I'm of two minds. While CGM is an awesome actress who already knows martial arts and weapon handling (they had to train Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen for the epic Episode 3 finale fight), she's already a big star. We look at Mark Hamill and think "That's Luke Skywalker", and Carrie Fisher as "That's Princess Leia". But having CGM in Star Wars would be like "Oh, there's Hit-Girl as a Jedi!". Granted, while CGM is up-and-coming, her name isn't quite household yet, and it's likely she'd become 100% household with this role. If they want to make a new Star Wars one idea might be to have brand new actors so we can make new associations. Then again they had Samuel L Jackson in the prequel trilogy...
Also CGM might want to consider taking this role, since she seems to be getting typecasted as playing dark/depressed characters (Let Me In, Carrie, Kick-Ass, and in this upcoming film with Denzel Washington she's playing a prostitute).
Anyway, the hint she may be in it comes from
this article, which is dated recently. Clearly under NDA until the official cast list is revealed.
So, the new JJ Abrams Star Wars film. There are a few rumours flying about...
"(Smiling) Yeah, I mean I can’t really speak about it. It’s exciting and it would be a very cool thing to be a part of and I think JJ’s brilliant but we’ll see."
I’m going to take that as a hint.
"(Laughing) Yeah."