one costumed clone trooper in the entire PT? No location shooting with actors present anywhere in Episode III? o_0

      • February 5, 2015 at 12:14 am
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        CGI has been in Star Wars since the very begining.

    • February 3, 2015 at 10:14 pm
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      “There is 30 years between movies and if they have characters that weren’t in the OT they may have no other choice other than to use flashbacks.”

      If you’re okay with flashbacks, cool. But let’s not pretend they’re *absolutely necessary* to introduce new characters in VII.

  • February 3, 2015 at 4:11 pm
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    Wait. So it is not ok to have a flashback, but it is ok to flash forward 10 years between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones? Gotcha.

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:34 pm
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      What are you talking about?

    • February 3, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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      Jumping 10 years in the middle of the trilogy was dumb. We have an awkward love story where the guy goes from being a kid to a young adult, but the woman stays the same? Creepy.

      It’s like Anakin married his Kindergarten teacher’s helper. 0_o

      • February 3, 2015 at 10:52 pm
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        Anonymous February 03, 2015 at 19:52 PM

        now Disney is milking that talent by having any force-sensative moron be able to see the past (ie, Ezra Bridger.)

        ———————————————-

        For me Ezra is a complete nuissance. I wish we had Starkiller instead. His story was so full of passion and action that Im’ genuinely surprised Disney didn’t see the potential in that EU timeline to make a series out of.

    • February 4, 2015 at 12:02 am
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      You don’t know what a flashforward is.

    • February 4, 2015 at 1:41 am
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      A flash pack and flash forward take the viewer from present time to another point in time and then back to present. Just incase you didnt know.

  • February 3, 2015 at 4:15 pm
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    Both of the sources that talk about her involvement are just basing their statements off of past rumors. It’s not like they received individual confirmation that she is in it. You can’t really site them as having any credible knowledge. If those initial rumors are true though and she is in the film I don’t believe there will be a flash back. I do like the idea of a holographic message that Leia made years ago. But that’s not a flash back.

  • February 3, 2015 at 4:27 pm
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    I’ve never heard this young lady speak – does she even sound like Carrie Fisher a little bit? I’ve always liked CF’s voice.

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:34 pm
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      I liked her voice too. BACK THEN.
      Now, she sounds like an old man who has smoked a carton of cigs per day for 20 years.
      But, it doesn’t matter, there is only ONE Leia!

  • February 3, 2015 at 5:03 pm
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    If Lucas can use flashforwards in ROTS, then Abrams can use flashbacks in TFA…and probably make it work better than Lucas could have.

    • February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm
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      Was never a fan of actually seeing flash forwards in Star Wars. They looked bad.

  • February 3, 2015 at 5:11 pm
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    JJ Abrams is going to fix plot holes created by the PT.
    Leia will have a Vision of the past in which she sees Bail’s wife and herself enjoying an afternoon of knitting.
    now she can tell Luke that she made a mistake. It wasn’t her real mother she remembered after all.

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:50 pm
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      too bad somebody couldn’t go back and fix the problems in the OT… and there were a lot of them.

      “Vader murdered your father….. from a certain point of view.”

      • February 3, 2015 at 10:00 pm
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        Hey, if bashing the classic and universally beloved originals makes you feel better about yourself…

      • February 4, 2015 at 9:26 am
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        umm…Vader murdered Anakin metaphorically.

  • February 3, 2015 at 5:26 pm
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    I think good art needs to continually break the mould of what`s gone before,otherwise it can become stale and repetitive;the thing I`m most looking forward to with TFA is that we have no idea what to expect from this movie – flashbacks,slow-motion sequences – all the stuff we haven`t seen in the previous 6 movies could be in this one,and I`d welcome that with open arms – what I`m saying is that TFA doesn`t have look or feel like any of the previous 6 to succeed.

  • February 3, 2015 at 5:45 pm
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    Star Wars NEVER had flash backs. It’s a disgrace if they start using it. Complete disaster. Leave Star Wars alone

    • February 3, 2015 at 6:01 pm
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      Weve had alternate universes, but no! Flashbacks are invalid.

