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Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:38:14 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>
>>>On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:46:50 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> looked up from reading the entrails of
>>>>the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>
>>>>>On 24/03/2013 11:34 PM, Xocyll wrote:
>>>>>> Han not only didn't shoot first, he did a Tap number before shooting
>>>>>> back.
>>>>>
>>>>>This would for sure happen if he'd sold the rights to Bollywood instead 
>>>>>of Disney.
>>>>
>>>>Well it wouldn't have been Tap in that case. :)
>>>>
>>>>I now have a perverse desire to see a Bollywood Star Wars.
>>>
>>>Plot : Han Solo's work as a freelancer becomes more difficult as he
>>>finds himself underbid by offshore scrub labor :)
>>
>>Doesn't work so much. 
>>In the Star Wars universe he was primarily a smuggler who did some other
>>work to cover bills and even that was dependant on him having a very
>>fast ship.
>>
>>The cheap "offshore labor" probably has shit unreliable ships and
>>typical third world maintenance levels - not who I would be hiring to
>>deliver something that had to get there much less ride on the damn thing
>>myself.
>>
>>Bollywood:
>>Somehow I don't think Bollywood would view offshore the same way
>>Hollywood would.  And Han in a Bollywood production would be Indian too
>>- what exactly would be cheap offshore scrub labor in India?
>>
>>Somehow being Bollywood I'd think it more likely the plot would revolve
>>around some runaway princess who hires Han to fly her away to avoid an
>>arranged marriage and who then falls in love with him - the remainder of
>>the movie would be the trials and tribulations of them trying to stay
>>together - the princess and the commoner in the face of opposition from
>>both sides.
>
>I was thinking when you said Bollywood Star Wars, it  meant what it
>meant as written, staying true to the Star Wars universe (meaning
>nobody but Harrison Ford plays Han Solo on film).  

He's a bit long in the tooth these days.

>It sounds like you were thinking more along the lines of "This Being
>Bollywood Space Conflict Universe", which would be a non-Lucas
>approved cheap knock-off of Star Wars Universe, with lots of music,
>colorful costumes and traditional dance and AT-AT Walkers replaced by
>actual camels.  In this case, resemblence to the actual Star Wars
>franchise might start to become difficult to spot.  Like maybe Space
>Balls would seem spiritually closer.

I was thinking more a sort of Star Wars prequel (right before the events
of the original movie,) with the Bollywood singing and dancing, but
otherwise canon.  It could end with him landing on Tatooine, broken,
alone and looking for work to pay off Greedo.
They'd have to recast simply because Harrison is a bit ancient to play
the dashing young leading man these days.

Xocyll
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