For the last year the internet has
been on fire with rumors of who will and wont be in the next Star Wars
movie. Disney bought the franchise from George Lucas and has been
working to get another movie trilogy into theaters. Many of the original
cast has signed on to be in the movie.
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Jar Jar Binks to appear in next SW movie |
This week Disney announced that Jar Jar Binks will be in the next movie.
Jar Jar has been the most controversial Star Wars character since
Lucas changed the first movie to show Han Solo not shooting first. Binks
was a completely CGI figure in the newer trilogy. Many largely looked
at the figure as at best a comedy prop showcasing what Lucas could do
with CGI, not what he should do with CGI; at worse the character was
looked at as a potentially racist figure with a stereotypical sing song
African American dialect.
Binks portrayed a lost foolish creature in the first movie that
befriended young Anakin Skywalker (aka Darth Vader). In the second movie
Binks was elevated to a Galactic Senator and was used as a puppet by
Chancellor Palpetine to rest power from the Senate and to Palpatine, who
soon turned the Galaxy into his own Empire.