    • February 3, 2015 at 6:03 pm
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      Meesa no likey you. Meesa likey flashback. Meesa tinkie humans are backwards. Gungans like being in flashbacks!

  • February 3, 2015 at 5:45 pm
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    “Through the Force, things you will see. The future… THE PAST. Old friends long gone.” -Yoda

    Anakin had the ability to ‘see things before they happen’ through his dream-visions, and audiences accepted the ‘unconventionality’ of how that was presented on screen, so I’d have no problems if his daughter was now shown to have this ‘clairvoyant’ gift as well, and seeing visions of the past.

    In fact, the idea of seeing those who are long-gone through the Force could actually help to smooth out the continuity problem of Padme dying in childbirth, since Leia told Luke in ROTJ that her “memories” of her real mother were really just IMAGES. Like Ree Yees said, maybe the LFL story team could just ret-con it now to ‘clarify’ that young Leia had seen visions of her real mother in dreams?

    Maybe people are turned off when they hear the term ‘flashback’ because they associate that with cheesy tropes like the screen turning into a ripple-effect, and dreamy harp music starting to play as the story goes back in time, but I think if there is a flashback in TFA, it’ll be handled in a way that works for the story.

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:32 pm
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      Luke also had a vision in that cave.

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:52 pm
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      now Disney is milking that talent by having any force-sensative moron be able to see the past (ie, Ezra Bridger.)

    • February 3, 2015 at 10:24 pm
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      Yeah. I’d prefer it if Leia doesn’t use her Force powers to fix prequel continuity errors.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:02 pm
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    Maybe its not about episode VII or flashbacks at all, even though Carrie n Bllie are mum and daughter, Leia’s character sure is huge shoes to fill and with so much going on within the SW universe, time is short to learn not only Leia’s character but the entire SW feel. Is it possible that Billie Lourd is indeed playing Leia, but playing Leia in one of the spin off movies? I’m not sure if one of the rumours about the stealing of the death star plans was debunked? If you can imagine for a moment, how much going on leading up to the opening sequence of ANH, we have Tarkin, Vader, a death star, rebels, maybe the inquisitor even, 3PO, R2 a princess and a failed mission lol and of course let’s not forget, we have Billie Lourd. we have everything we need for yet another amazing SW movie, let’s not waste precious movie time in TFA with silly and unneeded flashbacks! Thoughts?

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:56 pm
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      The Empire were developing a time warp as a weapon against the New Republic…. but instead, created an independent and alternate timeline set in the Episode IV era. Now, there are new and younger actors (just like JJ Abram’s new Star Treks) with Billie Lourd as Leia and some un-named younger guy as Luke. They go through the same Storyline, but with a twist here and there becuse it’s an “alternate timeline.” A reboot.

      Search your feelings. You know this is true.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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    It’s possible that a ‘flashback’ of this particular actress in this particular character, could also serve as a nice visual tie-in to a future stand-alone movie of the same character. There could be multiple reasons, practical and otherwise, for doing ‘flashbacks/visions’ in this movie with the original(older) cast to help transition into the next generation of Star Wars to come.

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:58 pm
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      please don’t use the word ‘practical.’ I hear it too often on this site without you.

      • February 3, 2015 at 10:29 pm
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        Get used to it.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:15 pm
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    Yeah, I have no problem with flashbacks, but flashbacks often come with unwanted clutter, which would instantly lower the films Quality Standard. However I think if they do it PROPERLY, we won’t even mind.

    Examples of well done flashbacks, the deleted/extra scenes in LOTR: Two Towers with Sean Bean, they provided important fast-paced backstory on the motivations and family-dynamic of Faramir, Denethor, and now-deceased Boromir. These scenes were memorable, interesting, and contributed to the character story without noticeable stepping over the current pacing of the film. Star Wars would do well to mimmick that aspect.

    If they go Batman Begins with it, where the whole first half is a big bowl of “I don’t know how to start the film so I’ll give you a montage, and then I’ll show the actual beginning in Gotham, 20 minutes into the movie”, we’re DOOMED.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:19 pm
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    Flashbacks are almost aways a sign of poor writing pandering to the less perceptive or children unless its a major linchpin of the movie.

