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I think the difference with STAR WARS is that it’s a film, and so there’s no way to avoid the fact that the actors in question age–in the same way there’s no way to avoid the fact that, sooner or later, Robert Downey Jr. isn’t going to play Iron Man any more, because he is either too old for the role or dead.

I would imagine that, given a choice, the STAR WARS people would rather have a young and fit and trim Luke and Leia and Han and so forth, but they have to work with what they’ve got. We are in a unique position, in that the Marvel characters do not age unless we want them to. So thirty years later, Spider-Man is essentially the same as he was when the original STAR WARS trilogy came out.

An even better example; Indiana Jones. We all want the guy from the first three films, rather than the one from the fourth, right?