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D23 Announces 2024 Disney Legends Awards!

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D23 announces the line up for the 2024 Disney Legends award Honorees including Star Wars icons Harrison Ford, Frank Oz and John Williams. This is just another reason to make the trek to Anaheim this August for D23.

After a weekend of can’t-miss programming, D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa, will conclude on Sunday, August 11, with the Disney Legends Awards Ceremony. The Disney Legends Award honors artists and visionaries throughout the company’s history who have pushed the envelope of creativity, challenged conventional wisdom, and broken the restraints of the status quo in search of new possibilities and excellence. The ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

“To be named a Disney Legend is the highest honor our company can bestow on anyone, reserved for those whose talent and achievement have earned them an enduring place in our history,” said Bob Iger, Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company. “The fourteen individuals to be honored as Disney Legends this year have each made extraordinary creative contributions across the worlds of Disney and we look forward to celebrating them at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event.”

This year’s honorees include Colleen Atwood, Angela Bassett, Martha Blanding, James L. Brooks, James Cameron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Miley Cyrus, Steve Ditko, Harrison Ford, Mark Henn, Frank Oz, Kelly Ripa, Joe Rohde, and John Williams. Ryan Seacrest, the host of American Top 40, as well as American Idol and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on ABC, will host the 2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony that will be filled with heartwarming tributes to each of the honorees, along with special guests, performances, and a legendary production like no other.

The Disney Legends Awards program is a 37-year tradition of The Walt Disney Company, which began when Fred MacMurray (The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, The Happiest Millionaire) was honored in 1987. The awards ceremony is just one of the many spectacular events fans can enjoy during the three-day D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in August 2024.

Introducing the 2024 Disney Legends!

Could Yoda Be in The Last Jedi?

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

With a new Star Wars movie coming, and Luke Skywalker starring in it, we can speculate that we will see ghost Jedi in the film.  Most prominently Yoda and Obi-Wan.  In a new Variety interview with Yoda voice actor Frank Oz, it seems like we might be getting at least Yoda in the film.

Frank Oz started his career as a puppeteer when he met Jim Henson at 19, and he went on to become a successful director of such comedic hits as “What About Bob?,” “In and Out,” and “Bowfinger.”  Of course Star Wars fans know him mostly as the guy who did the puppet work and voice for Yoda in five of the first six Star Wars films.

In the article, he didn’t say that he would be reprising his role as the great Jedi Master, but it’s the way he reacted to a specific question, that sort of gives it away.  Read the quote below and give us your thoughts as to whether he will be in the film or not…

There are reports that you might reprise Yoda in the new “Star Wars.”

I feel like I’m a prisoner at war here, and I can only give you my name, rank and serial number. To be true to the people who asked me, and they are kind of my family, I have to say I’ve been asked not to talk about it. I love Yoda. I would be happy to talk to you about it at the time they let me.

We know that Yoda was originally supposed to be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, thanks to an ET article.  So this kind of makes sense.

About Star Wars: The Last Jedi:

Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits North American theaters on December 15, 2017. Directed by Rian Johnson and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Benicio del Toro, Laura Dern, Jimmy Vee, and more! Music will be composed by John Williams.