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:30 pm
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      So, game of thrones is for children and the walking dead? So star wars is different.

      • February 3, 2015 at 7:56 pm
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        “Almost” And since when was Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead movies?

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:37 pm
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      What about Looper?

      • February 3, 2015 at 9:33 pm
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        I would have to rewatch it again to give you a good opinion on it but, since the movie is already about time travel which in itself is a super evolved version of a flashback having them in a time travel movie is ok most of the time and you may even need them (Primer 2004).

    • February 4, 2015 at 12:23 am
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      Generally yes, but there are plenty of exceptions, e.g., Godfather 2, Once Upon a Time in the West, etc.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:21 pm
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    The only way a flashback should make it into the screen is if Luke or the Sith are meditating and looking into the passed…otherwise it will be cheesy as fuck. and i still think it is going to be cheesy if tey do a flashback with Carries daughter…the girl looks nothing like Carrie….

    • February 3, 2015 at 9:42 pm
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      Billie already resembles her mom Carrie Fisher at that age. Look at the eyes, cheekbones and jawline. A little acting help from her mom in how to speak/behave/mannerisms along with some lipstick and brown hair dye or wig/extensions would bring her pretty damn close to her mother’s looks as Princess Leia.

      • February 4, 2015 at 6:12 am
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        your smoking crack, she looks nothing like Carrie Fisher at a young age. her eyes maybe….bout it.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:29 pm
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    I’m sorry, can anyone point me to the paragraph in the Star Wars Rulebook that you guys seem to have, where it says flashbacks aren’t allowed?

    As far as I’m concerned, fanboy garbage rules are simply that. Nobody here is from Lucasfilm or Disney, none of you work all day to establish the new canon and keep track of it in all of it’s new various forms of media, so until one of you do, I really don’t understand how this apparent rule against flashbacks has any validity.

      • February 3, 2015 at 7:28 pm
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        Why do you even?

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:57 pm
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      George Lucas said he does not like flashbacks and that they are not in his films. Visions are not flashbacks.
      George Lucas also does not like Wire work either. Just because I did see him say it in an interview and hear him state it, I can’t possibly give a resource with the 1000 of interviews he has done. I just can’t keep up.

      But he did state it as a rule to Star Wars when he still owened the franchise, that there are no flashbacks in star wars.
      So its not just a Fanboy thing.

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:46 pm
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    I think it’s perfect, maybe we can see how was leia’s before ep IV, if they introduce flahsback it must be very relevant for the plot and maybe theres is flashbacks of a young luke! … its okey jj need to conect the ot with the sequel … good move

    • February 3, 2015 at 6:55 pm
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      i love it and domhnall gleeson can play a young Luke!!!!!!!!

  • February 3, 2015 at 6:51 pm
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    She looks more like her grandmother then her mother. Doubt seriously she’s playing a young Leia.

    If we do have flashbacks, I suspect they will have to do with the new villain and the sith.

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:47 pm
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      She is being shot with her white hood up and from behind.

      • February 4, 2015 at 6:16 am
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        yeah…and you know this how? I highly doubt Debbie Reynolds would be bragging about her granddaughter being in 10 seconds of the film…..she is playing something different. she has a roll. her own character.if all she was doing was a flashback scene…nobody would even give a shit…. that would be like bragging about being in a laundry detergent commercial.

  • February 3, 2015 at 7:39 pm
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    This movie’s sounding better & better by the minute ….

    • February 3, 2015 at 9:02 pm
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      I know I’m definitely buying a ticket…and then seeing it again.

  • February 3, 2015 at 7:45 pm
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    what in the hell does Boba Fett have to do with anything? Might as well include a flashback of Zam Wessell.

    • February 3, 2015 at 8:26 pm
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      Dengar and Lobot…the lost years!

    • February 3, 2015 at 10:09 pm
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      “what in the hell does Boba Fett have to do with anything?”

      He wears a helmet, thus making it easier to do a flashback on him 30 years later. Pay attention.

