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Retroist's avatar

So many what-ifs. I think Williams would have been a great Princess Leia.

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Christian Lindke's avatar

I'm a big Cindy Williams fan. My wife and I watched these videos together last night and there's a moment in the longer collection of auditions where Kurt Russell and William Katt switch roles and I think it was a better fit. Kurt would have made a pretty good, if a little to old, Luke. I can't see anyone other than Harrison Ford as Han, but Katt hit the right emotional beats.

It's also interesting to see which actors are on and off book in the auditions.

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LYT's avatar

I don't recall Boucher ever being at Deadline. If he was, he wasn't the one in a position to do the hiring, because I know who was, and is.

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Christian Lindke's avatar

He's listed as Genre Editor on the site https://deadline.com/author/geoff-boucher/.

"Geoff, who spearheads Deadline's Hero Nation initiative, joined Deadline in 2018 from Entertainment Weekly, where he was a senior film writer. Before that he published more than 2,700 stories in the Los Angeles Times during a 21-year tenure at the newspaper, with stints covering crime, politics, the music industry and Hollywood. He also created the newspaper's award-winning Hero Complex brand, which began as a blog and spawned an annual film festival, an online talk show, and print magazine editions. He is also the author of "Two Badges," a true crime book."

Looking at the site though, his most recent post is 2020 so they might have pushed him aside too.

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Mikhail Skoptsov's avatar

Very interesting. Never heard about this before. Will look at the audition video when I have time.

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