Clearing Up Some Star Wars Rumors

So I'm here to clear up a few of the rumors going around that involve the Star Wars movies that are being worked on right now.  One of these rumors that I'll address I actually talked about right here last week.  Let's get started...

Let's start with the one that I wrote about last week.  I reported that Carrie Fisher's brother Todd spoke with Lucasfilm and gave his blessing for them to use Carrie Fisher's Princess/General Leia character in Episode IX.  He told reporters that they were going to use her, but instead of using CGI to bring her character to life, like they did with Peter Cushing in Rogue One, they were going to use shots already done of Fisher while filming The Last Jedi.  Now, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy has weighed in and while talking with Good Morning America she said:

"Sadly, Carrie will not be in 'Nine', but we'll see a lot of her in 'Eight', which is great.  [Todd Fisher] was probably confused because we finished everything in ‘Eight,’ and Carrie is absolutely phenomenal in the movie. We’re so happy that we were able to complete shooting in the summer. Unfortunately, Carrie passed away.  By that time we were well underway with ‘Episode Nine’ in our thoughts — we had not written the script yet — but we’ve regrouped, we started over again in January,”

So we'll get to enjoy Carrie Fisher one last time as Princess/General Leia this December when Star Wars: The Last Jedi gets released.  Okay, on to the second thing that needs to be cleared up...

Bob Iger may be in charge of Disney, but he apparently doesn't know what's going on within his Lucasfilm company.  This past March, Iger was talking about the upcoming Han Solo spin-off movie and told everyone that the movie would take place roughly ten years before A New Hope, that we'd see how Han and Chewbacca meet, how Han won the Millennium Flacon, and the Han Solo wasn't Han's real name.  Wait...what?  Han Solo isn't his real name?!?

So enter Kathleen Kennedy...again...to clear everything up.  She said that she didn't think that Iger meant that Han Solo's name would change for the movie, but did say the following:

"I'm not sure that that's entirely what Bob meant. There's more to Han Solo's name, but it's not that it's not his name. It's obviously his name. It will always be his name."

So everyone out there thinking that it will be revealed that Han Solo's real name is Han Ren, reel it back in, people.  That ain't going to happen.  And Bob?  Stick to stock markets and portfolios and leave the movie side of things to the professionals.