The official Star Wars page just dropped this video in facebook. Look like Disney got NASA to announce the news for “Star Wars 7”: cast, plot, and title. Even though the video doesn’t confirm that May the 4th will be about “Star Wars 7”, the R2D2 appearance in the video kind of hints at it.
Like most people, I think May 4th is the day they will reveal all for “Star Wars 7”. May the 4th is just 6 days away.
Kev
Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) tweeted that on her twitter page. Is that a hint that she’s in London filming “Star Wars Episode VII” along with Mark and Harrison? What a tease…
Kev
Seems like Star Wars Episode 7 has already started filming. The crew have already begun filming at some desert which looks to be the Tatooine set. Every Star Wars fan should know by now that Tatooine was the home planet of Luke Skywalker, where he was born and where he grew up on. So the leaked photos is a pretty clear hint we may see the return of Luke Skywalker. Luke returned to Tatooine after the events of “Return of the Jedi”? Look like the droids returned there too ’cause you can see a group of men trying to move a very large object which I think is part of C3Po’s escape pod. Then you see a photo of the AT Walker that we once saw in “Empire Strike Back”.
See the photos here:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/133851-Star-Wars-Episode-VII-Leaked-Photos-from-Tatooine
Look like they’ll do justice with Star Wars after all, maybe. Look like this is gonna be a Star Wars movie that fans were hoping for and that geeks will be drooling over for sure.
When will we know the title of this movie, the plot and the casting? I’m hoping on Star Wars day, May the 4th… they will reveal all for “Star Wars 7”.
Please don’t fuck this up, JJ. Please!
Kev
Like most Star Wars fans, I too am hoping they make “Star Wars 7” a really good film. I’m still a little skeptical of JJ directing/writing it due to the disaster of “Star Trek Into Darkness” but since Lawrence Kasdan helped JJ with the writing… maybe that will help. I’m hoping the film will be pretty dark and intense. Sort of like, “Empire Strike Back”. In my opinion, I think “Empire Strike Back” was the best Star Wars film. “Star Wars 7” will probably end up being an introduction of a new trilogy. Introducing a new plot and new characters. I’m sure the Empire will still be around after 30 years of the events of Vader/Palpatine in “Return of the Jedi”.
In JJ’s Star Wars, I’m sure everything might be a little different than what George Lucas have done to them. I’m sure JJ will have some of George Lucas’s style in the new film but I’m also sure JJ will have some of his own style in it as well. There will probably be new spaceships for the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. I’m sure we’ll have different laser effects for the laser guns on spaceships and hand weapons. I’m also sure the Jedi lightsabers will be different than Lucas’s version. I’m sure there will still be stormtroopers but JJ will for sure give the stormtroopers a new armor and new design.
Keep in mind that the new trilogy will be taken place 30 years after the original trilogy so there’s probably gonna be all new technology in the film. With today’s technology in film making, everything’s gonna be different.
I think I know why they had to set “Star Wars Episode 7” 30 years after “Return of the Jedi”. I mean, think about it, right? It helps explains the aging of Han, Leia and Luke since Harrison, Carrie, and Mark are older now. So there’s definitely a 100% chance that they are in.
I’m sure “Star Wars 7” will keep the opening Star Wars crawl with the three paragraphs crawling into space with the main theme playing. I’m sure John Williams will kill it with the score for the rest of the movie.
I hope this film will be action-packed. It probably will be. I also hope this film will have the same feeling as the original trilogy totally ignoring the prequels.
We had to suffer through three bad prequels thanks to George Lucas so Star Wars needs to be GREAT again. I pray they do a good job with this one.
I have no idea what the plot is going to be yet but since this is focused on younger characters and Adam Driver’s villain character will be similar to Darth Vader, I think I might be figuring it out a little bit. I think what the plot may be is that after the events of Vader/Palpatine in the last film, there is still Empire around and they vow to get revenge at Luke Skywalker. Adam Driver’s villain character (who ever that may be) is desperate to find Luke (that’s why Hammill have to be back) and wants to destroy Luke after what he did to Vader/Palpatine. The Empire is still after Luke (who would be a Jedi by now) in the film so he has other young Jedi hopefuls to help him and protect him.
