# Re-Cast the Star Wars Trilogy! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 26, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387 "2000-10-26T08:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/21 "2000-10-27T18:35:08Z")
Mick Fleetwood as the Emperor? He’s pretty creepy-looking… ---
**Author:** ![Sarastro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sarastro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarastro)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/22 "2000-10-27T18:58:37Z")
Politicians as Star Wars Chararacters…How come no one thought of Alan Keyes as Lando? Maybe Keyes is a little too slimy. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/23 "2000-10-27T19:13:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bouv \* > \*\*I don’t know if this is sacrilege, but Star Trek characters as Star Wars characters: > > The Emperor: Khan! (who else?) > Darth Vader: ? help on this please > \*\* Darth Vader: Kirk: Luke…Iamyour…father! The Emperor: Khan isn’t sleazy enough. I’d go for Martok, the Klngon Emperor. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/24 "2000-10-27T19:15:27Z")
Not Martok, Galron. \>hides face from Trek fans everywhere\< ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/25 "2000-10-28T03:01:06Z")
Robot Arm wrote: > [@](#): > > Yoda - Michigan J. Frog Damn you! Now I’ll never get that image of Yoda singing “Hello my baby, hello my honey” out of my head! ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/26 "2000-10-28T06:29:59Z")
Actually, I’ve met Martok and Gowron (or at least the charming actors who played them) and I can’t think of them as slimy anymore. They’re just nice guys… Maybe Khan should be Vader, and Shatner could be the Emperor (“oh, I’m…afraidthe…shield-will-be…quite operationalwhenyourfriends…arrive!”) How about… Luke: Errol Flynn Leia: Maureen O’Sullivan Han: John Wayne Lando: Clark Gable Vader: Bela Lugosi C3PO: Stan Laurel R2D2: Oliver Hardy Emperor: Basil Rathbone Obi-Wan Kenobi: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Stormtroopers: Keystone Kops Whee! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/27 "2000-10-29T04:35:27Z")
Kilt-wearin’ man wrote: > [@](#): > > Han: John Wayne > Lando: Clark Gable You’ve got to be kidding! Han Solo has “Rhett Butler” written all **over** him! You’ve **gotta** cast Clark Gable as Han Solo, if you cast him as anything at all. ---
**Author:** ![danmick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@danmick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danmick)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/28 "2000-10-30T04:25:42Z")
Jabba the Hut as interpreted by… Polkaroo! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/29 "2000-10-30T04:43:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > Damn you! Now I’ll never get that image of Yoda singing “Hello my baby, hello my honey” out of my head! Try to replace it with an image of Michigan J. Frog singing “Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is.” ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/30 "2000-10-30T06:06:16Z")
Luke Skywalker - Luke Skywalker (A jedi’s gotta do what a Jedi’s gotta do, and there’s a city in the clouds where dey sweatin’ my crew.) Leia - Missy Elliot (You call dis a rescue? Shoot, I oughta smack you - you don’t know what to do gimme that blaster, foo.) Aunt Beru - Queen Latifah (Luke, Luke, it’s time for dinner here on tattoine. Come and eat yo chicken and collard greens.) Uncle Owen - Grandmaster Flash - (Yo Luke. Why ya gotta be farma hata? Ya gonna end up just like Darth Vada). R2 - Bushwick Bill C3PO - Snoop Dogg (You got 30,000 asteroids with Tie fighters gettin’ it on, and our chances o’ makin it are 6.934234 billion to one…) Jawas - Puff Daddy and the family (saying the lines of the other characters of the universe to different beat.) OB1 - Dr. Dre (Luke…Use the force, G. Run to Dagobah, find that pipe hittin niggah Yoda.) Storm troopers - Eminem (no explanation needed.) Han - Coolio (Fly, fly tha Falcon goes by, does the Kessel run in tha blink of an eye.) Chewie - DMX Greedo - Violent J (Jabba want’s his milthoofalcon money, milthoofalcou! Hook me up and I’ll blow, I’ll let you go, when he ask if I seen you, I just won’t know.) Jabba - Notorious BIG (They won’t be no bargain, G, I like that Han motherfucka just where he be. My palace is paid for, no sail barge payment, I got a Rancor waitin’ to eat you chillin’ in my basement…) Vader - Ice Cube (Don’t fuck with me, motherfucka! I be here to see why this ride aint goin. The man is comin down here to bust a cap in you ass.) Boba Fett - Tupac (What if he dies? I don’t get paid if he don’t survive.) ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/31 "2000-10-30T06:53:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*Kilt-wearin’ man wrote: > > > [@](#): > > > > Han: John Wayne > > Lando: Clark Gable > > You’ve got to be kidding! Han Solo has “Rhett Butler” written all **over** him! You’ve **gotta** cast Clark Gable as Han Solo, if you cast him as anything at all. \*\* I toyed with Clark Gable as Han (“Scoundrel? I like the sound of that…”) but I figured as smarmy as Rhett Butler was, Lando just seemed to fit him better. Besides, the Duke had that whole “when in doubt, blast 'em” philosophy going on that Han lived by. Oh, and I almost forgot - Johnny Weismuller as Chewbaaca. Just watch for the Tarzan yell in Return of the Jedi and you’ll see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387/32 "2000-10-30T16:13:20Z")
A Simpsons Star Wars Luke Skywalker – Bart Princess Leia - Lisa Han Solo - Milhouse R2D2 – Marge C3P0 – Homer Chewbaaca - Krusty (Ugggghhhhh) Lando Calrissian – Apu Obi Wan Kenobi – Ned Flanders (Use the fiddly-fiddly force, Luke!) Yoda – Grandpa Simpson (When your age I was, the force we didn’t have.) The Emperor – Mr. Burns Grand Moff Tarkin – Principal Skinner Darth Vader – Chief Wiggum Young Anakin – Ralph Wiggum (I’m gonna be a Jedi…I’m special!) Jabba the Hut – Barney [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-cast-the-star-wars-trilogy/38387.md?page=1)