  • February 3, 2015 at 8:12 pm
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    I’m all for flashbacks. Two main reasons:
    – It could explain what is canon if it showed some “Old Republic” stuff.
    – There are MANY things from the Empire era that we haven’t yet seen.

  • February 3, 2015 at 8:29 pm
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    Nobody gives a shit about a boba flashback. Go watch AOTC to see that

    • February 3, 2015 at 10:10 pm
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      Besides the point…

  • February 3, 2015 at 8:37 pm
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    Flashbacks?!?! Fuck that, I’m not going to see TFA since it has flashbacks!

    😉

  • February 3, 2015 at 8:55 pm
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    Maybe a Flashback with Leia and Vader (Hayden?) where she forgive her father.
    Also, I think Hayden in ROTJ is one of the few “Special Editions” things that really works.

  • February 3, 2015 at 9:14 pm
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    Have a feeling this is going to be a very long movie.

    Maybe 3 0r 4 hours long .

  • February 3, 2015 at 9:52 pm
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    What if the second stand alone movie is a found footage movie? That would be weird. Let’s see it! Hahaha!

  • February 4, 2015 at 12:02 am
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    True, but by that reasoning ESB couldn’t use a weird slo-mo dream effect because it wasn’t in ANH, ROTJ (special edition) couldn’t use a montage because it wasn’t in the previous 2 films, TPM couldn’t use a 3PO POV shot because it wasn’t in the previous 3 films, AOTC couldn’t use shakycam because it wasn’t in the previous 4 movies, and ROTS couldn’t use a dream/vision depiction because it wasn’t in the previous 5 films.
    As an aside, there are a couple of flashback sequences in TCW, so it *is* part of the visual language of Star Wars.

  • February 4, 2015 at 12:28 am
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    At this rate if Red 5 is true as the third spinoff and it is all prequels, cast a younger version of Luke. Sure why not.

  • February 4, 2015 at 12:29 am
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    Time travel movie?

    That needs to be left out of Star Wars
    or a lot of fans will be ticked off.

  • February 4, 2015 at 12:33 am
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    I think there will be a flashback sequence, showing a younger Han, Luke and Leia, during the ‘missing’ years in between the OT and ST.

  • February 4, 2015 at 1:24 am
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    I’m with Rey above,
    Why? Why not flashbacks and/or dreams? It’s storytelling – it’s movie making, it’s fun and a good time and some things will work and some won’t. It’s always an evolving medium. Ron Howard on Conan recently said, no one will ever know everything, it’s always changing. It’s an experimental medium I am just excited and hoping for the best, that’s all we can do.

  • February 4, 2015 at 1:57 am
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    No flashbacks J.J.!!!! This is the first thing in a long line of stuff disney will screw up by tossing out Lucas’s stories. It better not be true. Flashback crap has no place in star wars and anybody who doesnt agree doesnt know their star wars very good!!!

  • February 4, 2015 at 2:14 am
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    flashbacks are lazy , takes up screen time when a simple bit of exposition will do , how much of our fav films would be missing if instead of , for example, saying “that bounty hunter we ran into on …..” they cut something else to show a 10 min scene of that. just tell us and then get on with the now story.

  • February 4, 2015 at 5:27 am
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    Let’s face it, JJ is a director, he may have had some input but its not as if he wrote the darn story, cut the man a break

  • February 4, 2015 at 7:12 am
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    I wouldn’t put any stock in these “reports” because they’re not reports at all.

    Deadline specifies when they have an inside scoop and this isn’t that. They just referenced an internet “rumor” (i.e. speculaton) to add something interesting to the article.

    As for E!, they don’t get these kinds of scoops at all. They’re just finding a way to rephrase Deadline’s article.

  • February 4, 2015 at 8:33 pm
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    I don’t think she looks enough like her mother to pull it off. That’s why I don’t think she will be playing a young Leia.

  • February 5, 2015 at 5:12 am
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    VII starts off right after VI with young Leia, then it skips 30 years and continues with old Leia. No flashback/forward, just a bigger timespan.

  • February 5, 2015 at 5:24 am
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    And they will make sure she looks alike, ever heard of CGI? Or was that BANNED for this movie?

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