Corona | Coming Attractions

"Two things: While standing in a check-out line, I picked up a copy of the dreadful US magazine to pass the time. As I flipped through it, I saw a little article on Bijou Phillips. Remembering the Star Wars casting rumors, I scanned through it, and lo and behold, in the last paragraph it said 'he's up for the role of Luke Skywalker's mother in the upcoming Star Wars prequel'. Wow! I guess the Bijou rumor has some validity after all. And second, although I believe the rumor to be false, David Fincher got his first screen credit working on second unit stuff for Return of the Jedi." [Scoop reported by Diane.]

Hmm. To the best of the recollection of the Director of CA, Fincher was 27 when he helmed ALIEN 3. He did have a more-or-less wunderchilde career earlier, but if Fincher was involved with the filming of ROTJ, he'd have to be somewhere around 16 or 17 years old. Of course, this is just recollection of magazine articles remembered - and others out there may have a better (and more on-line) database than his.

And some emails have been arriving in the mailroom saying that Sansweet has denied the Bijou casting - but again, it hasn't been official.