I think it’s safe to say other than overtures being made to Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, casting on Star Wars: Episode VII is a while off yet. However one person from the prequel trilogy is throwing their hat in the ring, with Samuel L. Jackson telling E!Online that he’s really keen to come back as Mace Windu, even if he doesn’t know how.
As you probably remember, Windu died in the prequels, but Jackson is hoping they find a way around that. Asked his thoughts about new Star Wars, he says, “I’m not surprised but totally geeked by the idea of there being more Star Wars. It’s like, okay, Obi-Wan was dead when episode four started, so maybe everyone thinks I’m dead and we’ll find out what happened to Mace Windu. I can come back as one-armed or a one-handed Jedi that’s still around that didn’t actually die.”
He adds, “I could do that or be a ghost hologram. I don’t care. I just want to stay associated with the franchise. Not that I won’t because I’ve been in three of them… I just always loved it. I always loved the idea of it, that there’s this whole civilization out there somewhere else that’s just as much fun and different and diverse and wild as we are.”
We’ll have to wait and see in Jackson gets his wish when the film hits cinemas in 2015.