Posted on 04/29/2014 10:24:04 AM PDT by notsofastmyfriend
Luke. Leia. Han. Chewie. Artoo. Threepio. All present and accounted for as StarWars.com unveiled the official cast of "Star War: Episode VII" Tuesday.
Here's the full release:
The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.
Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.
Director J.J. Abrams says, "We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud."
Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer. The movie opens worldwide on Dec. 18, 2015.
While original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford had dropped hints that they would be reprising their roles for the new chapter, which takes place around 35 years after "Return of the Jedi," nothing was confirmed until today. The trio will be joined by longtime castmates Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca).
New additions include Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver, who recently appeared together in the Coen brothers' 2013 folk music drama "Inside Llewyn Davis." Also onboard: Andy Serkis (best known as Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), Domhnall Gleeson ("About Time",) and the legendary Max von Sydow ("The Exorcist"). Fresh faces John Boyega ("Attack the Block") and Daisy Ridley (who has appeared in just a handful of BBC dramas) round out the cast.
that’s an m-16 on full auto.
Maybe they can get Keith Richards to play Han Solo’s father.
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lol! Steven Tyler could play Solo’s mother.
Most of the Trek movies sucked unfortunately. It’s a wonder the franchise was popular enough to survive, at least until “Nemesis”.
My brief take on all
1, pretty boring, stupid plot that was a rehash of a TOS episode
2, good
3, not terrible but very underwhelming
4, Very enjoyable, but very stupid plot
5, Partial birth Abortion
6, good
Generations, feeble, ignoble end for Kirk and for Picard’s ship
First Contact, okay, best TNG movie by default
Insurrection, stupid pointless garbage
Nemesis, ditto, finally killed the franchise until the reboot movies which are fun action with crappy plots.
A DS9 movie would have actually been good probably, since the writers of that show weren’t worthless hacks.
Back to Star Wars, the Ewoks may have been stupid (that Stormtrooper Armor is sure useless!) but ROJ is piece of gold compared to the prequels. It’s amazing how Lucas tried so hard to destroy what he created.
I have no idea what’s up with the new ones, I wish I could say I’m optimistic.
I agree 100% with your summaries of the Star Trek movies. Some good, some bad, some enjoyable, some brutal.
“V’Ger” was so f*****g gay. And the Nichelle Nichols striptease in 5 was akin to watch a partial birth abortion being performed - EGADS!!!
“...It’s amazing how Lucas tried so hard to destroy what he created.”
He doesn’t care; he got paid.
“...I wish I could say I’m optimistic.”
Me too, but I’m not. I can smell the poop from here.
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Is that where Khent disappeared to?
“Wrath of Khan
Best of all of them...”
Agreed.
OFFENSIVE!!!
My ‘date’ for “Star Wars” is dead.
My ‘date’ for “The Empire Strikes Back” is dead.
Yes, in that particular scene. She also used a flamethrower, bomb, and RPG in other scenes while trying to kill Jake.
jj abrams = non-stop lensflares and stupidity. This’ll be less boring than LucasStarWars but probably even dumber than I, II & III.
I remember going to the drive-in to see a double bill of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and “Star Wars” with my mother and grandmother.
What movie is that? I don’t think I’ve seen it lol.
Star Wars original (ep IV) I seen so many times over years its just boring to me.
Jedi strikes me as pathetic for reasons I listed earlier.
Strikes back is no piece of art but I haven’t seen it too many times and I like the novelty of it compared to the others.
They had to write the animal attack on Luke in that script to explain the scar on Hamill’s face in that movie, it was an auto-accident
DS9 sucked until they had to compete against B5.
