Daisy Ridley has signed with Hollywood talent agency UTA amid “heated competition,” Deadline reports.
Today in Episode VII: Peter Mayhew praises film
→ Peter Mayhew talked a bit about Episode VII at a recent con, saying it “will be the best Star Wars film I will have seen” and about the day of the table read.
→ One man’s encounter with Mark Hamill at London’s Heathrow Airport. BEARD!
→ And in other 2015 films, behind Zack Snyder’s latest Star Wars mashup.
Today in Episode VII: What’s up with Hamill’s beard again? Who has the Falcon?
→ Rumors: It’s Friday and Da7e at Latino Review is speculating his heart out, with the addition of some possible spoilers regarding Mark Hamill’s beard and who actually has the Millennium Falcon.
→ Meanwhile, Mark Hamill and family were in Liverpool checking out some Beatles stuff.
→ Elsewhere, Daisy Ridley has been cut from The Inbetweeners 2, per Yahoo Movies.
SDCC: How Lucasfilm is handling canon and Legends
Shelly Shapiro, Dave Filoni and Pablo Hidalgo explain how Lucasfilm is handling canon and Legends. A nice roundup of quotes from the SDCC book panel.
Today in Episode VII: Another actor on Skellig Michael
→ Today word comes that [redacted] isn’t the only actor filming scenes on Ireland’s Skellig Michael. [Redacted] is there as well, per The Movie Bit – just as some suspected due to the fuzzy paparazzi pics the other day. This is supposedly the third and last day of filming on the island. Making Star Wars has a buddy in the area.
→ Meanwhile, some WWE guy, Sheamus O’Shaunessy, is apparently also hanging out in Ireland and double negativing over Darth Vader. Okay then. (Also, if we must take this seriously, well, I’ll just leave this over here.)
→ Not Episode VII, but close enough: Spin-off screenwriter Gary Whitta is totally down with writing a Star Wars novel.
→ And even more tangentially, sequel actors Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson have nabbed some more high profile gigs.
Today in Episode VII: Skellig Michael no-nos, Harrison Ford’s leg sighted, Simon Pegg and the wig. Again.
→ The Irish Coast Guard have set up a two-mile exclusion zone around Skellig Michael, which means only the authorized are getting in. Too bad, so sad, no more set paparazzi.
Meanwhile, the international culture and heritage agency Unesco has asked for a report on the film shooting at the island, which could disrupt the breeding season of rare birds on the island.
→ Harrison Ford spotted walking sans cane in Santa Monica yesterday. You can’t tell him what he can’t do, internet.
→ Karen Gillan is talking about her wig again. This time, we learn that we’ve seen the wig already! At Comic-Con. In 2013. So… It has retractable bangs? I’m so confused.
→ Is Simon Pegg insinuating that he’s in Episode VII… But his face isn’t? Read it how you will. (Maybe he donated a wig?) My call: Protocol droid.
One big happy something: Dispatches from the Episode VII cast
Okay, so THAT was adorable. Again. Below the cut, BOYEGAMAN, birds, and movie night.
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Episode VII cast and crew are on Skellig Michael
The Movie Bit reports that J.J. Abrams, crew and at least one actor (who I won’t name for the particularly spoiler-wary) have arrived on Ireland’s Skellig Michael to begin three days of filming. They’re expected to be there through Wednesday. Getty Images has photos of the arrivals. Stalkertastic! (via)
Rian Johnson talks Star Wars, briefly
“The thought of it made me so completely joyfully happy, ” Episode VIII writer/director Rian Johnson told podcast fans in Chicago Saturday night, “I wanted to to play in this world, of literally the first movie my dad put me in the car to see.” (via)
Johnson still hasn’t been officially confirmed by Lucasfilm – perhaps understandably, given where we are in the production of Episode VII – but there’s not much doubt at this point.
SDCC: Kevin Smith talks about his Episode VII set visit
Video: Kevin Smith talks about his Episode VII set visit. Because of course he does.