Billy Dee Williams, Kelly Marie Tran to reprise roles in Disney+'s Lego Star Wars holiday special
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If there’s just one thing that everyone could agree with each other about Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker—there wasn’t, but go with us here—it’s that, hey, it sure was nice to see our old pal Lando again. Sure, Billy Dee Williams didn’t get a whole lot to do with his appearance in Episode IX (besides give cover to the fact that Harrison Ford would also be making a return visit, and to have at least one interaction so seemingly random that it had to be clarified in the supplemental materials) but he seemed to be having a great time, anyway.
Maybe that explains why Williams has signed on to reprise his role as the smooth-talking gas planet administrator for Disney+’s upcoming The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special, joining another performer who also didn’t get a whole hell of a lot to do in Skywalker: Kelly Marie Tran. Per Entertainment Weekly, the pair will also be joined for the animated special by the inescapable Anthony Daniels, as well as several people who’ve made their space bones voicing beloved characters for the various Star Wars animated shows, including Matt Lanter, Tom Kane, James Arnold Taylor, and Clone Trooper extraordinaire Dee Bradley Baker.
Sadly, the special will apparently not be bringing back many of the favorites from the first Star Wars Holiday Special, despite the clear opportunity to apply the same technology once used to import the likenesses of the late Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher back into the movies to Bea Arthur’s Ackmena, the gruff but tender cantina bartender who sings her various patrons out the door in the infamous 1978 broadcast. It will still center around the Wookiee holiday of Life Day, although it’s not clear whether anyone will bust out the Life Orb or a bowl of delicious wookiee-ookiees.
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special airs on November 17 on Disney+
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“I’d love to play Legos with you but I have to study for my big star destroyers test offscreen” – leaked Rose dialogue
Will the first 20 minutes be in Wookie with no subtitles?
There damn well better be some weird cross species porn!
Here’s to hoping KMT’s appearance not basically a glorified cameo and all her lines are given to a character who has not been in any of the other two movies and is played by the director’s buddy like in Rise of Skywalker…
I hope they write her lines to deliberately trigger the incel manbabies who are so inexplicably enraged by her existence.
STARS ARE FOR BOYS
No worries. She’ll have lots of lines but they’ll have to all be cut, it’ll be Peter Mayhew’s fault somehow, and Lord knows they tried but it just couldn’t be salvaged. “But wasn’t that—?” Yes.
If there’s no elderly Wookies jacking off to VR porn, I’m not watching it.
Oh boy! I didn’t care for Rose much, but then the internet clarified that disliking her made me a bigot so now she’s my favorite despite her crushing lack of personality.
As long as you can see your way to angrily point the finger at Tran personally for any white-hot disappointment, and not the writer or director, I’m fairly sure you’ll be *just fine*, er, “Preposterous Whitey”.Just make sure you bring your sincere complaints to the internet loudly and immediately.
I didn’t like any part of the new Star Wars except for the Poe/Finn bromance and Mark Hamill in The Last Jedi.
The important question, though, is: Will Trevor Devall be back to reprise his role as Emperor Palpatine?