Unnecessarily Recasting Star Wars: Leia Organa

Into the garbage chute, remakes!

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Jun 19, 2014 08:00 pm

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We saved the most-anticipated for last in our unnecessary Star Wars recasting series. There was no consensus on our Luke Skywalker picks, though a fair few of you agreed there should be a Star Wars musical from Joss Whedon on our Han Solo casting gallery. While no one could ever, ever top Carrie Fisher’s performance, here are seven women we think could come close.

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."