Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

[Havok]

Portman:

• 1996 Mars Attacks!
  1996 Everyone Says I Love You
  1996 Beautiful Girls
  1995 Heat
  1994 Léon: The Professional

McGregor:

• 1998 Velvet Goldmine
  1997 A Life Less Ordinary
  1997 The Serpent's Kiss
  1996 Emma
  1996 Trainspotting

McGregor's list is way longer, but those are the most popular.

[Havok]

Could someone post picture of these people... except Sydow. Everyone knows MING THE MERCILESS!

[Havok]

Also, could a mod split the casting news into it's own thread? I think that would be better for the conversation.

[malguslover]

Daisy Ridley and John Boyega


Adam Driver



Oscar Isaac

Domhnall Gleeson

and of course


Andy Serkis

[applejack]

Curious who van Sydow is going to play.

to me he screams old imperial officer

Or he could be the Chancellor/President of the New Republic.

[The Romulan Republic]

That might be Leia. It would make sense due to her age and her experience as a senator/princess.

[Iroscato]

One of the reasons I'm looking forward to Andy Serkis being cast more than any other actor in that list - while most people know him from his work as Gollum and King Kong, my favourite role of his is in Sugarhouse, a fairly low-budget british film in which he plays a psychotic drug baron.

[Dartzap]

£2 says any jobbing British actor/ress who has left GoT will in the new trilogy at some point. I would recommend Attack The Block for those who want to see John Boyega in action. Quite the antihero in that. You, uh...may need the subtitles on though.

[Dartzap]

Maybe I just don't follow British media enough, but I've never even heard of these new actors. Except Serkis, and only because they mentioned he played Gollum. I wouldn't have known his name otherwise.

EDIT: Which is not to say that's a bad thing, since the OT cast was pretty obscure in 1977 as well. I don't know if McGregor or Portman had much to their resumes before Episode I, or Christiansen prior to Episode II, either.

Most of 'em will be theatre regulars or jobbing around the TV dramas. None of em will be in the media you'd want to be reading anyway.

[Borgholio]

Probably not this simple, but I'm thinking Daisy = Leia's daughter and John Boyega = Lando's son.

[Lagmonster]

Any word on Billy Dee Williams?

[Mange]

Any word on Billy Dee Williams?

Nope, but this is apparently the principal cast. He could have a supporting role.

[Borgholio]

I wonder if they'll find a token role for David Prowse, since he can't be Vader anymore for obvious reasons.

[Darth Tanner]

I wonder if they'll find a token role for David Prowse, since he can't be Vader anymore for obvious reasons.

As George Lucas is still involved in the project I would doubt that... they 'don't get along'. Of course Disney might just tell George to shove it.

[JME2]

Any word on Billy Dee Williams?

Nope, but this is apparently the principal cast. He could have a supporting role.

Yeah, I hope Lando has some role.

I want to see more of the Love Commander (thank you, Aaron Allston) .

[Eternal_Freedom]

Any word on Billy Dee Williams?

Nope, but this is apparently the principal cast. He could have a supporting role.

Yeah, I hope Lando has some role.

I want to see more of the Love Commander (thank you, Aaron Allston) .

The Love Commander? I don't recall that one. If they include decent bits of the EU in EP 8 or 9 I'd love to see Wraith Squadron turn up.

[JME2]

It's a ship Lando used during the Legacy of the Force series:

"Hello! I'm Bescat Offdurmin, master of the private yacht Looooove Commander!

It's such a perfect name and it fits so well for Lando.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Oh yes now I remember

[JME2]

And Allston wrote that line so well that I can practically hear Williams delivering it.

[JME2]

Just realized Dennis Lawson's not on that casting list, so no Wedge.

Damm.

[Mange]

Just realized Dennis Lawson's not on that casting list, so no Wedge.

Damm.

Given Denis Lawson is quite negative when it comes to Star Wars, I'm not surprised (he turned down a cameo in ROTS). However, this is only the main cast, so it's possible that Lawson could appear in a supporting role (but I don't hold any hopes).

[Lagmonster]

I bet most of the people who only ever saw the films wouldn't have a goddamn clue who Wedge was. His role was important, but his character was very, very small.

And he spent much of the films under a helmet and in the dim lighting of a cockpit. They could recast him in a nanosecond and nobody would be the wiser outside of the geek community, who generally aren't happy with anything you do for them anyway, no matter how many millions of dollars you spend on them.

[Borgholio]

They could recast him in a nanosecond and nobody would be the wiser outside of the geek community

Funny you should mention that, they already did. Wedge was played by one actor in the Death Star briefing scene, and by another actor whenever you see him in the cockpit of the X-wing. No, really!

[Darksider]

Just realized Dennis Lawson's not on that casting list, so no Wedge.

Damm.

Given Denis Lawson is quite negative when it comes to Star Wars, I'm not surprised (he turned down a cameo in ROTS).

Didn't he also try to convince Ewan Mcgregor (His nephew) not to take the part as Obi-Wan?

Anyways, I sincerely doubt Wedge would appear in the new movies. Yes he was in Ep IV-VI, but he's basically an EU character. His personality, back story, and character arc are solely products of the Expanded Universe.

[JME2]

Didn't he also try to convince Ewan Mcgregor (His nephew) not to take the part as Obi-Wan?

He did, but McGregor ignored him.

Anyways, I sincerely doubt Wedge would appear in the new movies. Yes he was in Ep IV-VI, but he's basically an EU character. His personality, back story, and character arc are solely products of the Expanded Universe.

True. It's easy to forget that Wedge's prominence in the fanbase owes less to the movies and more the X-Wing books.