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On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:05:40 -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 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.

Well it did all happen a long time ago in a galaxy far away :)


>>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.

If Bruce Willis can keep the Die Hard thing going I don't see why Han
Solo has to be young or dashing :)