While rummaging around the internet, as one does, I found a really distressing rumor/idea/proposal of a petition to ask Meryl Streep to be General Leia in the upcoming Star Wars installment.
Yup, if you haven't heard this news by now, um, where have you been living?!
But in all seriousness, SAY WHAT?!
Whomever thought this was a good idea, NEEDS TO STOP.
Don't get me wrong, I love Meryl Streep just like the next person. I think she's a wonderful actress who can either play loving mothers, or downright b*tches. And this has NOTHING to do with her quality of work, or as a personal friend of the late Carrie Fisher, but SERIOUSLY?!
Ok, we get it, she played a 'version' of Carrie Fisher in 'Postcards from the Edge' but how does this qualify her to don the magnificent dresses and iconic status of General Leia Organa Solo?! In what universe? Was the person who came up with this idea, drunk at the time?
Princess/General Leia is an icon, she's an inspiration to many and with the passing of our beloved Carrie, her shoes are irreplaceable.
The problem arises that LucasFilm, Kathleen Kennedy have already made it clear that they will not be using a CGI Leia, this has already been discarded, but how to incorporate Leia, when Carrie is gone?
And although the next installment of the movie, would have focused on her story arch, it's still not completely impossible to have her be the focus and inspiration of the next installment, if it is done correctly.
Having her character die within the story can be a catapult for the story, the last hope of the resistance is gone, but the heroes who knew her can carry on her legacy. Something, of sorts...
Or how about her light inspiring the least likely character (ahem, Billie Lourd's character) to rise up and continue fighting for what Leia stood for. I think this would be an amazing honor and homage to her late mother, since, she would be better to carry the legacy, of Leia. But also not making her a second Leia, making her own unique character carry on the torch of the resistance.
I mean, something creative, and not putting another actress to BE LEIA.
Apparently, I'm not the only one who has been super vocal about not casting Streep for the role. The one and only Mark Hamill has also been, uber vocal against it. And quite frankly, I do not blame him. The scariest part is that this petition has gained traction, so it makes you think if that all those collective drunk weirdos who think this might be a good idea, may sway LucasFilm/Disney to green lit this disaster.
I sure hope not, because, at least for me, this would be the camel that breaks my back, and boycott the film. Granted, not the franchise, but the next installment.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mark-hamill-fans-petition-meryl-streep-be-cast-as-princess-leia-1100069
But replacing her with Meryl Streep (or for that matter, any other actress) is an injustice to Carrie Fisher's memory.
So, whomever decided this preposterous idea, I say to you "Dishonor on You, Dishonor on Your Cow!!" 😠😠😠ðŸ˜
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Yup, if you haven't heard this news by now, um, where have you been living?!
But in all seriousness, SAY WHAT?!
Whomever thought this was a good idea, NEEDS TO STOP.
Don't get me wrong, I love Meryl Streep just like the next person. I think she's a wonderful actress who can either play loving mothers, or downright b*tches. And this has NOTHING to do with her quality of work, or as a personal friend of the late Carrie Fisher, but SERIOUSLY?!
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Ok, we get it, she played a 'version' of Carrie Fisher in 'Postcards from the Edge' but how does this qualify her to don the magnificent dresses and iconic status of General Leia Organa Solo?! In what universe? Was the person who came up with this idea, drunk at the time?
Princess/General Leia is an icon, she's an inspiration to many and with the passing of our beloved Carrie, her shoes are irreplaceable.
The problem arises that LucasFilm, Kathleen Kennedy have already made it clear that they will not be using a CGI Leia, this has already been discarded, but how to incorporate Leia, when Carrie is gone?
And although the next installment of the movie, would have focused on her story arch, it's still not completely impossible to have her be the focus and inspiration of the next installment, if it is done correctly.
Having her character die within the story can be a catapult for the story, the last hope of the resistance is gone, but the heroes who knew her can carry on her legacy. Something, of sorts...
Or how about her light inspiring the least likely character (ahem, Billie Lourd's character) to rise up and continue fighting for what Leia stood for. I think this would be an amazing honor and homage to her late mother, since, she would be better to carry the legacy, of Leia. But also not making her a second Leia, making her own unique character carry on the torch of the resistance.
I mean, something creative, and not putting another actress to BE LEIA.
Apparently, I'm not the only one who has been super vocal about not casting Streep for the role. The one and only Mark Hamill has also been, uber vocal against it. And quite frankly, I do not blame him. The scariest part is that this petition has gained traction, so it makes you think if that all those collective drunk weirdos who think this might be a good idea, may sway LucasFilm/Disney to green lit this disaster.
I sure hope not, because, at least for me, this would be the camel that breaks my back, and boycott the film. Granted, not the franchise, but the next installment.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mark-hamill-fans-petition-meryl-streep-be-cast-as-princess-leia-1100069
But replacing her with Meryl Streep (or for that matter, any other actress) is an injustice to Carrie Fisher's memory.
So, whomever decided this preposterous idea, I say to you "Dishonor on You, Dishonor on Your Cow!!" 😠😠😠ðŸ˜
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