It's a little more complex than that. The idea of having the original characters played by younger actors was first proposed in 1991, when the actors were pushing 60 (Nimoy and Shatner are now in their 80s). They wanted to do a "Starfleet Academy" movie where the original actors would have cameo apperances talking to a group of graduating cadets, and then it would flashback to young Kirk, young Spock, etc., and pass the torch to the new actors. The idea was vetoed and we got Star Trek VI instead. Then, the Next Generation ended its run on TV and the idea was THEY would succeed the original cast, thus we got the disappointing "crossover" movie Star Trek Generations (which basically gave older Scotty and Chekov nothing more than glorified cameos), and there was expected to be a long line of Next Generation movies but they kept declining in revenue so it came to a screeching halt after 4 movies. Then they finally fired Rick Berman, and the result was they decided to an "in universe reboot" in 2009 and come up with "Evil Romulan from the future goes back in time and alters the past" premise, so they could hire younger actors but not have to stick to the established chronology of their back stories. I think it was a good idea given that they were basically painted into a corner, but unfortunately they squandered the opportunity they had to come up with some really interesting new stories.
>> First Contact, okay, best TNG movie by default <<
I agree with you (only because the other TNG movies were worse, although I thought Nemesis was OKAY and not the worthless garbage people made it out to be). Still, Field hates FC with a passion so he's not gonna like that comment. ;-)
>>> Back to Star Wars, the Ewoks may have been stupid (that Stormtrooper Armor is sure useless!) but ROJ is piece of gold compared to the prequels. It’s amazing how Lucas tried so hard to destroy what he created. <<<
It's true, I grew up on the original Star Wars trilogy and ROJ was considered the weakest of the three (especially pandering to kids with the goofy Ewoks), but it looks like a masterpiece next to the prequel films. The weird thing is even the most ardent Star Wars fanboy will now admits the prequels sucked, but Lucas KEEPS making money with them anyway. He re-released "The Phantom Menance" in 3D a few years back and the fanboys flocked to see it in theaters, as if 3D would somehow magically make Jar Jar Binks into a good character. It sickens me that people continue to reward Hollywood for films they know are lousy. I bet the Blu-Ray editions of those movies made lots of $$$ too. No wonder they have no motivation to do better.
>>> I have no idea what’s up with the new ones, I wish I could say I’m optimistic. <<<
J.J. Abrams has basically turned Star Trek INTO Star Wars (the most recent Star Trek film was certainly the most "Star Warsish" of the 12, and mostly reliabed on one-liners, fist fights, and shoot 'em chase scenes, so I'm actually glad he's defected to Star Wars and can go mess with that universe instead of screwing with Star Trek anymore. I imagine anything would be better than the Star Wars prequels, but given what Abrams has done lately, I'm not so sure anymore.
Star Trek also has new writers that have been hired for the 50th anniversary movie in 2016, so there's hope. I read the other day that the guy who wrote the last movie (Bob Orci, an insane liberal 9/11 truther) wants to DIRECT the next Star Trek movie now. My response would be HELL NO. The sad thing is Hollywood will continue to promote people who gives us mediocre crap as long as it makes money. Certainly Orci isn't entirely to blame for Star Trek Into Darkness, but he shares a big chunk of the blame for giving us a generic action movie and Khan In Name Only after having four years to come up with a good story. He shouldn't be rewarded after what happened.
>> Me too, but I’m not. I can smell the poop from here. <<
A similar situtation is going on with DC comics now. They're struggling to keep up with Marvel's endless Superhero movies. DC's "rebooted" Superman movie from summer 2013 got lousy reviews. It was basically a lazy remake of Superman II turned into a Transformers type movie with fake video-game like fighting sequences. So what does Warner Bros. do? Keep the same writer and directing team, and give them the go-ahead to make a "Batman vs. Superman" movie. I can already smell the cr@p from here. I got bored with the Nolan Batman movies, but I fear these new films will be so bad than the Nolan films will honestly look the masterpieces that their deluded fanboys claim they are.
Case in point: "Avatar" vs "District9". D9 was dirt cheap compared to Avatar and it pwned Avatar. Far less CGI in D9 and a good adult story vs Cameron's commielibenvirowacko entirely derivative aqnd predictable wet dream.
Did you happen to see it at the Chinese in Hollywood?
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