Date 30/03/2018 - News People
A subset of Star Wars fans are petitioning for three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep to be cast as the new Leia in Star Wars: Episode IX. Actress Carrie Fisher, who portrayed the iconic princess-turned-general across five Star Wars films, died in December 2016 at age 60. Fisher's death left studio Lucasfilm with a major problem heading into Episode IX, which heads in front of cameras this summer steered once again by The Force Awakens director J.J. "As the fans of STAR WARS and Carrie Fisher, we really want Leia to shine in Episode IX and we certainly do not want her to be written out of the film abruptly without a reasonable plot," the petition continues.
