Star Wars Episode VII: Five J.J. Abrams Actors We Want to See

While new reports are suggesting that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford will return as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo in J.J. Abrams’s forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII, they will reportedly not be the lead characters.With that in mind, we had to think–what actors, who have an existing relationship with J.J. Abrams, would we like to see in the films?He’s worked on a number of projects with some of the best casts in Hollywood, and so there’s quite a wealth of options. Who are our picks? Well, not Tom Cruise and Laurence Fishburne, certainly–we want to see some of these characters recur in the Star Wars universe, after all.(Also, it never occurred to us until we started looking over a cast list how much of what we want to see in Star Wars is the humanity, the humor and the cleverness, as opposed to the big explosions and the big effects that overwhelmed the prequels.)Read on…but first consider this: after rumors that he was being courted to direct it, wouldn’t it be kinda neat to see Ben Affleck (whose wife was the star of Abrams’s Alias and who starred in the Abrams-produced Armageddon) appear in a brief role? Kevin Smith would be crazy with jealousy.