It looks like Glee's next guest star will be someone we all know: One of the most loyal, lovable, incomprehensible, and overgrown dog-like creatures in cinematic history. No, not Gwyneth Paltrow! Chewbacca!
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Matthew Morrison, who plays Mr. Schue on Glee, confirmed on Jimmy Kimmel Live that Chewbacca will be the guest star for the show's Christmas episode. So then, is Glee is opening up its' universe to science fiction characters? If Chewbacca can drop in for Christmas, can the Men in Black come by for Easter? Will Doctor Who show up for Columbus Day? And won't Valentine's Day be special with the Tremors from the movie Tremors?
Turn around bright eyyyes.
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Morrison also mentioned that the Glee producers got in touch with George Lucas to see if, you know, Chewbacca was available, and Lucas was kind enough to fly in the official guy who plays Chewbacca all the way from Northern California. I don't know what the ceremony to crown the official Chewbacca looks like, but I bet they don't give him a medal.
From right: Chewbacca, haters.
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Now, hold on. Can we talk about this concept of an official Chewbacca for a minute? The man who played Chewbacca in every one of his on-screen performances, Peter Mayhew, is still alive. He literally is Chewbacca. What did he do to no longer be the official Chewbacca? It's not like he caught a case of being short. He's Chewbacca. The guy is Chewbacca. Like, he played Chewbacca! That's what makes someone Chewbacca!
Pictured: Chewbacca. How is this even a thing.
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Someone pick a direction. Either it doesn't matter who's in the goddamn Chewbacca suit and Glee can get a tall homeless man and just send him into wardrobe or it does matter and if you're flying someone out to be Chewbacca you f*cking get Chewbacca. Either one is fine, but half-solutions are never good. It's what makes me mad about red-orange crayons. Don't ride the fence. Either be red or be orange.
The most cowardly of colors.
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Anyhow. Chewbacca on Glee. Did George Lucas get his science fiction in your heavy-handed musical dramedy? Or did Glee get it's heavy-handed teen dramedy in your science fiction? Complain about one or the other in the comments!
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