Episode VII Cast Announced

[Brandon Rhea]

http://t.co/ZJpJVsKNFG

It's official. The cast of Episode VII has been announced.

 

[Kiro]

Gollum is in Episode VII!

 

[Raif]

As is Bill Weasley

 

[Logan]

Gollum is in Episode VII!

As is Bill Weasley

A Harry Potter, LotR and Star Wars crossover?


omgyes

 

[Kiro]

You'll have Gollum in Hogwarts robes with a Lightsaber.

 

[Logan]

You'll have Gollum in Hogwarts robes with a Lightsaber.

Gollum-v-Dobby

The lightsaber duel of the century.

 

[Rom]

Smeagol has come to a galaxy far far away

:mongo: :charmed: :happy:

 

[Nor'baal]

He will just sit there stroking the Ashes Urn of the Emperor, and whispering ''My Precious......my precious.....'' in the background during the ending scene of the movie.

 

[Wing]

Wait a sec, where the hell is Lando at?

And there is a character named "Bubba Calrisisian"? That's a southern US nickname for people....

 

[Brandon Rhea]

My guess is that Lando will have a brief appearance, rather than being part of the main cast.

 

[Liam]

There can only be one black man in the galaxy at a time:nom:

 

[Nor'baal]

This is a total shot in the dark here, but with Max Von Sydow in the cast, I am thinking a possible Thrawn/Palpatine MK.2 story.

 

[Padmé]

There can only be one black man in the galaxy at a time:nom:

this

 

[Kiro]

My guess is that Lando will have a brief appearance, rather than being part of the main cast.

Lando could also have a large(r) part in the later movies, of course, like he did in the OT. This is just Ep VII, not the entire new Trilogy.

 

[Blaxican]

Lando will be around just long enough to explain why the Solo kids are brown.

edit- I think I may have made that joke on here already. If so, sorry.

 

[Kaeb]

Unknowns = Good.

Diversity of race and gender = good.

Return of many OG crew = potentially good, especially because Daniels has been quite vocal of his dislike of the prequels, among many others behind the OG films.

The talent = pretty damn good all things considered, though Fisher and Ford are still a worry of mine.


Abrams is a competent director, I wouldn't call him good but he's teetering on the edge of that description for me, but what he tends to lack is a really good script to work with. This could/couldn't be the project that proves me wrong, but all round, I'm not disheartened by this announcement at all.

 

[Liam]

I'm just super excited that Andy Serkis is in it. He's a great actor and director, and he'll do a great job with whatever mo-cap job they give him.

 

[Kaeb]

Serkis is great.

I've seen Domhnall in some stuff and he's pretty good, John Boyega was really good in Attack the Block, I liked how subtle he was, he was very much a 'power behind the eyes' kind of performer. His whole body seemed to exude a presence, you can tell he's very conscious and deliberate with his movements.

Adam Driver I know nothing of beyond the fact his name as circled the casting drain for awhile recently and Daisy Ridley seems to be almost a complete unknown which is great and almost of unheard of in major studio pictures nowadays. And Sydow has me thinking he could possibly be playing a villain.

And Oscar Isaac is just great.


Not to be the bearer of cold news here, but given how old most of this main cast is.....they better shoot these movies ****ing quick.

 

[Kaeb]

Actually, I completely misread a different article.

I wish there were waaaay more women in the movie, my bad.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I also wish there were more women in the cast. I suspect that Daisy Ridley is going to be the Luke Skywalker character so that will somewhat make up for it, but I do wish that there was more gender representation.

The cast, on its own merits (rather than what could have been), is pretty solid. I'm enthusiastic.