Star Wars Episode VII 2015 Cast Missing Wedge Antille, Denis Lawson Says ‘It Just Would have Bored Me’; Starts Shooting In Abu Dhabi Today
Star Wars Episode VII 2015 cast has a stellar line-up, but it unfortunately won't include Wedge Antilles, famed X-Wing pilot and veteran of the attacks on both Death Stars. Meanwhile, the movie started shooting in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday May 13.
Star Wars Episode VII 2015 will be missing Wedge Antille actor Denis Lawson, uncle of fellow Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor. Lawson revealed that he has turned down the role, told The Courier that: "I'm not going to do [Episode VII]. They asked me but it just would have bored me."
The 66 year old actor, who played X-wing pilot Wedge Antilles in all three films of the original trilogy, said that he had been approached by Disney.
He did not elaborate on why he had declined the part and it is unknown if his nephew, Ewan McGregor, will reprise his role as Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Star Wars Episode VII, the 2015 film, stars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson and Max von Sydow, with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker, reprising their roles from previous films.
It is planned to be the first of the third trilogy of Star Wars films, which will follow chronologically in the series 35 years after the movie Return of the Jedi. J. J. Abrams is directing the film. Abrams co-wrote the screenplay with Lawrence Kasdan, who was a co-writer on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Star Wars Episode VII cast and crew set up camp in the Middle Eastern nation's desert on Tuesday May 13th to film sequences according to Abu Dhabi's English newspaper The National. The report states that JJ Abrams and the Star Wars Episode VII cast will be filming at least until the end of the month.
Sources have told the newspaper that crews are just about done with some massive construction work on the production site that includes, "a 'whole world' having been built on an otherworldly salt lake at one location, a 'shuttle-like' spacecraft, a large tower, a 'big, centuries-old-looking market', something the crew are reportedly referring to as the 'alien house' and 10 to 15 'really fast buggies' powered by jet engines."
The film is scheduled for release on December 18, 2015.
