Jedi News quotes a source who tells them that Disney has recently signed a 5-year deal with Pinewood Studios. There’s a new soundstage under construction at their main facility west of London:
Some of the people there are calling [it] the new Star Wars stage. Apparently the Disney deal is for multiple movies and security has started to be tightened up.
From what my friend said, a lot of the construction workers were openly calling it the Star Wars stage.
Pinewood Studios’ main facility is in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Several James Bond movies have been shot there – their most famous stage is the 007 Stage, built for The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977.
It may also be noteworthy that Pinewood recently announced that they’ll be opening a facility in the States, near Atlanta.
Marvel confirmed that Guardians of the Galaxy would be filmed in London, so with the filming of these movies coinciding, it might be for GOG. However, EpVII would need large stages, so would we have dual sci-fi movies filming?