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Carrie on forever – should Star Wars' Leia be allowed to die?

The death of Carrie Fisher didn’t end her role in the space saga and she’ll be back in Episode IX. But now may be the time for her to ‘drown in moonlight’

‘If you die when you’re fat, are you a fat ghost? Or do they go back to a flattering time?” so mused Carrie Fisher in the documentary Bright Lights, while exercising furiously in preparation for “Star Wars Episode Seven … ty Two”.

After the “force ghost” visitations of Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, imagining how she might appear as Leia Organa after her death clearly amused Fisher. On Friday, Lucasfilm announced that she will feature posthumously in Star Wars Episode IX, which prompts the question: when will Disney let Leia die?

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2K6xbx1

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