Well they already made Luke redundant, seeing Rey already wiped the floor with Kylo Ren after magically learning lightsaber combat in about 3 seconds, not to mention mind tricks, etc. Come episode VIII, Rey will probably be teaching Luke the ways of the Force.
Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street
Though I agree that a cash grab =/= balls
Real balls would have been to turn down the 100 million or whatever he gets from this and say **** you to Disney et al.
There seems to be a general assumption that Ford's death was really his own decision, and that the other creative arms of this film didn't want him to die, and instead would have preferred to keep him on for more $$$. I'm as cynical as the next guy, but I don't know if I agree. For the story, his death really works, and is going to create a genuine threat from Kylo that otherwise would not have been there. It paints him in a totally different light if he were just killing random characters no one knew or cared for. I'm going to give Disney the benefit of the doubt and assume that this was a decision made for the story, and not a decision made be a diva actor who wanted a single pay-day and then to walk off into the sunset (though it is very possible that Ford would not have agreed to anything else regardless of what the studio wanted).Indeed.
I disagree. This movie allowed Ford to do what he wanted to do with the character back in 1983 when he WAS wanting to (and did) walk away from all things SW. If he made 100 million from this movie then that just means he turned down 200 million more. Regardless of how much money has already been made I always respect actors decisions to turn down even more.
Like Keaton with regard to Batman Forever. Walking away from the lucrative franchise doesn't make him on par with someone who adopts a special needs child but it IS cool nonetheless.
