It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.
Do they not understand the idea of original content? Have we gone so far down the corporate IP hole that people have forgotten all these franchises started from an original idea?
Star Trek figured this out decades ago. Hell all of the original Star Wars spinoffs figured this out.