According to today's Internet Movie Database's "Movie/TV News" page:
Star Wars movie-maker George Lucas is insisting all the characters in the new sci-fi sequel sport shaggy seventies-style haircuts - so they look like the stars of the original films. Star Wars: Episode III actors Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, currently shooting the final installment on set in New South Wales, Australia, are showing off unfashionable "mullet" hairdos - because they were trendy when the first Star Wars film was made in 1977. An onset source explains, "The idea is that it will lead seamlessly on to the original Star Wars movie, starring Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, which was filmed in the Seventies and had certain hallmarks of that era. It's a bid for continuity. They are trying to capture the shaggy look that was popular then."No good can come of this, George. Turn back before the dark side consumes you! Mullets of the id! Mullets of the id! (Oh wait, wrong movie.)
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Article comments
1 - Tim Hall
Now I've got this image in my head of Jar Jar Binks in a mullet. Ed, you'll suffer for this!
2 - Michael Croft
I expected him to insert digital mullets.
How come hair fashions can't change between ep. II (no whiney farmboy) and ep.IV: whiney farmboy is ready for flight school?
3 - Alex
Wow..... so yeah Im posting in this super old topic but this is too good to pass up. My friends and I just finsihed making a star wars parody. Its called Mullet Wars: The Phantom Mullet. Totally unrelated, but still funny to see this topic. It's a funny, I have to admit. If you love and or hate mullets, you will like it. Check it out ... http://hoolumzproductions.com goto projects then mullet wars