Kurt Russell Auditioned for 'Star Wars'

Well said, Bob! I watch the audition and think, "I've got a bad feeling about this..."

They picked the right guy.

One more thing though, Lucas did thought about Han Solo "dies" in the Ewok battle scene. Yeah, tell me about it, the movie franchise would suck even more, but thanks to director Richard Marquaind in 'Jedi (hope get it right) didn't like the idea. Anyway, all Behind the Scenes in the SW trilogy is in the special features DVD.

Also, George Lucas originally created "Chewbacca" as a reptilian alien creature instead a warm-fuzzy giant. I do recalled actors like Richard Dreyfuss wanted to play as Luke Skywalker. Again, Tim Matherson as Indy. It's trivial when you look for "special Features DVD" especially for sci-fi fans, I enjoyed that very much.

Wow, I had no idea Han Solo was going to be a woman! Isn't it so hard to picture other actors in these iconic roles? I mean, Kurt Russell is one of my favorites, but this was so bad! I think Tom Selleck was very close to playing Indiana Jones, if you can believe that.

It did showed on the SW Ep;4-6 DVD on special features, in fact I do remember that George Lucas created originally the character Han Solo was indeed a woman, and he wanted to have a loving interest with Luke Skywalker instead the whole Han and Leia relationship in the movie. They also they tried to pick I think, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Matherson as Han Solo for the role.