(Newswire.net — April 29, 2014) Bournemouth, DORSET — Disney who bought Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion will release Star Wars:Episode VII late next year and this film will have action that is said to be propulsive with new characters and new worlds for the audience to enjoy in this saga.
Today director JJ Abrams said “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.”
The production of Episode VII will take place in the United Kingdom and will start shooting at Pinewood Studios, near London, in May.2014. This will be the fifth star Wars movie to be shot in the UK.
The members of the original film Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker are joined by Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker will also return as C-3PO, Chewbacca and R2-D2 respectively.
Abrams said: “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.”
This film forms the first part of the planned third trilogy of Star Wars films, following chronologically in the series 35 years after 1983’s Return of the Jedi.
This film will be made to be similar to the original Star Wars trilogy as it will be shot by cinematographer Daniel Mindel using Kodak 5219 35 mm film and the emphasis will be the use of real locations and scale models as opposed to the use of computer generated images.
All of the previous Star Wars films have been box office successes and Disney will be hoping Episdoe VII will be the start of another successful trilogy of movies for fans both young and old.
Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27210448
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_VII
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/04/27/star-wars-clues-carrie-fisher-harrison-ford-mark-hamill-in-london-as-new-trilogy-is-set-to-begin/