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.
[ GAAAG AHHHH ]
All they need to do is put her in a motion capture suit and motion capture mask then they can just CGI in a better looking Princess Leigh
Let’s see...Except for the original stars....
Domhnal Gleeson was ‘Bill Weasley’ in the last 2 ‘Harry Potter’ films.
Oscar Isaac was ‘Prince John’ in the Russell Crowe version of ‘Robin Hood’
John Boyega will be in the new ‘24’ coming in a few weeks.
Andy Serkis...yeah, we know him. As well as Max von Sydow.
Beyond that, I haven’t a clue who these other people are. As for Serkis...I wonder if they’re going to do to him what they usually do: put him in a Mo-Cap suit and digitize his character (’Gollum’, ‘Caesar’) I’ve only seen him ‘live’ in Peter Jackson’s unfortunate ‘King Kong’.
Mee-sa Jar-Jar Binks, Princess Jasmine.
"Luke,I am your drug connection."
Bob and Doug return in Star Wars 7?!!!!
There had BETTER ber a reference to Strange Brew in SW7...
Especially since Max Von Sydow is in it...
Right as you may be...he's dead Jim. Let it go!
=;^D
“...Special effects are still impressive and still look real. ...”
Good point! They do.
I still remember the old “Star Trek” series, where you could see the halo around the Enterprise as it moved through space. We’re a long way from primitive special effects.
My gram thought it was the coolest thing she’d ever seen up to that point. Glad I had the opportunity to take her to see it.
Hell, when she was a kid, movies were still SILENT and Black and white.
She’s gone now, in 1995. But she was an amazing gal, and she sure loved “her boy” (me - I was her only grandson).
“...if you ever seen that before....”
Yes, I have. Not pretty.
But she’d probably have the best cosmetic surgery money can buy. She’s probably got the bucks for it.
How about “’Just getting warmed up for the party.”
(personnal life motto)
Last I heard, JarJar was captured by a Russian Spetznaz unit somehwere in Karachi, and is currently being tortured by crazed homo Ewoks deported from Endor.
But he’s happy, so it’s ok...
“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry...you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGDdFuDwTZ8
They dare not. Every ST fan KNOWS Jar-Jar had no Force powers, not to mention it was JAR-JAR’S suggestion that Palpatine be granted ‘emergency powers’ while he was acting representative for Naboo. (See ST III if you don’t believe me.)
Yes...the Empire was all Jar-Jar’s fault!
Actually they stopped making original cast Trek movies long before any cast members died. And they didn’t even stop because they were old. It was part of the sequel process, all the spinoff shows were supposed to get movies, but by the time they’d done 4 non-TOS movies and the 4th spinoff show the audience had abandoned them. That’s what caused the reboot, the quest for a new audience.
Time is a bitch, ain’t it, Sarge?
Beats the hell out of ALL of us, eventually!
If that’s really her ...
AICN had pictures up in the last few days of Mark Hamill several months ago, and more recently. He’s lost at least 60lbs ...
Maybe I’m just a cranky old man anymore, but, today’s computer graphic special effects look so fake to me.
Maybe I was more in awe of the dated special effects of old shows and movies, such as the original Star Trek and Star Wars, because I wondered how they did the special effects. In any case, today’s computer graphics look so obviously fake to me. Also, I think they depend more today on dazzling us with special effects, rather than a good solid storyline.
The Senate sees this as a threat to their noble plans to de-industrialize Coruscant and relocate inhabitants to rural planets like Naboo, to enjoy a more healthy and sustainable lifestyle of community farming.
The evil brothers from Planet Koch must be stopped, by use of (the) Force if necessary!
;^)
In those days 1977 (ep V) those special effects in a movie theater looked and sounded impressive, it was much of the show.
By the third movie Return of Jedi VI 1993 it became obvious that the theme had run out of gas ('follow the Force Luke' GAG), the acting sucked, the lines were silly, it wasn't believable that they were twins and the ending of the first three movies with the Teddy Bear army victory did it for me. I thought 'WOW, this is stupid'.
I cant watch those now,
None of them are as young as they used to be. Same with SW the audience.
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