Cast Star Wars: Heir to the Empire

[DinoDoc]

Movie Director: JJ Abrams
Luke Skywalker: John Noble
Han Solo: Karl Urban
Princess Leia: Ellen Page
C-3P0 (yeah he needs an actor too): Anthony Daniels (It's a ****ing robot. He can easily voice a CGI version)
Lando Calrissian: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Grand Admiral Thrawn: Hugo Weaving
Talon Karrde: Viggo Mortensen
Mara Jade: Bryce Dallas Howard

And maybe some minor characters if you're up to it...
Wedge Antilles: Edward Norton
Captain Pallaeon: Gary Oldman
Joruus C'baoth: Sir Ian McKellen

[snoopy369]

Sorry, how can John Noble be Luke but Ellen Page be Leia? There's like a 40 year age difference there.

[DinoDoc]

Sorry, how can John Noble be Luke but Ellen Page be Leia? There's like a 40 year age difference there.

Would you prefer Chris O'Donnell?

[Hauldren Collider]

Here's mine at the moment:

Movie Director - no idea.
Luke Skywalker - Chris Evans (basically a placeholder, I'm not really sure about this one)
Han Solo - NATHAN FILLION!
Princess Leia - Maggie Gyllenhaal
C-3P0 - Anthony Daniels
Lando Calrissian - ??? Not sure about this one either
Grand Admiral Thrawn - Alan Rickman
Talon Karrde - Robert Downey, Jr.
Mara Jade - Katee Sackhoff
Wedge Antilles - Karl Urban
Captain Pallaeon - Michael Caine
Joruus C'baoth - George Takei

I think Takei is perfect for Joruus.

[DinoDoc]

Han Solo - NATHAN FILLION!
Princess Leia - Maggie Gyllenhaal

You have bad opinions and should feel bad.

[Hauldren Collider]

There is no other option for Han Solo. Period. You are crazy if you think Karl Urban would be better.

[DinoDoc]

Nathan Fillion as awesome as he is hasn't shown an ability to play a morally ambiguous character like Solo.

[Hauldren Collider]

Um, Malcolm Reynolds? And by the end of RotJ he wasn't all that morally ambiguous. Also, neither has Karl Urban.

[snoopy369]

Sorry, Fillion is just too loveable to be Han. Not nearly mean enough. Clint Eastwood, perhaps? He'd make an awesome old Han.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is too young for Leia, also. Postwar Leia needs to be a bit more jaded, less innocent. Uma Thurman, perhaps.

Otherwise, your list in general sounds like a list of 'actors/actresses I like'. Have you seen movies with that many big stars? Ick. Even Ocean's 11, while not a bad movie, is hardly the tone we want in Star Wars. You want one or two stars with a bunch of good character actors who won't take away from the lead actors' spotlight.

[Hauldren Collider]

I'm not much of a film guy and don't know that many actors, so yeah it is in a lot of ways just actors in stuff I like.

If you're going with Clint Eastwood, you may as well just use Harrison Ford himself. Han Solo is only a little older in these books than he was in RotJ.

I don't think most of these people are big stars. A couple are TV actors like Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck). George Takei isn't on anyone's A-list. He's mostly a voice actor. He played a role in Red Alert 3. But I think he'd do really well as the evil jedi master. And I think Alan Rickman would do well as the main villain Thrawn, who is a cerebral guy, unlike Darth Vader who chokes dudes and gets mad.

[DinoDoc]

Postwar Leia needs to be a bit more jaded, less innocent. Uma Thurman, perhaps.

Heir to the Empire is only 9 years ABY.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sorry, Fillion is just too loveable to be Han. Not nearly mean enough.

Seriously. All the Fillion = Han people seem to forget that Malcolm Reynolds was a homage to Han, but had none of Harrison Ford's gruffness. Reynolds was the overly lovable rogue, who was on the side of good. Han did stuff like leave after getting his money (only to decide at the last second to come back to bail Luke out) - Reynolds would never have done that. You need someone who can be a dick as well as someone you root for (kind of like House, M.D.).

[snoopy369]

Heir to the Empire is only 9 years ABY.

Yes, I know. I read the series. Multiple times. When it first came out. Though this has led me to go back and get it again on my iPhone/Kindle so I can reread it again

Sure, but Leia should not be innocent - I think you all are missing some of the most important elements of Star Wars, which is the archetype progression. Leia was innocent (in a whilte dress, braided hair, etc.) in the first movie, but by the end of the third was wearing nature colors and was more of an 'earth mother' type (after progressing through the necessary slutty phase of course ) Maggie is not a mature, earth mother type - she's appropriate if Leia were still naive and innocent.

Han Solo perhaps is not as old as Clint Eastwood, I was sort of exaggerating there. But not Fillion in any event. Someone at least slightly older and more mature. And Han is still somewhat of a rogue - even at the end of RotJ he's a good guy, but a good rogue, just sort of settling down. There's no reason to think he isn't going to still have some of that in him. If anything Fillion is even worse for this reason - Fillion isn't good at serious. If Han has matured, it's matured into a more serious character. Harrison did serious well.

[snoopy369]

Seriously. All the Fillion = Han people seem to forget that Malcolm Reynolds was a homage to Han, but had none of Harrison Ford's gruffness. Reynolds was the overly lovable rogue, who was on the side of good. Han did stuff like leave after getting his money (only to decide at the last second to come back to bail Luke out) - Reynolds would never have done that. You need someone who can be a dick as well as someone you root for (kind of like House, M.D.).

Hah, yes, Hugh Laurie would be a great Han... I think I mentioned him in another thread somewhere? Also, Stephen Fry could then come in and play C3P0 which would work out well I think.

[DinoDoc]

Sure, but Leia should not be innocent - I think you all are missing some of the most important elements of Star Wars, which is the archetype progression. Leia was innocent (in a whilte dress, braided hair, etc.) in the first movie, but by the end of the third was wearing nature colors and was more of an 'earth mother' type (after progressing through the necessary slutty phase of course ) Maggie is not a mature, earth mother type - she's appropriate if Leia were still naive and innocent.