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Hairy loudmouth Russell Brand is petitioning the Star Wars developers for a bit-part in the future productions, telling the media world he’d do anything to land himself a part in the sequels. We can imagine him as a hairy Jar Jar Binks, ruining everything.
Brand told The Sun: “Why have they not invited me to participate? I’d do anything like that – to be a Jedi for the children. As yet unborn.”
Meanwhile, in much more sensible galaxy, another new name has been thrown down the exhaust pipe as a possible director for the first of the three new movies. Rumour has it that the relatively unknown Colin Trevorrow has had meetings with George Lucas, after Lucas was reportedly impressed by Trevorrow’s time travel comedy Safety Not Guaranteed.
Yes, George Lucas still has ambitions to make Star Wars funny. [Metro]
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Hell. No.
Not that twat…. I was hoping he’d have been arrested for rape by now.
He’s relatively harmless. Just do what I do and completely ignore him in the media, which thankfully is what the viewing audiences are doing to his movies.
I think you’ll find this quite apt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZn4Xv9MC6Y&list=PLCBD875A2C74835C8&index=1&feature=plpp_video
No. Just no.
Hopefully the ammount of STI’s he has collected over the years will catch up with him and he will have to be hospitalised for life, an excuse for him never to “act” again!
His chlamidichlorian is through the roof…
“It’s possible he was concieved by an STI.”
Oops, yeah I’ve just realised I put STI’s not STD’s. Doesn’t help that I was looking at cars this morning!
Eh? STI is perfectly valid, if a bit American. I was just paraphrasing Qui-Gon Jinn.
As long as he appears and then a second later gets Force-choked and chopped-up into little pieces by sith then I’m for it.
He could be named Jar Jar Bonks.
nice
So I’m the only person who finds him funny (admittedly only when playing Aldous Snow).
Lets be honest – he can’t be any worse the Jar Jar Binks, not matter how hard he tries to screw it up.
He’s quick and he’s clever, but his schtick of always saying something wildly inappropriate and jarring and a little bit “surreal” is running out of steam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PULy7fLyDRA
He tries to be too clever and show himself off as a wordsmith by using big words which just makes him (in my view) look pretentious.
I believe that Noel Fielding is genuinely quirky and naturally bonkers (just look at the mighty boosh) but when Russell Brand tries to be like that, he comes across as trying too hard.
Russel Brand is what happens when stupid people discover the thesaurus feature in Word
The last thing I saw him in was a documentary about On The Road where he quite literally danced on Jack Kerouac’s grave.
I think the hate on him is certainly overblown. The guy’s cleverer than the vast majority of celebrities we have to be exposed to…Internet people usually appreciate that.
I’d quite like to see him in a small role in Star Wars, so long as it was a more serious role. I think he’s capable of it.
No, I used to hate him until I actualy saw him do something, turns out he’s pretty damn funny.
If I was remaking the Star Wars films I would fully embrace people like Russell Brand, if only to inject a bit of character back into the franchise, a bit of humanity, a bit of ego and bravado. Russell Brand would bring that in spades. He could play a great space pirate, playboy space trader rouge character, much like Han Solo.
Seriously, try and describe any of the characters in the prequel movies without describing what they look like. You will find that impossible as there are no characters present in Episodes I to III to actually describe.
He’d end up in the comedy British cameo slot, like Ricky Gervais and Simon Pegg. Wacky double-takes in every scene. Maybe Brand, Gervais and Pegg should all feature in the remake’s inevitable homage to the Cantina scene?
Gervais could bring his own trumpet to blow.
But a lot of the characters in Star Wars have British accents. I don’t think there’s much chance of a “British cameo” at all.
He doesn’t have to be a “wacky” character, he could be a dry, sarcastic, fed up down-trodden type character, fed up of his tedious life space trading and dealing with pure scum on a daily basis.
OK maybe Brand isn’t an ideal match for Star Wars, but I’d rather he was in it than Liam Neeson’s forgettable, dull as dishwater character of Qui-Gon Jinn. Russell Brand hitting on a Princess or Senator would also be a damn sight more convincing than Hayden Christensen’s effort, although I feel that may have been more down to the script and lazy directing from Lucas.
Darth VDer the diseased. He’d drive a Twat-AT
A be a Dark Lord of the Syph.
*slow clap. Well done sir.
Did he apply to be James, James Bond too
heh