Jar Jar Binks: A New Movie

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Ahmed Best plays Jar Jar Binks in the new Star Wars movie. He says fans have been speculating about whether or not it will be a kids film. The character is being sold to audiences as an animated alien with no connection to real people, he says. "It feels like all of the elements of a perfect storm are beginning to form," Best says.

The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks is a new show from the TED Audio Collective, hosted by Dylan Marron.

It’s 1999, and sixteen years after its original release, a new Star Wars is finally coming. Fans have been camping out in front of theaters across the country just to be the first to see it. The beloved intergalactic saga is set to debut a slew of brand new characters, one of whom is a revolutionary CGI creation named Jar Jar Binks. Whispers begin to spread about big changes coming to the galaxy far, far away – and not everyone’s happy about it.

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