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Want To See Lando Calrissian In Star Wars VII? Billy Dee Williams Says Tell Disney!
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Want To See Lando Calrissian In Star Wars IV?  Billy Dee Williams Wants You To Tell Disney!

The last several months have been up and down with movie rumors for the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams. Among the most popular and seemingly solid rumors, is that several key cast members from the Original Trilogy will be reappearing in some scope. These, of course, are Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, and Harrison Ford as Han Solo. But what about everyone’s favorite gambling scoundrel, Lando Calrissian, as played by Billy Dee Williams?

According to a Facebook message, Billy Dee Williams states that he has not up till now been contacted by anyone. In the recent flurry of rumors, it was said that George Lucas had met with Hamill, Fisher, Ford, and Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) over several lunch meetings in 2012 to chew over the Sequel Trilogy. Williams, it seems, was not a part of these meetings, which would indicate that there may be no plans to have Lando even make a cameo in the upcoming trilogy.

In response, Billy Dee Williams has called upon his fans to tell Disney and Lucasfilm if they would like to see Lando return. Here’s the full message:

I am in the dark with the actual plans that Disney and Lucasfilm have for the future of the Star Wars universe. I have heard the same rumors that the fans heard, that a new trilogy is being made, that spin-offs may be made, that we all [Mark, Carrie, Harrison and myself] are going to be reprising our roles in these projects.

At this point in time, nothing has been confirmed about my participation and I have signed no contracts. I assure you that I would absolutely love to reprise my role of Lando Calrissian. He’s a character that I took great pride in creating on screen and have continued to be a part of when providing his voice for video games, the new Star Wars Detours cartoon and for various episodes of Robot Chicken, among other projects.

It’s a lot of fun to keep Lando alive and I am eager to do it again, on film, when I get the call. I thank all the fans out there for their continued support and I hope to get the call from Disney and Lucasfilm real soon, until then, may the force be with us all!

~ Billy Dee Williams

The post has generated some passionate comments from Billy Dee’s fans, as well as several blog posts across the interwebtubes calling for Lando to be in the Sequel Trilogy. There’s also a Facebook Page generating support for the return of Calrissian as well.

The moderators of the Billy Dee Williams Facebook page also included:

The best way to ensure that Billy Dee Williams will be in the new film is to FB, TWITTER, BLOG and tell Disney and Lucasfilm that you want to see LANDO again! Hopefully JJ will read the wishes and write in LANDO!

So, do you want Lando back in the Sequel Trilogy? Make sure you make some commotion about it on the interwebs to help Billy Dee Williams!

[Source: Facebook]

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4 Comments »

  1. Hell No!!!! Same goes for Han, Chewy etc.
    And I definitively don’t want to see no kids of those guys hamming it up.

    If they want to erase the cheese of the last 3 movies, then don’t use those cheap tricks.

    Comment by Midas68 — April 16, 2013 @ 12:23 am

  2. I would love to see Lando played by Billy Dee Williams in the next trilogy of Star Wars! I don’t understand why so many Star Wars fan have complain about the return of old faces in the upcoming star wars trilogy, I don’t understand because they are bringing back loved chracters not hated like jar jar binks. So hell ya I would love to see Billy come back as Lando, and “May the Force be with you all”!

    Comment by cooldude1 — April 16, 2013 @ 11:15 am

  3. I might actually write Disney to ask if they can take him OUT of the original trilogy. Sorry, but Billy Dee was one of the biggest lumps of cheese in an otherwise almost untarnished trilogy. They might as well have had David Hasselhoff play Lando Calrissian.

    Comment by lucidhysteria — April 16, 2013 @ 2:13 pm

  4. ? mad

    Comment by Ronnie Coleman — May 19, 2013 @ 10:35 am

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