Carrie Fisher would have led next `Star Wars` before her sudden death
(WorldNews Business)

LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Late actress Carrie Fisher was supposed to be the leading force of the ninth film in the `Star Wars` saga, plans derailed by her sudden death last year, Lucasfilm Ltd president Kathleen Kennedy said in an interview published on Wednesday. Kennedy told Vanity Fair that Fisher, who died in December at age 60 after suffering a heart attack, had finished filming the forthcoming eighth film `The Last Jedi` and was hoping her character, General Leia Organa, would be the central figure of Episode IX. `The minute she finished, she grabbed me and said, `I`d better be at...