According to NYMag, Harrison Ford told Reddit he could totally beat up Mark Hamill. He also responds to the Most Important SW Question: Who shot first?
No idea how Ford would respond to the news in Grantland:
The almost-70-year-old Peter Mayhew is returning to Star Wars to play Chewbacca in J.J. Abrams’s Episode VII, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This is probably the first in a chain of events in which Harrison Ford gets confirmed (because Chewie without Han? C’mon), then Carrie Fisher (’cause Han without the one he said “I know” to? C’MON), then Mark Hamill (who was never not going to do these new movies). The casting might also explain why Mayhew shared all those nostalgic behind-the-scenes snapshots of the original trilogy in January…
ETA: Benedict Cumberbatch, howevs, says absolutely no way will he be in Episode VII. (Sorry, Crackerdaughter!)