Only thing though, we had this helping to train young kids hoping to be Jedi’s plot too many times. They had that plot idea in the original trilogy and in the prequels so no need to rehash that idea again. I think it’s preferably that the kids are already Jedi’s. That would make it more interesting. Young Jedi’s help fight off the Empire with Luke’s help.
Will there be a new death star in the film? Possibly but the Rebel Alliance will want to destroy the death star again so no need to rehash that plot idea as well.
In the new film, I’m sure we’ll get plenty of space battles and lightsaber combat. They’ll make the film exciting and fun, I hope.
Every time I go see a Star Wars film, the audience will stand up and cheer a lot. We need to feel that with this film so hopefully they give us a reason to stand up and cheer again.
Will Ben Kenobi the ghost come back in this one? I’m not sure… it’s going to be hard to get Sir Alec Guiness’s voice-overs but I’m sure they’ll figure something out. They’ll give Ben Kenobi a cameo of some sort. Yoda will probably return but as a ghost this time.
It’ll be interesting to see how they pull this off. As you know, JJ Abrams is obsessed with secrecy. He is secretive with all of his projects and he’ll do the same with Star Wars. Reveal a little bit at a time. Once again, I pray they do a good job. I wanna like Star Wars again ’cause I haven’t been liking it for a long while.
Kev
Whenever Harrison Ford gets confirmed to reprise his role as Han Solo for “Star Wars 7”, I have a feeling a lot of people are gonna criticize his age for this. They always criticize Harrison’s age. People did it when he agreed to return to Indiana Jones, “The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” movie. I don’t think age is a problem when it comes to Star Wars. I think Harrison can handle action scenes just fine ’cause remember Harrison was in “The Expendables 3” film and I’m pretty sure he’ll do some action scenes in that film. Harrison is still doing his own stunts in other action films. On top of that, there have been other Star Wars actors who were aging at the time doing their own stunts: Sir Alec Guinness, Christopher Lee, etc. They were doing some pretty physical stuff too!
I know the new Star Wars films are going to focus on young characters as the main stars but Han Solo is probably gonna end up helping the young Jedi’s out in some way. Will we see the return of the Millennium Falcon? I’m hoping for that too.
Harrison maybe getting older but I’m pretty sure he’ll still kill it as the Han Solo role. I’m sure we’ll still get the same wisecracking humorous smuggler like he was in the original trilogy — the only difference is that he’ll be a little older. Other questions: Will Han be married to Leia by this time? Will they have kids together? From the looks of things… it’s looking like the new film may focus on a family.
Even though Harrison, Carrie and Mark haven’t played these characters in many years… I’m sure all three will kill it. They’ll do a great job, I’m sure. When will we ever get a confirmation on whether or not they’ll be in? I think they just did confirm it by saying “familiar faces”, they just didn’t name names yet. They will soon, though.
Kev
Disney and Lucasfilm announced they will start filming “Star Wars Episode 7” in May later this year. They don’t reveal the title and the plot yet but they finally confirm the news that “Episode 7” will be taken place after “Return of the Jedi”. Which is no surprise ’cause everybody already knew that. Even though they don’t announce any casting they do say; however, they will focus on younger casting and “some familiar faces”. When they say “familiar faces”, that means we’re definitely going to see some characters from the earlier Star Wars films so that’s a definite hint that Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker maybe returning. Maybe other familiar Star Wars characters too: Lando, C3p0, R2, Chewbacca, Yoda, Ben Kenobi, etc. Whatever they do, though, I hope they don’t bring back Jar Jar, ha ha!
Even though the new casting have not been announced there have been some names leaked to the web already like Lupita Nyong’o, Adam Driver, Jesse Plemons, etc. They’ll probably get confirmed soon.
