Princess Leia and so much more.

yeah and she was supposed to be in Star Wars Episode VIII too but since she's dead now caused by an heart attack then they need to do 1 of 2 things:

#1 Find a replacement.
#2 Completly remove the role from Star Wars Episode VIII.

I'm not sure if they had already made enough of filming the movie otherwise there's a 3rd option too:
#3 Don't find a replacement and use the filming but then they need to find an acceptable way of how she died.

toutai wrote:yeah and she was supposed to be in Star Wars Episode VIII too but since she's dead now caused by an heart attack then they need to do 1 of 2 things:

#1 Find a replacement.
#2 Completly remove the role from Star Wars Episode VIII.

I'm not sure if they had already made enough of filming the movie otherwise there's a 3rd option too:
#3 Don't find a replacement and use the filming but then they need to find an acceptable way of how she died.

I just had a bit of research and found this:
"The next movie in the franchise is Star Wars: Episode VIII, which will be released on December 15th, 2017. Filming for this movie ended long before Fisher’s death, with production concluding in July 2016."

Sad news indeed RIP Princess Leia
BTW R2-D2 died earlier this year, here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Baker_(English_actor)

May the force be with you.