The general consensus among Star Wars fans when talking about the recently announced Star Wars: Episode VII seems to be that the movie’s best chance for success would be to distance itself from the storylines and characters of the previous six movies, and start fresh. Still, considering that they were not able to appear in the prequel trilogy, there’s no denying that many of those same fans would likely be excited to see their favorite characters make an appearance.

And, according to one “highly placed” source, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher are all open to returning for the movie, should there be need for Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia, of course. “Harrison is open to the idea of doing the movie and he’s upbeat about it, all three of them are,” the source said.

By now the world knows of Disney acquiring Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. After the deal was made, Disney announced that they wanted to release Episode 7 in 2015 and one Star Wars related film every two years after. Many created these wish lists of directors to helm Episode 7, but so few were to point out Matthew Vaughn‘s name. Now there is a rumor that Vaughn is the leading candidate to direct the film. While we have yet to receive confirmation of such news, Collider was able to uncover some interesting developments.

Of course there are just a handful of directors many wished were directing the film, but I find it hard to believe that Joss Whedon has the time to squeeze Episode 7 into his schedule when he is busy working on The Avengers 2. Same goes for any other A-list director that is busy working on a film that is set to be relased between 2014 and 2015.

Star Wars creator and master money-maker George Lucas stopped by The Daily Show recently to chat with Jon Stewart about his upcoming WWII passion project, Red Tails. Lucas has been working hard to get the movie made for over two decades now, but, as you’ll hear in the video, faced many hurdles in succeeding, including most major studios not wanting to take on a big budget risk with an almost entirely black cast and a movie they didn’t think could be marketed in foreign markets.

But as always, the conversation found its way to Star Wars as Lucas compared the two, and an interesting announcement was made. You can read more and check out the video of George Lucas on The Daily Show below.