I really hope they make this a great film and praying this won’t be as bad as the prequels. It seems that JJ is a huge Star Wars fan like the rest of us so he would know what the fans would want. There’s gonna be tons of lens flare and CGI yes so hopefully they don’t mess this film up.
http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-vii-set-to-roll-cameras-may-2014.html
Kev
The Hollywood Reporter reports that “12 Years A Slave” star, Lupita Nyong’o is in talks for a major female lead for “Star Wars Episode VII”. Her character is kept under-wraps for now but I heard a lot of rumors for a long while now that the leading character for “Star Wars Episode VII” will be a black female Jedi. That’s what I heard, look it up.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lupita-nyongo-meets-jj-abrams-688787
If it’s true that she’ll be playing a Jedi, Luke Skywalker will probably end up being her mentor/master, I bet. Will we see Lupita vs. Adam Driver’s villain character in light-saber battles???
“Star Wars Episode VII” is obviously looking for a younger cast but when will we ever get a confirmation where Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill are going to be in the film? I guess, JJ is just waiting for the right time.
I still haven’t seen “12 Years A Slave” yet but gonna get around to it soon.
Kev
Look like JJ Abrams finally found his main villain for “Star Wars: Episode VII”. Turns out that Adam Driver who is most famous for his role in the HBO TV show, “Girls”, is in negotiations to play the main villain for “Star Wars: Episode VII”.
Details on the villain is top secret for now but they hint that the villain will be similar to Darth Vader.
Glad they are using a new villain for Episode 7 instead of bringing Vader back. What will be the new villain’s name? Darth something? Will he be in a costume with cape and different helmet and all? Hope this villain won’t be a relative to Anakin ’cause that would be messed up.
When will JJ ever announce that Harrison, Mark, and Carrie is in the film or not? Everybody already knows they’re gonna be in it anyways so why the long secrecy for these three?
Kev
JJ Abrams says the script for “Star Wars: Episode 7” is done finally and they’re gonna go full steam ahead which I think he’s saying they’re gonna start filming soon. He’s also not gonna film the new Star Wars in IMAX as he claims that they are loud cameras and they are not right to do intimate scenes with which is kind of funny ’cause JJ used to be obsessed with IMAX but he doesn’t like IMAX anymore?
Anyway, I’m getting pretty skeptical of “Star Wars 7” after seeing “Star Trek Into Darkness”. Now that JJ has jumped aboard to write the script himself after the previous writer left, I don’t know how good the script is gonna be. The script to “Star Trek Into Darkness” was an absolute disaster so hopefully “Star Wars 7” won’t be the same. Since Lawrence Kasdan helped JJ with the script… maybe that’ll help make the script for “Star Wars 7” better but I don’t know. JJ maybe an okay film maker but his writing has problems. Hopefully, him and Kasdan will do Star Wars justice.
Yes, “Episode 7” will be full of CGI and lens flare indeed but I hope it’s a good story. Even though the script is done you can see that JJ is still being secretive on the plot. Is this movie a return for all the original Star Wars gang? Like everyone else, I’m expecting that too after JJ confirmed R2 the droid will be in it. Han, Leia, Luke, Lando, Chewbacca, etc. They’ll all come back.
Hopefully they leave the Ewoks out of it, though. I have a feeling “Episode VII” will leave right off from “Return of the Jedi”. Could “Episode VII” start off on Endor where “Jedi” left off?
I’m more interested on who the new villain is gonna be. Shouldn’t be Vader. Should be somebody new. A return of Master Palpatine is still possible, though. He could have survived that fall after Vader threw him off at the end of “Jedi”. I’m hoping “Episode 7” is gonna be good.
More on the story, here.
Kev
I’m probably one of the very few who is not even on instagram but I’ll probably make my way there at some point. For laughs, the Star Wars instagram posted a pic of Darth Vader taking a photo of himself with an Iphone…
Check it out, here.
Could this be a hint that Darth maybe returning to Star Wars after all? I can see “Episode 7” continuing the story of Anakin Skywalker ’cause that’s what these movies are about to begin with… they were never about Luke, really. Will James Earl Jones still be involved with Star Wars?
Kev
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