Star Wars Episode 9 Cast Includes Carrie Fisher By Using Old Footage

@lkk102466: >Rian's The Last Jedi - "the jedi legacy is one of failure"

>Ignores 10,000 years of Star Wars history where the Jedi successfully kept peace and maintained an intergalactic empire

@fishnpeas1: Same reason I saw it twice, too. I was like "It's Star Wars, maybe my expectations were just too high?" Nope. Awful and never been so pissed off after a movie.

@PETERAKO: I think that's been the writing more than anything.

@Poodger: I mean, I think that's more Carrie Fisher passing away suddenly than The Last Jedi leaving itself nowhere to go. They put their bet on the wrong OG cast member. : \

@aross2004: That's honestly how I thought it was gonna go when I saw that scene. I was like "oh shit, that was quick." Then she does some intergalactic superman impersonation in space and I'm like "wtf?"

@aross2004: ok, that's all i'm asking...the sad tragic death of a beloved character to bring a tear to the most jaded viewer or mary poppins which pretty much caused everyone to vomit with rage? was it REALLY that hard a choice??

@aross2004: She died at the end of 2016. Editing the movie might have been best, but that'd have involved re-writes and re-shoots for her scenes later in the film, delayed the movie for a while, and cost them a bunch more money. By the time Carrie Fisher passed, I'd guess Disney already had a lot of co-marketing deals in place for The Last Jedi, that involved the movie coming out Holiday 2017.

Also, that's probably the expected solution, and it sure seems like old Rian Johnson had his heart set on doing absolutely nothing anybody expected with The Last Jedi. : \

@aross2004: In a way I agree that they should have edited the "Marry Poppins / Superwoman" scene (no disrespect to Carrie, RIP) to give her a tragic but epic departure from the series (it was her Force power that held the ship together as much as she could to save the others that ejected her in to space, according to the novel). They had plenty of time to do so, but Rian (and surely Darth Kathy) didn't want to waste ANY footage they had of her (no matter how good or bad).

But with JJ back and having un-used footage, maybe they can make her sensible in 9, instead of us reading that she "died in her sleep on board the Millennium Falcon" at the beginning scroll of the movie... Rumor has it she was supposed to have a much BIGGER role in 9, even fighting Kylo Ren herself, though I doubt footage without CGI can achieve that now. But I welcome her in to the film in any form

@aross2004: Because Rian Johnson trolled Star Wars as a franchise.

@gleencross: Dude, there is no way Episode 9 will flop. It may very well be bad, but there are legions of fans who are going to go see this movie because it's Star Wars: Episode 9 and it's going to get an absolute ton of marketing.

@thephenom921: show of hands: who was jazzed out of their minds with the trailers and then ready to punch someone out when leaving the theater?

@thephenom921: they let a lot of things happen in the last movie that were not done right....

@olddadgamer: If a series like The Fast and Furious can give Paul Walker a touching, well executed send off, I'm sure Disney can handle it for Carrie Fisher.

@olddadgamer: So you can't watch the original Star Wars movies anymore because a dead actress is in them? You make no sense. Maybe if they used a CG Leia there might be a creepy factor but that is not the case.