Why was Samuel L. Jackson in a Star Wars film? No, seriously, what an awful casting choice. The guy has no range and doesn't fit the role of a jedi master at all. It's also extremely odd for Lucas to hire such a well known and typecast actor. Not to mention that Mace Windu doesn't get along with the rest of the narrative, it feels like a character from a different movie, which makes me think George wrote the script thinking specifically on Jackson. Had he said no, would Lucas had write off the character? probably.
Do you think George owed him a favour or did he maybe lose a bet?
Isn’t the reason his lightsaber is purple because he specifically requested it?
Kevin Cox
it's because he stored purple drank in the handle and it leaked out into the blade
Connor Morgan
Shit, is this true?
Wyatt Brown
It's been 20 years, faggot. Let it go.
Xavier Gutierrez
Samuel L Jackson was actually a huge Star Wars fan and was dying to be in the new films. That's why he's in there.
Sebastian Ramirez
SLJ is an honorary white so he gets to be in the film
Jordan Anderson
I'm still interested in the Tupac Mace Window timeline.
Justin Davis
So that's enough for Lucas?
Xavier Powell
That's exactly how it went down. He went on TFI Friday in '96 and shamelessly put the word out that he was a big Star Wars fan and desperately wanted to be in Lucas' new trilogy. Either Rick McCallum or Lucas called him and offered him a part.
when a big name actor wants to work for you for free/reduced price because they're interested in your film why would you refuse them?
Adam Butler
why wasn't he anakin?
Hunter Reyes
A SITH LAWD!?
Connor Diaz
>WHY ARE ALL THESE MOTHAFUCKIN SITH ON OUR MOTHAFUCKIN STAR WARS™ dropped right at that moment tBh
Jacob Phillips
Should have him fighting Count Dooku in AOTC. Not screechy yoda.
Daniel Gomez
I liked him, we could see that not all jedi were goody two shoes white knights like Obi-wan (not that Obi-wan being like that was bad). I think it gave personality to the jedi order. Showed us that the jedi REALLY come from all around the galaxy, and each one have their own views on the force. That's awesome. Samuel L Jackson is a cool guy
Jayden Reed
do we care? by the time Sam turned up, the star wars movies had jumped the shark with enough speed to break orbit, and then continued accelerating toward its inevitable, apocalyptic collision in AD 2749 with Sirius, the Dog Star.
I mean Mace Windoo is, what, in the second prequel, right? That's a solid 20 years since ewoks showed up. If it took TWENTY goddamn years for that "star wars is shit now" message to worm its way up your optical nerve and settle in your gray matter, you deserved this and worse. Motherfuckin Snakes On A Motherfuckin Millenium Falcon is, in all honesty, probably the least of your worries.
Lucas Gomez
Because he doesnt fit in the movie.
Michael Carter
TOO OLD. And Vader was already revealed to be white in episode VI. And well, his son was a blonde blue eyed kid
He has a couple of minutes of screen time in the first prequel.
Tyler Sullivan
Honestly, Vader should have been Black. Make Padme white and it would have been fine.
Juan White
>there are people on Yea Forums so young that they didn't know samuel l. jackson literally begged george lucas to put him in prequels when he heard they were being made
he's got quite a bit of screen time in aotc and especially rots
Evan Watson
>The guy has no range He's a negro and that's his job in every movie; being a negro.
Jackson Reyes
>asks to be a stromtrooper or something in the background just so he can tell he was in star Wars >comes to the costume fitting >they show him the Jedi robes
Yeah, I know, but the guy was asking if his first appearance was the second prequel
Jaxson Gonzalez
You must be an actual boomer to remember this shit happening. I bet the average age here is like 30 years old. At 13 not all kids were into gossip, only the faggy ones
Aiden Foster
Wow, what an unprofessional twat Lucas was. Star Wars fans deserve to see good story telling, he has no right to use his movie to do favors to his Hollywood buddies. If Disney did something like this you would be boycotting the movie.
Lucas and the prequels did far more damage to the Star Wars brand than whatever Disney could ever do, and as a real fan I'm glad he is not in charge of the franchise anymore.
Logan Jenkins
3/10 bait
Logan Gray
>opinion of some random guy
Matthew Harris
The urban market
Jeremiah Sanchez
TFI Friday was the shit. Evans is and always has been a massive twat but that show was great.
Blake Young
has he ever commented on the poor reception of the prequels? did he call a critic a motherfucker?
Joshua Sullivan
there was literally nothing wrong with this. he was a good addition and unique
>an actual boomer I mean, actual boomers were too old to give a damn about the FIRST trilogy, but whatever
Nicholas Nelson
We haven't seen the like of it since.
Joseph Moore
He is miscast because Mace Windu is a calm, reserved Jedi Master, but there's no reason to think that SLJ couldn't be appropriately cast in a Star Wars flick.
The especially puzzling thing is that Mace Windu is canonically one of the strongest light saber fighters in the galaxy. There was plenty of potential for them to allow SLJ to portray the loud, explosive "badass" that he typically excels at. For whatever reason, however, they just didn't...
Bentley Lee
This, fuck Lucas.
Brandon Bennett
He is an enormous SW fan and was a hot star in the late 90s. Natural fit.
