Samuel L Jackson has revealed that he would love to reprise his role as Jedi master Mace Windu in the revived Star Wars franchise.
The series is set to return in 2015 with a trilogy directed by J J Abrams, with former cast members Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill rumoured to return.
Jackson’s character Windu was in episodes I to III and was last seen plunging from a window after a showdown with villain Senator Palpatine.
Jackson, 64, told the Standard: “The franchise is in very capable hands. I haven’t heard anything from J J but maybe they’ll bring some of us back to tie up some loose ends before they bring some of the new characters in. I hope so.”
The Pulp Fiction star, who was speaking as he launched men’s cancer awareness charity One For The Boys, also admitted he would like to make his West End stage debut. “If someone came to me with the right script, I would love to come over here and do a play,” he said. “I have talked about it with some people and hopefully it is something I can get round to doing.”
Jackson launched his charity after many of his friends and relatives were hit by cancer. He said: “It’s a new male cancer awareness campaign to change the male attitude towards the disease and encourage men to look for the symptoms, get screened, talk about it, and to, I guess, bring men into the cancer conversation.
“It’s a kind of thing men always make jokes about — you see comic things in the movies about a guy going to the doctor and worrying about getting a finger in the butt.
“People make a joke about it, but it’s a very serious thing and there seems to be some stigma attached to it.”
Jackson also does a lot of work for Alzheimer’s disease charities, after his mother developed the illness. He said he was planning to star in a movie of the novel The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey, which he hopes would raise awareness of the disease.
“I’d be playing an old guy who has Alzheimer’s who’s trying to straighten out his affairs before he passes,” he said. “He’s given an opportunity by taking some wonder drug that’s going to give him five days of clarity but will kill him after those five days.
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“I guess, doing that film, I will be able to work some things out for myself and hopefully create a character that audiences will look at and relate to.”
